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CMEAS has booking opportunities at many British clubs and Arts Council funded venues.
Pubs are the backbone of live music in Britain. Almost every British band of note started in the national pub circuit. CMEAS books and promotes gigs at some of the friendliest, busiest, best ale & food serving jewels of musical iniquity the Isles can offer
Started in 2004, CMEAS is partnering with several local school districts to provide interactive musical workshops with local schools. This program is set to be a significant part of our UK events.
In addition to pub, club, and workshop events, CMEAS has teamed up with a private record label based in Devon that does superb 24 track live recording at the Palladium Club. CMEAS offers a full show recording as part of the UK events.
If you are a band at home with a solid gig base and want to play abroad, there will probably be a bands abroad that want to play your gigs too. CMEAS can facilitate such international (or national) gig swaps.
Starting in 2005, CMEAS will be creating a video record of the tour so that bands have both a sound and visual record of their trip, and hopefully a work of art that they can use on return to their native countries.
Plans in the works include a recording and site seeing tour in Costa Rica, blues and roots festivals in Romania, a weekend trip to Rio de Janeiro, the International Film Festival in Prague, a tour of Dutch cities, a tour of French vineyard parties, and an island hopping tour of the US and UK Virgin Islands.
There is a LOT of music available on this page. Although CMEAS is open to all genres for its events, the one ability that ties all these acts together is the "WOW" factor that combines superb musicianship and composition with originality and musical integrity. We always like to encourage potential participants of our events to check out some of the music on this page before they apply to get an idea of where our partiality lies.
2006 Demo CD
Track:
Artist:
Big Baby Ernie
Kalvin Koolidge
Cafe Bar 401
Meg Hutchinson
Wabash Cannonballs
Fluttr Effect
Gandhi
Convulsions
Brother Big Bad

2005 Recording Session at the Palladium Club

Starting in 2005, CMEAS occassionally pays for a live recording session during the tour.
Participating artists who wish to use the material from these sessions can contact us at info@cmeas.com.
Mudfunk (contact: info@mudfunk.com) Breaking Laces (contact: breakinglacesHQ@aol.com) Oh My God!* (contact: info@ohmygod.com)
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Hardest Year Garbanza Beans Hard Bargain
Loving You Forever Call You Home February 14th
Stay Awhile Born Again Unbearable Pagent
Dope Come To Shine
What's Going On God in Training  
Where They Belong Commie *Due to a voltage transformer meltdown on Oh My God!'s Leslie amp (subsequently resolved) the above songs don't represent OMG's overdriven material
Papa Was a Rolling Stone Get Up  
Living in the Bottle Geek In Love  
  Going Away  
  Rocking Chair  

2005 ARTIST COMPILATION

Some of the artists on the compilation are acts that CMEAS will be booking in the UK in addition to the main tour event and some are acts that sailed through our peer review and wished to be included on a demo audio given to the UK venues.

1. FunHouse Mirror Mother (Oh My God!) 8. Mother's Nightgown (Oh My God!)
2. Put You right (live) (Mudfunk) 9. Commie (Breaking Laces)
3. Rocking Chair (Breaking Laces) 10. Deep Inside (Johnson Principle)
4. Can't Help Myself (Steve Kouba) 11. It's Alright (Molasses)
5. Bourbon Lips (Dennis Legghio) 12. Dope (Mudfunk)
6. Going Down to Eli's (Wabash Cannonballs) 13. Boom (Breaking Laces)
7. Alone (Mudfunk) 14. Torture (Oh My God!)

Please note that the acts below often returned on subsequent CME (as it was known then) tours when we were based in Chicago for Chicago artists. Since Nov. 24th 2004 CMEAS has gone international and is only booking acts that pass comprehensive peer reviews. Any acts below may still receive booking assistance from CMEAS but will not be on any subsequent CMEAS events that have been opened to competitive online application.

2004 ARTIST COMPILATION DEMO
1. LIFE IS WICKED (MELISSA)
2. WATCH YOUR STEP (CONVULSIONS)
3. SWERVE (PALA)
4. WOLF WHISTLE (SCOTTISH)
5. SWEAR IT'S NOT YOU (CONVULSIONS)
6. REPRISE (PALA)
7. SWEET KISSES (MELISSA)
8. DON'T LISTEN TO ME (SCOTTISH)
     
2003 ARTIST COMPILATION DEMO
1. WOLF WHISTLE (SCOTTISH)
2. GIRL'S IS IN PAIN (MELISSA)
3. CHICAGO CHIC-A-GO-GO GIRL (CONVULSIONS)
4. HIDING OUT (GHETTOBILLIES))
2002 ARTIST COMPILATION DEMO
1. BOBBIE JEAN (PETE SPECIAL)
2. LARRY'S SONG (GHETTOBILLIES)
3. IF I KNEW (MELISSA ZIEMER)
4. KOWTOW (CONVULSIONS)
5. 109 (GARY YERKINS)
6. WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY (PETE SPECIAL)
7. VAGINA EYE (GHETTOBILLIES)
8. MY BETTER ANGEL (MELISSA ZIEMER)
9. PERCOLATIN' (CONVULSIONS)
10. VIRGINIA (GARY YERKINS)
11. APRIL'S HERE (JULEPS with GARY YERKINS and MELISSA ZIEMER)
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