Final draft after teacher feedback
A Blast from the past
Over the last 4 years Crocodile Pool, AKA Bandon Baskerville, aged 22, has brought us 7 incredible albums for our ears to enjoy. His album, “On a jJourney to a New World” hit 4 million streams last year and in only the first 3 minutes of being on Spotify, hit 100,000 streams which broke the Spotify streaming record. But even though every psychedelic rock fan has heard of him, what was he really like before all the fame and glory?
Just 5 years ago Brandon Baskerville was streaming on twitch in his free time, but even after trying to do it full- time for 5 months he wasn’t getting the viewers he needed to make any money. He then thought about how he could make money and he had the idea to try and pursue a career in music. He started to explore with a music programme called GarageBand, but he wasn’t sure of how to use it at first and was struggling for 2 weeks just to make one song. But after 4 months of recording, playing and editing and practising making songs, he had finally finished his first album called Moonquake. So he uploaded it to Soundcloud, a free music platform where people could share their music to the world and so Crocodile Pool was Born.
Many days went by and there were still not many people interested in his music.- Brandon says he only had around 50 streams on his new album after 6 days. He was frustrated and exhausted and decided he was going to give up with music and try something else. But the very next day he woke up and checked Soundcloud. He was in disbelief as 400,000 people had listened to his album. He had emails from record labels and messages from people saying how great he was, but most importantly he had the opportunity to play at a local festival in Sydney, Australia.
4 years later Crocodile Pool is one of the most famous and richest psychedelic rock stars and has toured in more than 450 cities and 24 countries. He says, “Life is just a journey that you have to ride, just like a surfer on a surfboard.” He says, “he’s currently working on his new album Space Dust which will be released on the 1st of February 2021”. According to the multi- talented musician he has spent over 6 months on this album and he says it’s the one he’s most proud of. He is also thinking of going on tour in America after the global pandemic dies down as he misses being on stage performing.
In next month’s edition of Radar, we will be giving away 50 exclusive new singles on vinyl of Crocodile Pool’s latest hit “Earth is Infinity”, so make sure you buy or reserve your copy asap.
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A Blast from the past
Over the last 4 years Crocodile Pool AKA Bandon Baskerville age 22 has brought us 7 incredible albums for our ears to enjoy. His album “On a journey to a new world” hit 4 million streams last year and in only the first 3 minuets of being on Spotify, hit 100,000 streams which broke the Spotify streaming record. But even though every psychedelic rock fan has heard of him, what was he really like before all the fame and glory?
Just five years ago Brandon Baskerville was streaming on twitch in his free time, but even after trying to do it full time for 5 months he wasn’t getting the viewers he needed to make any money. He then thought about how he could make money and he had the idea to try and pursue a career in music. He started to explore with a music program called garage band, but he wasn’t sure of how to use it at first and was struggling for 2 weeks just to make one song. But after 4 months of recording, playing and editing and practicing making songs he had finally finished his first album called Moonquake. So he uploaded it to soundcloud, a free music platform where people could share their music to the world and so Crocodile Pool was Born.
Many days went by and there were still not many people interested in his music, Brandon says he only had around 50 streams on his new album after 6 days. He was frustrated and exhausted and decided he was going to give up with music and go to sleep. But the very next day he woke up and checked Soundcloud. He was in disbelief 400,000 people had listened to his album. He had emails from record labels and messages from people saying how great he was, but most importantly he had the opportunity to play at a local festival in Sydney Australia.
4 years later Crocodile Pool is one of the most famous and richest psychedelic rock stars and has toured in more than 450 cities and 24 countries. He says “Life is just a journey that you have to ride, just like a surfer on a surfboard.” He says he’s currently working on his new album space dust which will be released on the 1st of February 2021. According to the multi talented musician he has spent over 6 months on this album and he says it’s the one he’s most proud of. He is also thinking of going on tour in America after the global pandemic dies down and he misses being on stage performing.
Targets
- Get better at not stuttering
- Rerecord it
- Practice it a bit more
- Add a Q and A or interview questions.