Operation Concrete

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This post is long overdue, I guess I should have done this shortly after the actual launch night but December turned out to be just as busy and stressful as the preceding months and I ended up pretty much sleeping for the entire 10 days I had off over Christmas.

So anyway, the last 12 months have been a truly amazing, eye opening, challenging, unrelenting set of long nights full with self discovery, smiles, frowns, ideas, creativity, drinks and madness. I couldn’t have asked for more, and I couldn’t have received more support from the people that were involved. A true journey into the world of independent publishing and collaborative media.

So to kick off Thank You To Everyone Involved!

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The roll of honour!

Bands:

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Jealousy

Dan Dunne & The Reels

Madness

Invasion

Desire

Akira

Love

My First Tooth

Anger

Rue the Day

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Artists:

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Jealousy

Holly Exley

Madness

Benjamin Phillips

Desire

Bill Talbot

Love

Tori Treasure

Anger

Gareth A. Hopkins

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Other:

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For proofing the novel and ensuring it made sense

The Oxford Editors

For being extremely accommodating on the night of the launch and for the exhibition

Vibe Bar

For giving me £5,000 toward the project

Arts Council

For producing an amazing mix of the final record

Area 18 Studios

For doing all the web design and always being on hand when I was panicking

Mikey Stephens

For producing the awesome sound pods for the exhibition

Leigh Cranston Props

For producing stunning art work for the novel, art book and album covers

Michael Cranston Design

Everyone else who lent a hand, read a passage, gave me feedback, listened to me banging on, or generally kept me company online during the long nights and early mornings, I could not have done it without you.

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The final products:

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Concrete Operational – The novel by Richard Galbraith

BUY ON AMAZON HERE
The first stage of the novel is available to read below

Concrete Operational – The Art book

BUY ON AMAZON HERE

The art based around the extract for Jealousy by Holly Exley is available to look at below

Concrete Operational – The Album

BUY ON AMAZON HERE
The artwork for the album and the track for the extract Jealousy by Dan Dunne & The Reels is below

Concrete Operational – The Collection

BUY VIA PAYPAL HERE
The limited edition, handmade, bespoke collection box-sets are available to look at below

Concrete Operational – The Short

DOWNLOAD AT VIMEO HERE
I may make this available on a DVD soon

Concrete Operational - The Short - The book trailer from ricgalbraith on Vimeo.

Concrete Operational – The Exhibition
Jump over to Flickr to have a look at how the exhibition turned out.

Next step is letting as many people know about the project as possible which is getting underway as we speak. All in all it’s been an amazing experience, and I plan on doing a lot more like this in the future, I’ve set up Rawstone Media Industries now which will hopefully allow me to do that. Thanks again to everyone involved!