Blog: No Rock And Roll Fun

It's not a new idea, but the involvement of Steve Pankhurst has helped generate some interest in Bandstocks . Pankhurst was a founder of Friends Reunited, the service which lets you find out where the people you went to school with are now ("on Facebook", normally) and he's put some of the cash he got offloading the site to ITV into the new scheme. It's another one of those places where bands can appeal to fans to pay the costs of producing an album up front: Bandstocks will let the public buy a stake in [...]