Red Trees saga hits World Wide Web |29 August 2009

Following hot on the heels of the international release of the band’s video clips on YouTube and Intelvision, the band has launched its own interactive site on the World Wide Web: www.theredtrees.com.

The site features free access to several key tracks from the band’s debut album, speciality pages from each of the band members, photographs, videos and links to the band’s YouTube, Facebook and MySpace sites.

Additionally, in a cutting-edge development for a modern music group, the band’s home page will feature a regularly updated real-time biography of the life and times of the band (written by the band members themselves) which fans will be able to add comments to daily in the form of a live online blog.

Red Trees spokesman Julio Godley said: “The band has always been a communal project so it’s nice that friends and fans will now have the chance to become a regular part of the show. We’re pretty pleased with how it’s all coming together right now and are very curious to see how the public will react. What we are trying to do is totally cutting edge.”

The band aims to captivate fans with the saga and from there (via a combination of research, hard work and leveraging through social networking sites Facebook, MySpace and Pure Volume) to develop an international fan base of 50,000 members over the course of the next two years. This will enable the band to sustain itself commercially from within Seychelles, with or without the need for major record company backing. 

Meanwhile, singer Pat Flynn has just returned from a trip to South Africa where he met music business players and helped the band’s producer (former David Bowie/Boy George/Live producer) Neal Snyman to finalise mixing of the band’s debut album The Race to the Bottom.

While in South Africa, Pat was told by the band’s producer and manager of interest by several indie record label owners (contacts of the band’s producer) in possibly signing the band to an international record deal.

The Red Trees hope by the end of this week to be presented with the master copy of their debut album, copies of which will be made available to the music-buying public both in hard and digital downloadable format.

The band will play two free shows at the Regatta this weekend, the first at 7pm today and the second at 3pm tomorrow afternoon.