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A collection of 75 posts

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Less than 5 percent of musicians make a living...

Update: Featured on The Guardian blog. Update 2: If you’re in the independent music sector you can still contribute to this important survey. It will take about 60 seconds, and we’re giving out prizes. Click here! Dizzyjam, the world’s leading direct-to-fan merch platform has conducted a survey

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Guest blog on MusicSupportedHere.com

Music Supported Here is a new movement from the Musicians’ Union. It’s a campaign for all musicians. It’s about the simple but important principle that musicians should not get ripped-off in the digital world. Neil from Dizzyjam was asked to write a guest blog for them. He wrote

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Buy your way into the charts!

Well, that seems to be the premise. New company Chartfixer promises to get your track into the charts. But at a cost. They claim to legitimately achieve this paying its users to download your tunes, which you obviously stump up for. I wonder how long it will take the various

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Everybody's a music maker

Here in Cardiff we recently had an amazing TEDxCardiff event with loads of great speakers. One talk stood out for us, and one that should be of interest to all our readers. Dave Haynes is the UK head of Soundcloud, a brilliant service for music makers everywhere. We love it,

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Ellie Goulding as a mouthpiece for X-Box?

We were invited along to the X-Box Reverb-sponsored Ellie Goulding gig a few weeks ago in Cardiff. It was in the recently opened Cardiff Arts Institute. Despite having reservations over the way the campaign had made several venues campaign against each other to be the “chosen” venue, potentially driving divisions

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Storm The Charts: Charity Competition

We’re teaming up with Storm The Charts to raise money for charity – Storm The Charts is an fantastic, ambitious grassroots campaign to get 40 different unsigned bands into the top 40, all in one given week. We’re pleased that here at Dizzyjam we’ll be supplying the official

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Spare Swn steward shirts

Try saying that 5 times in a row…. We were very proud to be one of the sponsors of last year’s amazing Swn festival. We printed these amazing shirts for them, but we have a couple left over that we’d love to let you guys have for free.

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Holy crap. It's musical heaven...

Yes, that’s right people. The musical collaboration we’ve all been dreaming of, and praying for, is finally happening. Jedward are teaming up with Vanilla Ice. You heard it here first. Unless you read this link with all the details before you heard it here, of course.

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Can you hear my shirt?

We like this. A lot. It’s a t-shirt with a brilliant soul playlist on it, that you can listen to via Spotify here. And you can buy it here. Ace.

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It's official......

Dizzyjam launch video from Dizzyjam on Vimeo. Thanks to everyone who’s got involved over the last few months. We’re stupidly excited about the developments we’re going to be bringing you early next year. So stay tuned. Hope you like the video. Clearly it’s influenced by the

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Christmas posting times

Santa’s got a fat load of Dizzyjam t-shirts to deliver over the coming weeks, but depending on where you are, you need to think pretty quickly about getting orders in*: South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Far East, Asia, New Zealand and Australia – Midday, Fri 4th December

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Women's t-shirts now available!

We’re pleased to announce that as of today, after lots of testing we can offer womens t-shirts on dizzyjam.com. This means we’re one significant step closer to moving out of beta and into… er, whatever comes after beta. If you’re an existing shop owner, you’ll

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Spotify for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung phones

Those Spotify fans among us will be very chuffed to hear that Spotify on the move is no longer just the preserve of iPhone owners. From today it’s available on a whole raft of other handsets. Check this out to find out if your handset is supported. We’re

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We're updating our genre list!

We need your help! What genres do you think we DEFINITELY need? It’s difficult striking a balance between making sure everyone’s catered for, and including every tiny sub-sub-sub-genre like “Deep-chicago-post-alt-folk-fidget-house”. Or something. So, here’s our far from perfect current list. What should we include. What have we

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Music Week article

We’re in Music Week! Click image to read article

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Thriller, 8-bit stylee...

This is fantastic. And kind of speaks for itself. Imagine Jacko’s Thriller made on a ZX Spectrum…. A few uesful music industry links for you. Here’s Buzzsonic’s Twitter and his website. Just a constant stream of links to really brilliant (and constantly relevant) industry links. And there’

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A video of some of the t-shirts we printed today

Some of the t-shirts we printed today from Dizzyjam on Vimeo. If the video above doesn’t work then just click this link…

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From The Basement

We couldn’t help but post this. What a brilliant site. Simple, effective, and beautifully shot in HD. Check out the Radiohead performance for starters. Click the image….

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Swn Festival Stewards T-Shirts

So, here are the T-Shirts we made as part of our sponsorship of this year’s Swn Festival. Nice eh? Swn Steward T-Shirts

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Women's T-Shirts

Well, there are nine lovely ladies around Cardiff currently testing out a variety of t-shirts for us. They include well known brands such as Fruit Of The Loom and Hanes. And some ones even we’ve never heard of before. When they’ve had them for a few weeks we’

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Swn Festival

We’re really chuffed, and very proud, to announce that we’re the official t-shirt sponsors of Swn Festival. Swn (it means ‘Sound’ in Welsh and is pronounced ‘soon’), is a fantastic city-wide festival that takes over Cardiff for a weekend every October and brings over 150 brilliant bands to

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Ladies t-shirts

Well, now we’re very happy with the quality of the men’s t-shirts we’re making serious moves to getting ladies shirts on the site. We’re ordering a load of different makes and types and distributing them amongst our female friends. Once we get the feedback, and we’

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Purple Radio rock Trafalgar Square

As part of Antony Gormley’s art project, Purple Radio‘s Myles actually broadcast for an hour from the 4th plinth. And he was wearing a Purple Radio tshirt, of course. Which you can buy from Purple Radio’s shop on Dizzyjam. Here’s some screengrabs we took from the

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Well, here we are....

So, we’re going to be posting on this blog on a regular basis. We’ve started selling t-shirts over on the main site, and everything’s going pretty swimmingly, thanks for asking. 🙂 Check us out at these other social meeja locations! * Pictures of our t-shirts * Our Twitter feed * Facebook

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Hello

Hi there – we’re not active on here yet – this is pretty much just a placeholder. Check back soon! We make T shirts for Bands, Music Venues and DJs. Our unique process means we can print as little as 1 super-high quality t-shirt and it will be affordable. We can