BANDSONFIRE.com need help

One of Europe’s most praised music websites – BANDSONFIRE.com – calls for help to every single one of you. Since 2005 they’ve been providing us with the best music around and still are. Due to financial problems they request your help. Tobias Reiss – owner and chief editor of BANDSONFIRE.com – says the following:

“I’ve been running this website since 2005 completely by myself. Writing the year 2010 now, I’m at a point you could very well call „at the end of my rope“. I have tried my very best to bear the financial burden of running BandsOnFire, always putting the intention to serve you all with the site as my first priority, and trying to keep the site as up-to-date as possible. Throughout the years I’ve had financial expenses that can be equated with education expenses the majority of you have respectively have had to pay as well. The only difference is that I won’t ever make enough money that can pay back those expenses, simply because BandsOnFire is not a business, but a ministry with no financial income.

To make the project BandsOnFire a reality, I had to take out an interest-free bank loan a couple of years ago. This amount of 5000 Euro I need to pay back until the end of August 2010. Since my last status report, there have been labels like Come&Live! and bands like Showbread, who have been successfully raising funds for their ministry work. My hope is, that if a label like Come&Live! (who I’ve been heavily promoting on BandsOnFire) or one single band like Showbread can raise such amounts of funds, then BandsOnFire should be able to as well – considering that we’re not dedicated to only one label or genre, but to the whole scene with all its different genres, bands and labels.

If we can’t raise the amount of 5000 Euro by the end of August 2010, I will be forced to give up BandsOnFire entirely and work a full-time job to pay back expenses made for a work that didn’t benefit me personally in the first place. That’s why it really is Life or Death for BandsOnFire.com right now.“

To read the full story and DONATE head over to their website. Please donate generously so BANDSONFIRE.com get the chance to keep doing what they love: providing YOU with the music around. “The question is not if you can donate, the question is if you want, because in reality we all can if we really want to.”