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| Hurricane Healing Blue Pie Records record label claims to support charities with |
| 18th of Nov, 2011 by User453173 |
SCAM!!! DON'T BUY MUSIC FROM THESE PEOPLE After speaking to an entertainment lawyer who is all too familiar with Blue Pie's reputation I've contacted all three of the charities Blue Pie claims to support. The American and Australian Red Cross say they've had no dealings with Blue Pie or Hurricane Healing and while it is against World Vision's policy to disclose donor information their offices advised me that World Vision "has not endorsed Blue Pie Records (or any of its affiliated businesses or companies) or the Hurricane Healing compilations." The Salvation Army continues to investigate... "Hurricane Healing" claims to be donating 50% of all proceeds to hurricane relief. I'm doubtful of the veracity of this claim. Lawyers have cautioned me that several artists (myself included) report that they've not been paid the artist shares (20%) promised to them for contributing songs to Hurricane Healing's "fundraising" compilations. Blue Pie has released 80 Hurricane Healing compilations albums thus far. Several years ago, I contributed 1 of my songs to their "record label" called Blue Pie for what they claimed was a charity compilation called Hurricane Healing. Soon after, I discovered Blue Pie was distributing my entire EP (sent to them in order to audition songs for the compilation) without my knowledge. I spoke to "Damien Reilly" numerous times by phone and email demanding he cease distributing my work and sent notice to terminate our agreement in 2006. Though Damien agreed to delist my material, in writing, to date my request has gone unfulfilled and HH continues to distribute my music via online distribution outlets like INgrooves. I am now formally notifying all of Blue Pie's distribution partners, in writing, to cease and desist any distribution of my material in connection with Blue Pie, Hurricane Healing or any of their affiliated companies. If you are an artist who they've scammed, I encourage you to do the same DON'T BUY MUSIC FROM THESE PEOPLE!
If you want to help with hurricane relief efforts donate to the , and directly And if you wish to purchase indie artists' music seek out their websites and purchase from there. ARTISTS DONT SEND YOUR MUSIC to "Hurricane Healing", Blue Pie, or whatever name they'll be going by next. And pass this info along to every independent artist you know. IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST WHO'S BEEN SCAMMED by "Hurricane Healing" I encourage you to post about it here and everywhere the "Hurricane Healing" compilation is being sold.
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I once sent in a CV in response to a PedestrianTV internship ad, posted by Blue Pie. The post contained the words "proffesional record label" - yes, with 2 F's. First red flag.
One week after I'd sent my CV, I called the company up using my 'phone voice', which I had attained via telemarketing training. All I said was: "Hi, my name is X. How are you going?" I expected for the recipient (i.e Damien) to answer in a polite way and ask what the call was about - to which I would've answered: "I sent in my CV about the internship last week...yada yada." But nope - none of that happened. He just simply hung up. Un-"proffesional" at best. Second red flag.
So I immediately called up again. "Hi, I'm X. I was calling about the internship position?" He wanted nothing to do with me. His reply was lackadaisical and just...icky. I didn't know what he looked like but I got bad vibes simply from the tone of his voice and the language he used.
I'm working in a music publishing company now, and my boss has warned me about the shiftty cowboys in the Australian music industry. After reading the posts in this thread, and piecing these together with my very short experience, I can say he is definitely one of those shifty/shitty cowboys.
Glad I never dealt with him ever again. |
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