Tempus fugit.
Pictured: me, feeling old.
When I first pitched The Trunk, it was little more than a pet project, something to keep me writing and hold me to some kind of schedule during the stressful final year of my degree. Since then, BEM has released fifteen new albums, I've graduated, and we've had some time to experiment a little with the format of this thing. While I'm overall pretty happy with where it's ended up, I do think The Trunk can be better. So this week, instead of looking back as we often do, I'd like to look forward and talk about some of what we're hoping to bring to this blog in the weeks and months to come.
More Interviews
Thus far, The Trunk has interviewed Matt Stevens of The Fierce and the Dead, Louis Smith of Mothertongue, David Elephant, CEO, and, um, itself. These pieces are, unsurprisingly, some of our most-viewed content - they're exclusive insights into the creative process, and they're always fun to conduct and publish. They're also the sort of thing we really couldn't publish on the Facebook page alone, so they represent The Trunk at its best and most useful.
I think it's only reasonable that we do a few more. Now that I'm out of university, I have a lot more free time and brainspace to dedicate to preparing questions and planning interviews in advance, which was always the main obstruction to getting them done. We've got some new material in the works which is definitely worth talking about, but nobody can do that better than the artists behind it.
More Participation
The recent Talking Point posts have been unexpectedly successful - we knew we'd get a few responses, but we've generated some genuinely interesting discussions, and it's great to see our audience pitching in and having their say. So we'd like to do a little bit more of that.
We're still experimenting with what works and what doesn't for this - our survey didn't get many responses at all, but opening a more freeform discussion went a lot better, so that's what we're going to stick to going forward. Talking Points will continue as a semi-regular feature, probably a little less regular than From the Vaults (which will keep going strong until we run out of albums to cover, which, at the rate we're putting them out, seems unlikely to happen anytime soon), but we're also looking into a few new kinds of content. Stay tuned!
A New Look
The Trunk doesn't look half bad at the moment, but I still can't help but feel that something's missing. We don't have the logo, we don't really have any graphics at all, and the whole thing just feels a little bit spartan. With that in mind, we're hoping to jazz it up a bit soon. I have a redesign planned which will keep the fairly minimal aesthetic we have at the moment but hopefully bring a splash of Bad Elephant verve too, and I'm going to stop talking now before I spontaneously turn into a wedding planner or something.
I can also tell you that I'm doing a little bit of work on the Facebook page too... keep an eye out for that when it arrives.
And... that's about it. Here's to another year of Trunk action!
Status Update
Dial, now fully tracklisted and including a preview track in 'Consider Her Ways', will be released in just under three weeks. Get yer preorders in now.
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