done&dustedmshadetek wrote:Here's the thing. Charles "Nomad" Holgate may be a great guy, great MC, honest, good publicist etc. but in this case he took a bunch of money and turned around and crapped on everyone involved. Rupture, the artists on the CD including myself, the label, and the fans who would like to know about it.
You can be an honest nice person up until you do something dishonest and not nice.
Having been involved with the CD since before release I'd just like to point out a few things.
1) Charles was completely unable to document any work on this release. As a publicist it's important that you do that. He should have sent spreadsheets detailing where he had sent copies and then updated those sheets to say "This journalist didn't like your CD and declined to review" or "Didn't return any follow up communications". Without this, and with no press at all, negative or positive appearing in UK, while the release gathered strong reviews in the states from places like Pitchfork and the New York Times, suggests that the work wasn't done.
2) As it seems clear that he didn't do the work, or only partially did it, or that something somehow went very wrong, Charles could have owned up to it. He could have said, I tried to get you some press, no one was interested (which he later said) and it didn't work out. Instead he said "I'll send an update tomorrow" for WEEKS AND WEEKS and tried to claim credit for things that other people had generated (later confirmed by speaking to the journos in question). Only when Rupture put this post up 7 weeks ago did he start communicating again. What does this look like?
3) Ammunition and Sarah Lockhart's involvement is that Charles was working as an independent publicist and just as he took this project on, went to work for Ammo and the project got dropped. These are all facts, not innuendo or supposition. Charles is an employee or contractor for Ammo, ironically doing public relations, and if he shits on someone like this, I'm sorry, it does splash back on them. If they don't like it perhaps they should be more thoughtful about who they hire.
And for those who say "Oh you're mad and ranting" or whatever, if you just let people shit on you and take it quietly, that's all you. If someone shits on us, it is a problem.
shadetek come with ur remix of that waifer beat tho
