@davejgiles.bsky.social
Musician: https://www.davejgiles.com Podcast producer.
In positive news, my new(ish) single 'Looking For A' got it's first spin on BBC Introducing last week.
Many thanks to @davegilyeat.bsky.social for playing it!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Now you have to take the bins out for every penalty shoot out
28.07.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m now older than John Lennon was when he was shot dead.
20.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I grew up reading everything I could about Project Apollo. But I lived through the Shuttle program. #16Sunsets by the original #13MinutestotheMoon team: @andrewl-b.bsky.social, @scirad.bsky.social + @davejgiles.bsky.social
& @richardcourtice.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
It really is!
19.07.2025 22:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks So Much to Dave Giles! 👍
The Space Shuttle podcast by Kevin Fong is called:
“16 Sunsets”
(10 episodes)
Premiered November 2024 and is now complete.
(Kevin Fong and his team did the amazing 1st two seasons of 13 Minutes to the Moon on Apollo)
(Screen grab from my Overcast podcast app.)
Entirely separate
18.07.2025 10:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The folks behind season 1 and 2 aren’t involved with season 3. They did their own shuttle podcast called 16 Sunsets. Not sure who is producing season 3 of 13 minutes but it’s not the same team at all. BBC owned the name of the podcast.
18.07.2025 10:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1More announcements soon :)
22.06.2025 12:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also doing an afternoon gig in September supporting Koo Koo in Kingston.
Tickets here: good-show.co.uk/events/2478
New tour announcement for Oct/Nov: Leeds, Manchester, Oxford, Newcastle, Glasgow and Birmingham. Playing with @ccampbellmusic.bsky.social and @dannygruff.bsky.social
Tickets already flying:
WWw.davejgiles.com/gigs
More being organised too!
1am updating gig listings with unannounced gigs because the venues want a ticket link.. always feels a bit naughty - what if people find out?
17.06.2025 00:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Leeds last night was delightful. Manchester tonight has just sold out :)
More gigs announced soon!
So sad to hear about Brian Wilson. Playing my Beach Boys records when I get home.
11.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There are so many other great book series and film franchises out there which don’t put money into the pocket of someone who is actively targeting my friends and people like my friends.
29.05.2025 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stop buying Potter stuff.
29.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Most definitely not!
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The person who lived here before us decorated the downstairs bathroom in a very quirky way. I’m so reluctant to change it but it’s really not aging well. Might need to hit some charity shops to get some more sheet music.
21.05.2025 14:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Drinking mince pie flavoured tea in May. Think that’s a win.
15.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooh fancy.
15.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What’s the essay on?
15.05.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0How’s anyone doing today? I’ll literally take any interaction please :)
14.05.2025 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Having a studio clear up at 2.50am - that means music is being made tomorrow.
14.05.2025 01:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The song for those who want to check it :D
open.spotify.com/track/42c1Qv...
screenshots from 3rd May
13.05.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I know the owner is a billionaire and billionaires are bad, but name a time in history when an unknown artist could get that much reach from a song without any marketing budget, radio or tv.
Perhaps I've not framed this as well as i had, but in my opinion Spotify is good for artists.
This was all done with zero marketing, a few social media posts from me and that's it. I was on holiday when I released the song.
13.05.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why do so many artists moan about this? Why is this not part of the story that we put out.
Sure the payment per stream is lower than we'd like it to be, but over 80% of those streams were from people who had no idea who i was until Spotify told them the song was there.
When you look at the breakdown of those streams and those listeners. 84% of them come from Spotify's algorithmic playlists or radios or autoplay.
At the end of April i got a message from Spotify saying I had 2753 listeners in April of which 2472 were new listeners.
And then something magic happened, on the Friday the Spotify algorithm got to work, and put the song everywhere it wanted to.
The first day had 880 listeners and then for about 8 days i had 400+ listeners a day.
Now 3 weeks on, I'm averaging just over 100 again. My monthly listeners is now 3800.
