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Wildhearts frontman releases triple-album after successful Pledge campaign
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 22 June 2012
The frontman of hard rock power pop outfit The Wildhearts, Ginger Wildheart, will release a new solo album next week after raising £200,000 via a fan-funding/pre-order campaign on PledgeMusic.
There will be two versions of the new record, a three CD edition called ‘555%’ and a single disk version called ‘100%’. The thirty tracks that appear on the full album were made available to the band’s ‘pledgers’ digitally during the Pledge pre-order campaign, and they were invited to vote on which tracks should make it through to the one disk version. The band will now work with Townsend Music on the proper release.
Commenting on The Wildhearts man’s use of his platform, PledgeMusic MD Malcolm Dunbar told CMU: “Ginger Wildheart is an artist who has always enjoyed a special relationship with his fans. They have demonstrated their continued loyalty to him by backing the campaign to the extent they have. ‘555%’ is a fantastic album and has real fan momentum behind it, which is a great endorsement of how PledgeMusic is able to empower artists”.
