Speaker 1: Evening everyone. Greg here, I'll keep this as short and
Speaker 1: sweet as I can. She and I have been making
Speaker 1: midnight chats for just over four years now. The series
Speaker 1: we've just finished has taken us into the nineties in
Speaker 1: terms of the amount of episodes we've done, and we
Speaker 1: love making it. If you're a regular listener, you'll have
Speaker 1: heard us plug Loud and Quiet. Loud and Quiet is
Speaker 1: the independent music magazine, website, live events thing that we
Speaker 1: do alongside making this and other podcasts. It's where the
Speaker 1: idea for this podcast came from. And like so many
Speaker 1: other people in the creative industries, the coronavirus pandemic has
Speaker 1: hit business pretty hard day to day. Most of what
Speaker 1: we do is supported by advertising. In the music world,
Speaker 1: with venues shut tours, postponed, festivals, off releases, pushback. We
Speaker 1: saw all of our revenue you disappear almost instantly, and
Speaker 1: when this is done, we know that it's going to
Speaker 1: take a while for it to return, if it does
Speaker 1: at all. The Loud and Quiet started as a homemade
Speaker 1: music scene in a spare bedroom fifteen years ago. It's
Speaker 1: lasted this long because of passion, a lot of hard work,
Speaker 1: and bit of luck. Along the way. For years, we've
Speaker 1: known that the advertising funded model that we've got is
Speaker 1: vulnerable and undependable, which is why we've been trying to
Speaker 1: build up our subscribers the past few years and that's
Speaker 1: been a really massive help. But the truth is we
Speaker 1: don't have enough yet to make up the shortfall, support
Speaker 1: what we do and secure our future. So to get
Speaker 1: to the point today, we've announced a new subscriber bundle.
Speaker 1: It's available all over the world wherever you're listening to this.
Speaker 1: It's fifty pounds for the whole year, and for that
Speaker 1: you'll get every new magazine that we've a brand new
Speaker 1: special edition fifteen years of Loud and Quiet zine special
Speaker 1: that we've been making in lockdown, downloadable digital editions of
Speaker 1: the magazine, super cool bookmark, a die cast logo pin,
Speaker 1: plus our subscriber playlist that we make, and entry into
Speaker 1: our monthly draw to win our album of the month
Speaker 1: on final If you go to Loud and Quiet dot
Speaker 1: com you can see it, and I think it looks
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So if you've enjoyed listening to midnight chats,
Speaker 1: or want to support independent music journalism or discover some
Speaker 1: new music, please do consider becoming a subscriber funds not
Speaker 1: just the magazine but us making this podcast too, so
Speaker 1: please check it out. It's Loud and Quiet dot com,
Speaker 1: and thank you for listening.