We offer many ways to showcase and interact here at UK Music Jobs, and I thought I’d cover a little about sharing your music around the website, as well as featuring recent music added by some of our most active members.

As well as from appearing on your profile, recently added mp3s are also featured on our front page and all the key UK Music Jobs site pages – if you contribute regularly you are more likely to attract attention and earn new fans.

The members I have featured below are all fine examples of the value of keeping your profile up to date – adding mp3s, photos, videos, press cuttings and more will make your profile easy to search and attractive to other users and employers to read. Regularly adding info and media means that I am more likely to find you in our network – next time it could be your music shared here and across the UK Music Jobs online profiles!

UK Music Jobs member: Anna Burton

Recommended Listening: And Dance (Indie)
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UK Music Jobs member: Rebecca Hayes

Recommended Listening: From my chillout album Xemplify (Chill Out)
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UK Music Jobs member: Simon James

Recommended Listening: Wait For The Summer (Rock/Pop)
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UK Music Jobs member: Mike Hawkins

Recommended Listening: Guitar+BV’s: Tell The Blues I’ve Gone – The Flip Flays (Pop)
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UK Music Jobs member: Christopher Ransome

Recommended Listening: Stay – New track with Fear No Fish…. (Rock)
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UK Music Jobs member: Sulene Fleming

Recommended Listening: Stand Up (Dance)
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UK Music Jobs member: Jason Carter

Recommended Listening: One (Flamenco)
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UK Music Jobs member: Sandra Dangelo

Recommended Listening: Sandra Dangelo songwriting singing (Electronica)
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If you would like to be featured in future UK Music Jobs blog posts, then update your profile regularly and leave a message on my profile wall (another feature that you should use for networking – look out for a future blog post!)

Lee Jarvis.

Hey everyone,

We at UK Music Jobs are excited to start up a new promotion. If you are an unpaid registered member of Music Jobs and own a blog or website, you can get one month of paid membership for FREE. Don’t have an account yet? Sign up, and get your profile running for free, here!

How does it work?

If you are a registered UK Music Jobs member and you have a personal blog, this will be quite easy for you. Simply write in your blog about UK Music Jobs and include a link to our site. A couple of possible blog post ideas include a short or detailed description of the site, how Music Jobs has helped you in your job hunt, an informative wiki-like profile of our site, or you can write a review about UK Music Jobs.

If you don’t have a blog yet, there are plenty of free blog providers that you can join, including Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, LiveJournal, and many more.

Have a website, but no blog? No problem! Just write about us on one of your pages, refer people back to us, and link back to our site.

You can link to the UK Music Jobs Homepage (uk.music-jobs.com) , but it may be more useful for your readers if you linked to the jobs board page at http://uk.music-jobs.com/jobsboard.php. But, if you feel we have a page on our site more relevant to your readers, feel free to link back to that page instead (ie, the “About Us page“). (Remember, the link has to be clickable. To do this on most blogging platforms, highlight the text you want to make a link, click the icon that looks like a globe with a chain link in front of it, then press OK or DONE).

Once you have your blog post up, send us the following to ukmj_promo@music-jobs.com:

1. Your Name and UK Music Jobs username (click here to sign up for free)
2. Your website or blog’s URL with the posting about UK Music Jobs

Also, if you know any artists or anyone in the music industry that is not with Music Jobs currently, why not tell them about this promotion? It’s a great opportunity for non members to try out our service at no cost. Just have them sign up for a free account at the freelancer registration page to get started!

This promotion will last from today, August 6, 2009 until , September 6, 2009. Members who qualify for the free one month’s subscription will be contacted by email.

Thanks, everyone!
UK Music Jobs

Conditions and terms: URLs and links to UK Music Jobs must be clickable. Links with the “no-follow” tag in the HTML are not considered eligible for the promotion. Please allow up to three business days for approval. Link and info must be posted outside of UK Music Jobs. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other sites that use “no-folow” and framed browsing do not qualify. Only one free month subscription per member. Free month contingent on Music Jobs’s link presence for a minimum of 1 month on members’ blog/website.

Its been all over the news for the past few weeks and now members from UK Music Jobs are getting involved in the One & Other fourth plinth project in London.

Conceptualised by sculptor Antony Gormley, people from all over the UK have been invited to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings & Generals.  The person will become an image of themselves and a representation of the whole of humanity.

Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person will make the plinth all about them.  Individuals are allowed to use their alloted time as you see fit.

Lawrence Reed and his collaborative partner have composed a piece of music entitled ‘The Ebb of Acrophobia’.  Acrophobia is derived from the Greek ‘akron’ (peak) and ‘phobos’ (fear) is a fear of heights and is extremely common. Lawrence suffers with the condition so this composition is an attempt to reflect the state of mind and physical condition of the living sculpture on the plinth and, through score, signals and improvisation interpret his changing state where the outcome is largely unknown.

Lawrence has been advertising his project on UK Music Jobs and as a result a number of our musicians are heading down to take part.  Anyone is welcome to join in with the idea being that you can play without qualm or hesitation and have fun.  The pieces are instructional but in terms of guidance accuracy is not prerequisite.  All the musicians performing are reflecting the mood of the acrophobic on the plinth however the conductor will brief the orchestra 15 minutes before midday and before each new part of the composition.

For full details check out Lawrence’s website here - http://lawrencereed.com/

If you can’t make the actual event then remember you can watch the whole performance online on the One & Other website;

http://www.oneandother.co.uk/

On Thursday 12th March 2009, UK Music Jobs hosted their 2nd Oxjam event at East London’s legendary venue 93 Feet East. Over 180 people turned up to see the brilliant performances, enjoy a few beers and do their bit for a great cause.

First on stage were the scorching hot electro/pop band My Tiger My Timing, playing a full set including debut single ‘This Is Not The Fire’ produced by Andy Spence of New Young Pony Club fame. Oozing charisma with great tunes and and more musical talent than you can shake a stick at, MTMT kicked off proceedings with a bang.

Next up we had DJ/Musician Butcherd Beats, featuring guest vocalists Kelli-Leigh & A_Jazz, Mobo Award winning rap artist Wizdom from Green Jade, world class percussionist Beats De Vyne and European Break Dance Champion Bboy Jjui. The Butcher brought a touch of old skool Ibiza to 93 Feet East, mixing R&B, break beat and classic house along with dropping a pretty astonishing drum n’ bass track ‘Blind Reality’ which sent the crowd wild and confirmed Butcherd Beats as an artist of incredible range and talent.

Headlining our event were three sexy, sassy electro pop princesses, Red Blooded Women. Showering the adoring crowd with their trademark quips and banter, the girls launched into a stonking set including their single ‘Enjoy The Silence’ currently at number 12 in the UK commercial pop chart.

The total amount raised from ticket sales was a whopping £722 so thank you to all those who came down and supported the night.

See you next year!

The UK Music Jobs team.

Photos – Kate Khullar © 2009