Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Brandon of Alaska in Winter Hospitalized

Dear friends, fans, and supporters
Brandon has been in the hospital for some time. He came in dangerously emaciated, delirious and in critical health. His stay in the psychiatric ward is for treatment of severe depression and chemical psychosis. There's a possibility that treatment will continue for another month until Brandon is stabilized and out of his paralyzing depression. But Brandon assures us all that he has loads of exciting new material in the works and tons of music close to completion- but fate has dealt a harsh blow that Brandon is finding extremely hard to get back up from. Brandon's economic state is hurting bad which is preventing the production of new music- even the basic necessities like food, and paying rent is a huge obstacle for him. There are many unfortunate factors that are out of Brandon's control which are preventing him from finishing nearly 3 albums worth of heart melting music.


Needless to say this winter has taken it's toll on Brandon with living in poverty, isolation, near homelessness, depression, and the inability to pay for food and heating- courtesy of Brandon's record labels. Brandon's health has deteriorated due to an entire winter with no heat- many nights getting down to 5°F. Living in conditions where one can see their breath inside the house did wonders for Brandon's health and voice. You can all thank Mr. Iain Kirckaldy- owner and manager of Regular Beat Records, for helping to keep Brandon in these miserable conditions. Even knowing that Brandon was hungry, cold and in dire need of money, Iain Kirckaldy lied to Brandon's face and kept the money from him.


Regular Beat currently owes Brandon a very large sum of money from a sync license deal RB made illegally with a film company called Montcau Produccions, S.L. That money was supposed to go to Brandon but with Regular Beat's manipulations, RB managed to make off and steal all of the money (non of which Regular Beat is legally entitled to). Regular Beat has since hid all of Brandon's money in his bank account and seems content with simply ignoring any of Brandon's emails throughout the past 6 months. In addition to that, Regular Beat has yet to pay a single cent to Brandon in 3 years! A lovely way to treat your most important artist isn't it? Anyway, If you'd like to send your thanks, condolences, love, hate mail etc. to Mr. Iain of Regular Beat, please do so at these emails:
info@regularbeat.com
regularbeat@hotmail.co.uk
iain@regularbeat.com


or even send him a letter letting him know how you feel...
Iain Kirkcaldy,
P.O. Box 106, Liverpool, Merseyside, L17 4ZR

We'd also like to ask for everyone to boycott Regular Beat. Please do not buy any more AIW music put out by Regular Beat. If you are in Europe/ UK and would like to get some Alaska in Winter music, please email: info [at] alaskainwinter [.] com


Also, if anyone can help Brandon in anyway, or if you know a lawyer in the UK that would be willing to do some legal work (for free) then please contact us at info [at] alaskainwinter [.] com


Thank you all for dealing with Brandon during this difficult time and we assure you all that Brandon is very anxious to get better and back to work on those new releases that we hope will be filling your ears soon.

2 comments:

Jake said...

Hang in there man.

Anthony said...

Awful, awful stuff. If I wasn't a broke ass college kid I'd be reaching into my pockets for you, dude, but for now all I can do is keep you in my prayers. And I'll definitely send that douchebag a nice e-mail.