Support

How this gets paid for

Nobody funds this. I do.

I run a marketing company called Social Spark, and the profit from it pays for all of this — the recording, the artwork, the distribution, the fourteen songs sitting on this site. There is no label and no advance, which I am glad about most days, because it means nobody gets to tell me the album should be one genre.

So when people ask how they can support the music, I find the honest answer slightly awkward: I would rather you got something out of it too. Everything below is a real exchange. None of it is a donation, and if none of it is useful to you then that is genuinely fine — the music is here either way.

  • Free

    Mention us to someone

    The cheapest thing on this page and not the least useful. Most of our work arrives because somebody passed a name on. If you know a business that needs marketing help, that sentence is worth more than it sounds.

    Social Spark
  • If you run a business

    Work with us

    This is the actual job, not a favour. Marketing, content and websites for small businesses. If you need that anyway, you may as well need it from someone whose album you have just been listening to.

    What we do
  • A tool we built

    Clearspace

    A workspace that files what you put into it and then argues with you — it questions a claim when your own records contradict it, rather than agreeing with everything. There is a free preview if you want to see what it makes of your site.

    clearspace.thesocialspark.co.uk
  • If you liked this one

    A website like this

    I built this site. If you want one, the studio shows you concepts for your business before you commit to building anything — so you can see it first and walk away if it is not right.

    design.thesocialspark.co.uk

And the one that costs nothing at all: listen to it, and tell one person if it does something for you. That is the part I actually can't buy. The songs are here.