Here is the Info and please help:
First of all, we’d like to say that we consider ourselves one of the luckiest bands we know to be able to do what we do. Last year we crossed the US several times, went to Canada three times and did a month in Europe to packed houses. 2013 promises to be even more fun and busy for us with two tours already booked for Europe, and several multi-week tours across the US and Canada.
Our current record “In Your Brain” has been extremely well received both here and abroad and we are very thankful and happy with how things are going on the creative side and as far a bookings are concerned, so we’d like to send out a big THANK YOU!! to all you folks who have come to the shows or have bought our records and merchandise.
As with adding stress to any system, the upswing in our activity (we were on the road 240 days last year and will have at least that many travel days this year) has made us painfully aware of the weakest link in the Monophonics road show – it’s our bus.
It’s a fact of life that, while being a musician is incredibly rewarding in many many ways, financially is not often one of them. Even though we are incredibly busy, ironically, at year’s end, we haven’t got much to show for it.
The largest single reason we’ve identified for our current financial situation is the fact that with repairs and gasoline, we spent well over $100,000 on our bus in 2012.
Should this campaign turn out well and we are able to get a Turbo-Diesel Mercedes Sprinter for 2013, we will save $60,000 in fuel alone, and that will go a LONG way toward getting us to our (and every musician’s) goal of actually making a living doing what we love so much, plus, it will have A WORKING HEATER AND AIR CONDITIONING!! We just drove overnight from Colorado to Wyoming and it was 17 degrees inside the bus!
Please give what you can. The rewards you see on the right are very cool, and we look forward very much to getting them to you, but there’s another reward that everyone who contributes will get: Our undying gratitude. We will know who you are and we invite you to please come introduce yourselves at shows so we can thank you personally.
With love and gratitude,
~ Monophonics
Kickstarter link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/356819612/we-need-a-new-bus?ref=live
Monophonics Page Here at HDR: https://www.hdrbanddirectory.com/monophonics/
