The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112553   Message #2404740
Posted By: Andrez
04-Aug-08 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: Anyone heard of AMMA (Australia)
Subject: RE: Anyone heard of AMMA (Australia)
Just wondering if Norman hasnt had a sex change operation and has now morphed into Lynda. Their writing styles are so similar.

Anyway, trawling the web as you do when looking up a scAmma I found this little gem about how they are promoting themselves at this site. This is a Canadian musician who I hope hasnt really taken up and "offers" that might have come his way. The link is as follows:

http://www.michaelgeorgeband.com/guestbook

It seems that they like to make comments in the guestbook of an artist trying to "impress" and big note themselves. I mean, look at the rubbish below, it dates from about 2006 I think:
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> Hi M & S ,
Thank you for the excellent music and information you forwarded to us.
I'm sorry if it has taken us some time to get back to you but we receive over 100 CD's every week and it takes some time to work through them all!
We listen to them all with a view to where the artist and music might best be placed if it is of suitable quality. Most is not of course!
As we are overseas in Europe, Asia and the USA frequently, office/studio time for listening to new material is also often limited. We have recently just returned from Russia and EEMC 2006 so are back on the trail for great music.
I have today had a good listen to your excellent offering and have this day replied in writing to you with a letter of offer.
You should receive this in the mail in the next 7 to 10 days.
We have affilliations and associations with over 60 international labels and are expanding all the time! Our work spans publishing, licensing, film and radio in many countries.
We also have several number one artist, Grammy award winning artists and gold/platinum award winning artists and writers in our catalogues/roster who we do regular licensing, publishing, sub publishing and publishing administration work for.
So please do give our letter of offer some serious consideration and we look forward to hearing more of you and your music in the coming months.

Kindest Regards,
Norman McCourt. (Director-Australian Music Marketing Abroad) (Director-Australian Radio Services) (Editor-An'R artist, repertoire and international licensing)
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All this from a company that doesn't even have a registered business name, let alone a website! Give us a break!

Cheers,

Andrez