We Want The Funds: A Crowdfunding Update

A good week for unique perks for those willing to help fund some new musical projects; you can get drunk with an underground legend, have a young band wash your car or drive you around or get your own bronze statue of the mighty Bon Scott.

Name: DD8 Music
Project: Bon Scott statue for his home town of Kirriemuir
Current Status: 269 pledges, 39% (£17,797) of £50,000 goal, 20 days remaining

We love to claim him as our own, and it's fair enough that we do given that Bon Scott and AC/DC became what they did long after they moved to our shores. But the Scottish town of Kirriemuir are also mighty proud of the deceased frontman of one of the world's greatest ever rock'n'roll bands and they want to show it off with a big statue in his honour.

There are replicas of the final statue – in both resin (£500) and bronze (£2,500) – available, as well as posters, patches, t-shirts and even the chance to have your name engraved in the plinth of the statue up for grabs. Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans is involved as well and will be in attendance at the 2014 Bon Scott festival in the town, where the statue will be unveiled, and the chance to meet him is one of the perks you can score if you chip in £250.

Name: Sean T. Rayburn
Project: Pixies: A Visual History – picture book.
Current Status: 402 pledges, 28% ($42,598) of $150,000 goal. 17 days remaining.

The Pixies are, without doubt, one of the most influential bands in modern rock music. With a colourful history that has included a fair amount of complete inactivity due to infighting, as well as hundreds of shows all over the world and the making of four of the best rock albums of the late-80s and early-90s, there is plenty to soak up, so one of the band's biggest fans has decided to collate what he can and publish a hardcover, high quality picture book.

Sean T Rayburn runs the band's website and has managed to track down a huge number of incredible photographs and visual artefacts that relate to the band and he's hoping the ban'd huge fanbase will help him make them into a classy looking book. You can order the book for $75 – it won't be shipped for a few months – or you can order a series of different postcards that will serve as great mementos for any big Pixies fan. There's a lot of money to be raised in not much time, so you might want to spread the word if you want to see this happen.

Name: The Darling Downs
Project: New album
Current Status: 53 pledges, 26% of goal, 56 days remaining.

Ron Peno and Kim Salmon are two of the most well respected names in Australian underground music and for damn good reason. Between them they have been a big part of some of the finest records to come from our country through their work with Died Pretty, The Scientists and Beast Of Bourbon, and they've made a couple of pretty great records themselves as The Darling Downs.

In order to get their new record out there, they are offering people the chance to grab some very cool perks direct from these Australian musical masters. Want a guitar lesson with Kim Salmon? You can have that for just $120. Want to keep the guitar after it's over? You can do that too, for $1,000.

Want to drink some wine with Ron Peno for an hour and a half? $75 buys you that honour, but you have to pay for the wine. If you're in Melbourne you can have the gents come to your house and play a show for just $1,000 or, if you're elsewhere, $2,500 will buy you that honour.

Name: Marlow
Project: New EP
Current Status: 28 pledges, 116% of goal, 41 days remaining.

So, Sydney's Marlow do not need our assistance as they smashed through their goal very quickly and have raised all the cash they need. But of course they can always use more, plus five percent of it is going to Canteen and, most importantly, they still have some really cool, unique perks available.

For $30 the band will wash your car (so long as you can get to Newington in Sydney), they will take you for a drive and let you listen to the EP as you go for $50, they'll let you join in on their poker game (Texas Hold 'Em) for $45, two members will come to your house and cook dinner for $60 and they'll play any cover you want on YouTube for just $25.

Hell, even if you don't like the band, you have to admit some of these perks are mighty tempting. No wonder they made their goal so quickly.

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Name: Jess McAvoy
Project: New album
Current Status: 60 pledges, 19% (C$5,935) of C$30,000, 32 days remaining.

Perth-bred, now Canadian-based singer-songwriter Jess McAvoy is looking to make her fourth record The Women, which will be the 13th recording that she has issued and she wants this one to be pretty special, which means she needs 30,000 Canadian dollars to get it out there. This will get her a bunch of great musicians, a top notch studio and engineer, a high class producer in Kevin Killen (he knows what he's doing) and will ensure she can press it to vinyl when it's all done.

There's nothing all that exciting that she's offering but, if you're a fan, the chance to have her perform in your home for $500 is a pretty good deal. If you're a really big fan then you can chuck her a lazy five grand and you will get everything; free entry to every show she plays for the rest of your life and signed copies of every release she ever puts out from here on in until the end of time.