Ecco Recordings attempts to close itself down.

You remember we keep going on about Zombie companies that Crowdcube has helped fund. Well this one Ecco Recordings, backed by Pels Asset Management, is about to close - at last. 

It wasnt a big one for Crowdcube, £140k invested in 2013/4. Still it follows a very similar pattern to most of Crowdcube's successes. Massive promises followed by no delivery followed by a few years in the wilderness followed by collapse. 

We wrote about them in March 2017 here and despite an anon posting a lengthy comment about how wrong we were, everything we said has turned out to be true. Crowdcube investors shafted and lied to. Company run so poorly it has collapsed even with the money that the Pels family office have. One assumes, as Philip Pels has signed off on the application to close the venture, that at least no creditors will be hung out to dry.

It all brings back memories of T. Rex's 71 classic  - Rip Off. 

Ecco Recordings website in the dark just as their main attraction hits the BIG time.

Slippery little suckers - these success stories.

Ecco Recordings raised £134k (corrected from £234k as typo)on Crowdcube back in 2013. Their main pitch was a band called These Reigning Days - who were going to make it B.I.G. 

Several years later and they may have - Reigning Days have just signed with Marshall Records.

The Ecco Recordings website, however, is down and they were last reported heading into dangerous waters with their balance sheet in tatters in the wind. 

Looks like another empty stage for all those shareholders. One shareholder has complained that no communication from the company has been received since the Crowdcube round. It's a similar story with most Crowdcube funded companies.