I AM SONICBIDS.

Yes, ladies and gents!

The Sonicbids advertising extravaganza is days away from going live, and we've been given the chance to show you, our devoted friends and fans, a sneak preview of the viral explosion that is about to take over the musical underside of this here internet.

Click on over to I AM SONICBIDS and click on your favourite band (clearly, that's us, remember) to see an excerpt from the interview I did with them.

Online is only about a fifth of it though. The campaign will also take in TV and Radio, Free CD distribution etc - as well as putting in appearances at all major music festivals and conferences over the next year. And, of course, we'll be performing at all of the ones we can get to.

This is - I assure you - going to be a huge year for the JLB. The new EP is all but finished pre-production, the band has re-energised, rejuvenated and virtually reinvented itself - and we're about to go, as good old Shakespeare wrote, "Once more unto the breaches, dear friends, once more."

Joel x

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The Queen West Art Crawl Festival

Hey there boys and gals!

The JLB is proud to announce that we will be playing the Queen West Art Crawl on Saturday, September 13th. The night will be headlined by former Canadian Idol Ryan Malcolm's band, Low Level Flight. We take the stage at 5pm out on 1325 Queen St. W. between Cowan and Dunn avenues.

It's an amazing festival - for those who haven't been, it's a multi-disciplinary celebration of the arts in all forms and includes installation art from 10 of Canada's finest, along with many more things to brighten your day!

We'd love to see you there, and we genuinely look forward to a great gig in the sunshine!

All my love,

Joel x

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WE ARE THE SONICBIDS POSTERCHILD!

Good afternoon boys and girls!

I just wanted to tell you all that the JLB has just become the poster-band for Sonicbids.com - that means our faces and music will grace every flyer, CD, announcement etc that Sonicbids makes over the coming 12 months - internationally.

This is about the biggest opportunity this band has ever had. Sonicbids advertises extremely aggressively worldwide, and has a reach to labels, music executives and your average music listener that truly dwarfs what any promotional company could provide - at any price.

This is incredibly exciting news for us - and I can assure you, you wil be seeing an AWFUL lot of us in the coming year.

Joel x

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Digg us!!

Hello Everyone!

The wonderful people at Radio Indy have gone a step further than just doing their amazing job at publicity and promotion - they've reviewed Every Street Corner and put it just about everywhere on the web that you can post such things!

One of my personal favourite websites, Digg.com has featured our review - but we need a few more people to "Digg" us in order for us to receive a little more exposure from the site!

If you've got a spare minute, pop along to the link below, have a read of the review, and click the link that says "Digg It!" - the more people that do, the more people Digg will show the review to - and hence we move further forward in our aim to take over the world!

LINK: http://digg.com/music/Radioindy_Reviews_Every_Street_Corner_by_Joel_Lightman_Band

As always, we appreciate every second you spend doing stuff on our behalf - do feel free to walk around with a warm fuzzy feeling of general JLB goodwill!

Love,

Joel xx

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28th in the Myspace Canadian Music Charts

Well, what a surprise!

According to the Myspace Music Charts, the JLB is the 44th most popular Indie band in Canada. Clearly, being Myspace, that means nothing at all - but it really could mean something if we keep heading up those charts. I'm sure riches aplenty await those who make it to the first page, otherwise known as the top ten!

So, we'll keep promoting away, if you keep listening - we might just get there!

All my love,

Joel x

PS - As of today, 20th May 2008 - the JLB is officially at 2 in the Canadian Myspace Acoustic Chart, 4 on the Indie Chart and 17 in the pop chart! Thank you all for listening - keep it up! Joel x

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Singer Universe top 5 Vocalist!

Hey everyone!

Just a quick note to say that my vocals on ¨Believe¨ have been selected as one of the top 5 of the year by Singer Universe magazine. It..s obviously a wonderful honour and something the band and I are rightly very proud of. That song very much encapsulates the way I think about this industry, so it is truly wonderful to be honoured like this by a very respected and long-standing company like this one!

You can listen top the song and see the details at http://www.singeruniverse.com/competitionwinner43-123.htm

Scroll past the ultimate winner, and you..ll find us in second place!

Here..s to more accolades this year!

Joel x

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I’m going on an adventure . .

Ah, glorious friends of my band and I,

I am off for a month - a month where I will have no internet connection, no cell phone - in fact, I will have thrown off every trapping of the 21st century. Where will I be that will relegate me to such a truly neanderthal technological state?

The Amazon Rainforest.

With my younger brother, I am going to trek into the Ecuadorian side of the Amazon, staying with a couple of tribes, living in hammocks and avoiding maneating predators.

Why?

Because I want to do something that very few westernised people have done. I want to do something that will force me to disconnect from the world and live for life - for experience, for each day as it dawns. Yes, the thought gets me all wrapped up in trite epiphets and purple prose. I’m incredibly excited.

So, for a month, I will not be here. I can’t answer your emails, accept your friend requests, approve your comments or do any of those things that make me your Joel.

So, don’t get frustrated - I will get back and I will catch up with you all.

Until then, I remain,

Your intrepid piano player!

Joel x

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An article about us!

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Bloggers World Championship of Online Poker!

Not particularly music related, this one!

Yes, on October 14th, I'll be playing in the Bloggers World Champinoship!

Wish me luck!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 3083370

Joel x

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John Lennon Songwriting Competition!
Category: Music

Hey Everyone!

Just a short note to let you all know that the song "Walking Backwards" has been nominated in the pop category for the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. That's obviously quite the honour, and even though the results of the competition don;t come out until March next year, we wanted to let you know!

More gigs and songs on their way - we're going to have a new EP in the near soontime!!

Joel x

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