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May 03, 2006 - Musician and entrepreneur Pete Wailes today announced the launch of The Music Challenge, a website and labour of love designed to show people everywhere that you don’t need to rob a bank to make it in the music industry. Aiming to write, record and release an album in just ninety days, and then sell five thousand copies, The Music Challenge is setting the bar high for all who will come after.
“Personally, it’s a little easier for me than most, in that I had the good fortune to study at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford,” Pete freely admitted. “But having said that, the contacts that I’ve made, and the knowledge that I’ve learned I got from getting out and meeting people, and from applying myself to what I do. I know not everyone has the connections and skills that I have, but they are things that they could get, if they wanted to, without too much hard work.”
Pete, who in the past has recorded two albums, is putting his music where his mouth is, and laying down the gauntlet.
“When I set out to do this, of course I wanted to make some money from it. But more than that, I wanted to show people that it can be done. There’s this myth that you have to be backed by a major label, and have enough money behind you to buy a small country in order to have any kind of success in the music business. I want to break that, and get people to realise that yes, the music industry is a business, but that music comes first.”
The Music Challenge site (www.themusicchallenge.co.uk) launched on the 1st April 2006, and has been quietly gathering interest ever since. Already, Pete has put together a band for the project, called Finding Here, and is being chronicled in The Music Challenge blog.
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