Someone held the door for you once. A mate with a spare mic. A stranger who shared your song. Now hold it for the next one. Buy a A$19 release pass, and the next artist in line puts their song out into the world.
01 / 04Every musician remembers who held the door.
02 / 04For a first-timer, A$19 can be the gap between a voice memo and a release.
03 / 04You cover the gap. We walk them through. Heard in full, released properly, no catch.
04 / 04One pass, one release. Every dollar lands.
A Hold the Door release pass is A$19. You buy it, we gift it to the next artist in line, and their song goes out properly.
Of what you give reaches the artist. Not most of it. All of it. The label pays the card fees out of its own pocket and keeps nothing.
Pass money is tracked in its own ledger and held in a separate bank account. Never mixed with label money.
Within 3 business days a founder tops the account up by the exact card fees. The pass account always holds 100%.
Ben and Flick both approve every payout. Paid straight to suppliers, or as a cash grant to the artist.
Every dollar in and out is on the ledger below, with a receipt for every payout. Checked against the bank monthly.
No label fee on any release Hold the Door pays for. We make nothing from it.
Any shortfall is made good from label money within 5 business days, and the ledger says so.
Emerging artists putting out an original song, Queensland first, in the order they asked. They choose whether to be named. Their reasons are never published.
| Date | In or out | Who | What for | Amount | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing yet. The first pass shows here the day it is bought. | |||||
Passes show a first name or "Anonymous", your choice. Payouts show the artist (with their OK), what it paid for and the receipt.
Love, Ben
No. It's a purchase: you buy a release pass, and we gift the release to the next artist in line. Blackout Room isn't a charity and passes aren't tax deductible. No GST: the label isn't registered for GST. You get a receipt.
A receipt, your name (or "Anonymous") on the ledger, and an email the day your pass is used, telling you what it paid for and who it helped, if they're happy to be named.
Yes, in full, any time before your pass is used. Once it's put toward a release, it's been spent on that artist. Your Australian Consumer Law rights always apply.
Your pass moves to the next artist in line. We'll tell you, and you can ask for a refund instead.
Ben, Flick, Codi, our families, our own projects (Neon\\Haven included), and anyone we've paid in the last 12 months. One Hold the Door release per artist a year, so it spreads.
Emerging artists with an original song, Queensland first, in the order they asked. Ben and Flick pick from the listening queue, and the reasons are logged.
One small shout and a song gets to exist out there, on the drive home from work, for someone who needed it.
Buy a release passHold the Door is run by Blackout Room Records, Brisbane. Full rules: terms and the house policy library.
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