Threepenny Thieves ‘New Romantic’ is No.33 on The Latest Charts, was No.642 on Monday - thanks to everyone for supporting.

http://thelatest.co.uk/music-chart/?docheck=yes

Threepenny Thieves will be performing at Brighton Unsigned on 20th February, come and hear them play ‘New Romantic’ before the video is out.

Brilliant meeting today between all three companies, we are now a TRIO and have signed 2 more solo artists - details announced soon.

…… and so it begins.

DarenDino Productions is closing from 23rd December till 4 January for our Christmas/New Year’s holiday.

We will return in January with a new look, a new company and new ambitious projects for year. During October/November we underwent a re-structure and merged with 2 other companies to work as entity to provide additional services, by combining assets, talent and ambition, we are in a strong position to weather the challenges that are affecting independent businesses at this time.

On 24 December, we will unveil our new sister company Jamboola MediaWorks, this is our new arts and music production.

We also partnered with a new talent management agency in Hove, Loaded Talent Agency.

With this new partnership, we will be producing music videos and promotions for artists and bands that have signed with Loaded Talent, plus we will be returning with a new music video for an established artist in early 2012.

We have invested more in production kit and again upgraded our studio for the projects we have planned, another 6TB has been added to our 12TB storage server, all Macs, iPhones and iPad have been updated with iOS 5 and OS X Lion to keep communications constant and sync project files 24/7, plus back up to iCloud.

We have invested in new lens for the camera and a new photography kit for publicity shoots and portfolios. We have also moved from Final Cut Studio to Adobe CS5.5 Production Suite as it is faster and easier to manage Hi-Def DSLR AVCHD filming.

We have also taken on several trainees whom want to learn the filmmaking and digital media business.

I myself ‘retired’ in July 2011 from teaching Media Studies, Graphic Design and FIlmmaking at various colleges as I was disgusted how shit the education system was becoming too ‘corporate’ with league tables becoming the new profit sheets and the curriculum not in the interest of students to prepare them for work and their career.

I was also not happy with hearing too many students saying that they were turned down for jobs because they had no experience, this is mainly due to colleges not setting up working relationships with businesses and getting students work experiences and apprenticeships whilst they were studying, but also businesses not taking pride in helping young people at at stage in their life where they need encouragement and taught the values of work and income means financial security and giving them the confidence to better themselves and give the the tools to cope with life’s barriers.

DarenDino Productions and Jamboola MediaWork will take young people on whom want to gain experience in digital media and filmmaking.

We will also be supporting the LGBT community and helping to raise awareness of homophobia and same-sex hate crime. If anyone feels they want to get involved in our documentary - ‘Homophobia - Same Sex Hate Crime’, please contact me.

To celebrate our ‘regeneration’ and the launch of Jamboola MediaWorks, we are announcing a special offer to unsigned bands and solo artists.

For £99, we will produce a music video with the band/artist choosing the track they want to be used. This offer will run from 4 January 2012 to 28 February 2012. See attached poster.

Every 2 months, Jamboola MediaWorks will be having special offers aimed at the unsigned bands and solo artist.

We will also be getting involved more in community projects and charity events and offer our services to help those in need.

From all of us at DarenDino Productions/Jamboola Media Works and Loaded Talent Agency, a very merry Christmas and a happy 2012 :-)

Daren & Dino

SIte testing has now been completed and AdWord campaign set up for new Jamboola MediaWorks.

Site will go live on 24th December at 11am.

Jamboola MediaWorks will go live Christmas Eve 2011