PRESS RELEASE PLEASE READ IF ANY OTHER BANDS HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEMS WITH THE COMPANY BELOW PLEASE CONTACT ME THANKS debz@headfirstentertainment LOVEBITE AND SPECTRA RECORDS PART WAYS (14 August 2014 - Birmingham, UK) Young British hard rock upstarts Lovebite have parted ways with the American label, Spectra Records, without releasing their debut album via the company, despite signing with them and delivering masters of their Lock N Load album over a year ago. We were getting really frustrated with the whole situation and we werent sure what to do, explains frontman, Jonny Sparks. We signed a management deal with a US based company called Head First Entertainment about three months ago and they looked at our record contract and started asking questions of the label. We had our release date pushed back repeatedly for no good reason and we werent getting valid answers. We were required to pitch in quite a bit of money for a publicity campaign back in January and we really didnt see a lot of results from that. And that was the beginning of the end, really. The bands manager, Dave Tedder, chimes in: Pushing back the albums release date so many times for the reasons I was given was bad enough, but when I saw the press report they sent, that was pretty much the final straw. Included in the report were outlets such as The Today Show, David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, Conan OBrien and other TV shows that made no sense, as well as UK alternative magazines such as Q, Mojo and the like. Now a lack in judgement is one thing but when I saw the magazines Sounds, RAW, Select and Vox on the list it quickly became obvious that part of the list was fabricated. None of those magazines exist anymore! Doing some research I found that they claim to have gotten no as a response from close to twenty publications that no longer exist and some of which stopped printing as far back as the 1970s. I sent my concerns over, asked them to explain things and they sent an eMail to Jonny Sparks with a termination notice saying that I was harassing them. Free of their contract now, Lovebite will have Lock N Load available on iTunes in the next few weeks and physical copies of the album will be available on Amazons various sites around the world, as well as having some brick and mortar distribution opportunities available throughout the UK and parts of Europe. In the meantime, the band continues to write and demo songs for their sophomore release which should see the light of day sometime in 2015. Relevant Links: lovebiteofficial facebook/lovebiteofficial
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:40:31 +0000