Hello there prospective indierock star. And welcome to the guide to sending your noises to fierce panda records, the page on the panda website which tells you what you should do if you have some tunes and you want us to hear them.

After fifteen years of breaking into scrumpled jiffy bags, deciphering hand-written letters and staring at quite frankly alarming black & white band pictures we decided it was high time we respected the landfill sites of this mighty isle. And so it is that, alas and alacky for all the letter writers, jiffy bag manufacturers and band photo developers out there, fierce panda NO LONGER ACCEPTS PHYSICAL DEMOS. Bye bye PO Box, hello modern civilisation.

There. We said it. And in CAPITAL LETTERS as well. So it must be significant.

The only way you can whisk your tunes to us now is by sending your MP3s or myspace links to mrbongopanda@aol.com Simple eh? Yes indeedy. After that your noises will be listened to by our crack team of A&R tigers, a few of whom promote their own gigs in London Town and also have nefarious connections with some cracking 7" labels. In other words, if you don't quite cut the mustard in terms of picking up a 20 album deal from the panda itself then, provided your demo is half decent there is at least half a chance of something else being thrown your way.

We are not choosy about the style of the music involved. All we ask is that you cast a wary eye over the current panda roster (detailed elsewhere on this here site) to get a handle on the sort of indie rock noises being bashed about in the panda HQ before you think we might be suitable for you. We won't automatically email you all back to tell you what we think of your noises - the sheer volume of demos we receive precludes such social niceties - but rest assured you will be listened to, and if you drop mrbongopanda@aol.com a nice line to follow up your demo you may well get a nice response.

And that is it. No more DOs or DON'Ts. No more WILLs or WON'Ts. You send us what the bloomin' heck you like and we'll do the rest.