Together we can make this new song explode…
Hey, we’re excited to share Lost Boys with you this Friday. We’re trying to get as much momentum built up before the release and we’d love your help with that if you have a spare 30 seconds!
Our distributor tells us that if we could get a few hundred pre-saves on the song then we’d have a great chance of getting ‘Lost Boys’ playlisted and therefore getting the song heard far and wide. There are about a thousand of you on this list so together we could make this happen right now!
As a further deal sweetener we thought we’d add some incentives; Pre-Save Lost Boys with your email address now to be entered into a competition to win a Belle Mt. heart logo merch t-shirt. Tomorrow we’ll send the song pre release listen link to everyone that has pre saved by then, so you can hear it two days before its streaming release! 🖤 Click the button below to get started.
Song Explainer
"Lost Boys" is an anthem and a rallying cry initially written for my hometown of Sunderland, UK. The scars of the early 1980s still linger, when the UK government rapidly shut down the national shipbuilding and mining industries without any transitional period to minimise the negative effects, tearing away the very essence of the city's identity and pride. These industries were not only sources of income for the men of Sunderland; they represented a centre of gravity for the community, their sense of belonging, and their pride. The jobs lost weren't replaced for decades and the community suffered greatly.
The consequences of that jolting loss continue to reverberate today. Addiction-related deaths in the area are a staggering 50% higher than the national average, and the suicide rates soar over 40% above the rest of the nation. Yet, amidst this pain, I have encountered some of the warmest, most resilient people in my hometown. They deserve so much more than the decades of neglect and mistreatment by successive governments. With "Lost Boys," we aim to contribute to the rising wave of revitalisation for a city and its people.
We hope this can become an uplifting anthem for a renewed togetherness, countering the hate that disillusionment can lead to when capitalised upon by negative actors.
We could be, we can be more.
- Matt
“Lost boys what we gonna do now
who do we look to to lead us all out
Can an old town ever get bold
when they took it’s soul
will we ever be, ever be more
than our fathers ghosts
We could be
We could be more.”
Belle Mt. Patreon fan community; It’s been a lot of fun to get know our fans more closely this year and to share way more of our process. Social media gets in-between us all and we’d love your help to keep on making music ✨
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