Hello to you! Thanks for coming in and having a look at what we’re up to.

RMG are recording their 4th studio album and we are asking you to pre-purchase it so we can make it! We’re lucky to have fans; seriously dedicated, joyous, fun loving fans, that regularly turn up to our shows and sing along, clap, dance and collect our music.

Here’s a bit of the back story:

Round Mountain Girls have been together for about 10 years. It’s only been in the last 6 years that we have begun to travel, hit larger festivals and record seriously. We began just wanting to get together at the local pub and play a gig every month. 

A major turning point for RMG as a band was scoring a slot at Bluesfest in 2010, one of Australia’s most prestigious festivals. We went from playing small pubs to massive stages and it was then we decided to really go for it, as the rush from performing alongside some of our heroes was too much to resist. We were then accepted into more festivals and so began the life as RMG as we know it. 

We have been blessed to have been able to travel all over the country, performing at major festivals and meeting new people. People seem to like our music, so we want to keep making it. However, Australia is a huge country and after 10 years, we are still relatively unknown outside of the NSW East Coast. This is both problematic and exciting. 

To record our last 2 albums cost about $20,000 per album. We put all of our gig money into the RMG account and saved to be able to make them. Thankfully, people who then saw us at festivals, gigs or online, bought our stuff and we’re now about even again! Hence, our last album was in 2013. A change of tack sees us asking for people to pre-purchase the new album to allow us to get it out quicker and promote it properly, so that we can spread the RMG love further and wider.

New material is bubbling, ready to bring to the boil. We’re very excited about what we have in store. The Constant Rhythm is the first song we’ve recorded for the new album (and our first chart success), and we aim to have another 9 or 10 finished, road-tested and recorded by the end of the year. 2016 is a “re-coiling” year for RMG as we work this new material. With your help 2017 will be our best, biggest and mountain-love filled year ever!!

“Round Mountain Girls have an insanely infectious bunch of songs - as insane as the mix of characters in the band - and it’s impossible not to be caught up in their infectious Celt-country blend of roots music. I defy you to sit still!!’ 

Rusty Thorpe—Bluesfest Touring and Marketing Manager, Australia.

We would love to raise enough through Pozible to record, master, press the CD;

• Studio hire - Music Farm, Byron Bay = $3500
• Engineer - Mr Paul Pilseniks = $9000
• Mastering - Mr Paul Blakey, 12th and Vine Post, Gold Coast = $1100
• Pressing @1000 copies - Music Media, Brisbane = $2000

    Physical costs = $15,600

Other costs we will have include;

• Artwork - Michelle Bilson, Big Mozie Designs = $700
• Postage for approximately 1000 copies = $2000
• Pozible and Credit Card fees = $1200
• Publicist - Graham Ashton of Footsomp Music (November 2016 to June 2017) = $6000. This is essential to promote the album and allow us to raise profile. 
• Video clips - TBC = $3000 per track. Essential to promote our new stuff.
• Advertising in newpapers, magazines, street press etc = $1000

This will be ontop of travelling, accom, fuel while gigging over the next 8 months including the Album Launch Tour!

    Other costs = $13,900

So basically, our 4th Album will cost between $25000-$30000. If we can just reach the costs for the physical copies, that will go a massive way in helping us achieve our dreams. 

It's a funny business! In the end, we get what we pay for. The people we've mentioned above are some of the best in the business, great people to work with and are just as passionate about music as ourselves.

We are hopeful people will pre-purchase the album for $25. Our 3 main challenges are;

1. not reaching our $15600 target. If we can't reach the target, nothing happens and no money exchanges hands between us and Pozible and you guys. This will mean, unfortunately, we will revert to releasing just one or two songs as we save the money. That will be fine but not as good!
2. funding the other costs such as publicity, advertsing and video clips. As we are a travelling band, we have a lot of costs. Its will be a matter of finding a balance between gigging and releasing.
3. having a banjo player in the band

Thank you for reading this, for coming to our gigs, for sending us encouraging messages, liking our Facebook and Instagram stuff and buying our CD’s and T-Shirts. It’s people like you that help keep live music alive and we can’t do it without you.

Please contribute, share with friends to help us make our 4th album

FOLK ON!

Love

Chris³, Rabbit and Francois