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If you want a weekend in the studio with Nick Lowe now is the time to send in your cassette tapes.
Now here are the rules in full:
1) Every contestant is required to submit one (and only one) original song performed by themselves on a clean cassette tape together with a typewritten lyric sheet.
If there is more than one song on the cassette the contestant will be disqualified.
Important: No reel-to-reel tapes, acetate demos, privately made records, sheet music, videos or in-person auditions will be accepted as an official entry.
2) All entries must be accompanied by all three NME official competition vouchers, the cassette cover official entry form on the left of the page is the third voucher and must be completed correctly and used in the manner stated below. No photostats will be accepted.
3) All contestants by signing the official declaration on the entry form will be declaring:
- (a) that the entry submitted is of their own work and performed by them.
- (b) that they have no existing recording or publishing contracts or any currently pending with any record label or music publishing house.
- (c) that they own the exclusive copyright to both the song and the recording submitted. In other words, nobody else has any legal claim to it.
- (d) that previous to entering this competition, a contestant hasn't held a professional recording contract with either a label or a production company. An ex-member of a recording group who is no longer professional or bound to any existing contracts is still eligible.
4) Any contestant who has privately financed, recorded, pressed and distributed their own record can enter, but only if that record was not financed (wholly or partly) by a known recording company or distributor. If you have made a record on your own label, neither that song nor the recording will be accepted as an official entry.
5) This competition is open to everyone from soloists to groups and orchestras.
6) No tapes will be returned. And positively no dialogue, written or verbal, will be entered into with either contestants , anyone acting on their behalf, managers, publicists or protective mothers. Also entries cannot be delivered to the NME offices.
Important: Should any of these rules be violated, if tapes are sent in without all vouchers and entry form, the offenders will automatically be disqualified.
This competition is open to all readers in the UK, Eire, Isle Of Man and the Channel Islands, except employees (and the families) of IPC Magazines Ltd, the printers of New Musical Express, the staff of Riviera-Global, Rockpile and Elvis Costello & The Attractions. The Editor's decision is final and the results will be published in a future edition of NME.
Once the winner has been chosen and notified, a recording session will be arranged at a mutually agreeable time with Nick Lowe producing. Once the session has been completed, the two-inch master tape together with the quarter-inch mixed copy tape will become the exclusive property of that act officially judged the winner by Nick Lowe and his manager Jake Riviera in the collaboration with NME's Neil Spencer and Roy Carr. The winner is free to dispose of the tape in whatever manner they wish. However, in such shark-infested waters, to assure fair play and to avoid a rip-off, both Nick Lowe and Jake Riviera (Riviera-Global) will offer advice about securing a favourable label deal without getting burned.
All entries must be received by Monday, January 15, 1980. Just complete the entry form on the left of the page, place it inside the cassette cover and along with your type-written lyric sheet send it to:
Nick Lowebrau Competition, 55 Ewer Street, London, SE99 6YP.
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