Our Patreon in 2020 (Patreon)

What a year. We turned 5, we're all back in the same country, Spotify threw a bunch of numbers at us that were so big they're basically incomprehensible - It has been crazy! A year ago we made some changes to our Patreon to better serve what you, our most invested fans, and we're doing the same thing this year to adjust for the fact we're all in the same country again 🥳

First we'll start with what's leaving Patreon:

- $20 Platinum tier - The goal behind the platinum tier was to allow people most invested in the content to help us come along for the creative process as we get to the end result. We want more people to get involved with that, which is why we're moving all Patreon only live streams back to Twitch so that everyone can be there for all shows. Time zones are weird and we have a bad one, so we're abolishing the tier to make it so anybody who's up at whatever un-godly Australian hour we're streaming, you can watch.  As such, the $10 Gold tier will now get you charts in addition to a bunch of extra BTS stuff which we'll talk in a bit.

 - SMJ (kinda) - We love SMJ. Season 1 was a banger, Season 2 got a bit weird because it took the spot of the Request Show which at the time we thought made sense as sort of a Request Show "off-season" but it turns out people just want to hear tunes and that's cool too. Season 2 still isn't physically out yet (working on it), we've got another half of season 3 to record so we feel this is a good time to put the show on hiatus for now while we catch our breath a bit. We'll be using your votes/submissions for something else we'll get to in a minute, but at least for now we're done with SMJ.

 - The podcast - The Kick On is something we really enjoyed doing this year and again if enough people yell at us we'd probably consider bringing it back, for now while we focus on a lot more music/production we're throwing the podcast on hiatus too (If there's enough interest we're 100% open to bringing it back so let us know I guess?)

Alright so that's what's out. You might have seen a few months back, we did an hour long set as part of Free Play VGM and then released a series of what we called 'Jams' or single song extracts from that stream up on our YouTube. We thought we'd do that every month, but with new tunes as voted by you! We'll take the SMJ style voting at Bronze and submitting at Silver, skip the part where it takes a year for us arrange and give you a fresh set of music every month, including new arrangements as voted for by you. We figured this would be a good compromise for people who want to have input on what we do next and for people who just want to hear us play music.

The breakdown of 2020 tiers will look like this:

$1, Bronze - Monthly jam (man we really cornered ourselves with this name huh?) voting, Discord flair
$5, SIlver - Early access to the main 'music' videos, .WAV downloads of new tunes, suggestions for the monthly jam show thing give me a name please.
$10, Gold - Chart library, audio library (including stuff that won't make it to music services such as .mp3 versions of these new jam streams), BTS stuff like voice memos of first runs of tunes, early video edits etc.

It's a lot of info and a really great time to drop it on December 31st, but we'll be working from tomorrow (no really, tomorrow) to make 2020 our biggest year yet. If you've got any comments, questions, criticisms or just want to throw some words our way about any of this, drop a comment or get at us on the Discord. You guys allow us to do what we do so we're always open to whatever you have to say.

Well that post was too long. Thank you for being on the journey with us so far. 2020 is going to be our biggest year ever and I can't wait to see what comes from it.

Gamz