Live shows

Hello people, been a while since i posted anything in here. All i have is this question: Where can i get gigs? I have been looking around for a while. I can't seem to find anyone who is putting them on. I really need to get out there. I really wanted to play. Can any of you help me with this problem?

Certainly not sure if this is the correct forum either...

local venues should do the trick but if you cant find at least one of those, your last resort is to stream live shows over the innerwebz.

If you can't find anyone to put you on then put yourself on.

Round where i live putting myself on is not an option unfortunately.

It's all sewn up around here.

basically you've got three options.

one... you're unknown... you want to play gigs to build a local fanbase. start postering NOW... just your name and a relevant cool picture... get people wondering "who the fuck is this (insert your name) dude?", "what is this all abou"". let that run for a couple of months... now put together an amazing live set, visuals etc. get another act to agree to play/split costs with you and save up. hire out a local venue, pa system, do a poster campaign with times and dates, and hope people show up. you might cover your costs if you're lucky.

two... you're a little more well known... get a good demo to a local venue promoter, and agree to a percentage of the door take as your wages. you may or may not expect a sound engineer and pa to be supplied, so be prepared to take a loss.

three... you're quite well known, and have released a record or two, ro reasonable acclaim. get yourself an agent/tour manager. he/she will hopefully already be in touch with promoters, wither nationally or internationally. your agent gets you gigs, you give him 15 per cent of income. he makes sure you're treated well, costs covered and you know what you're doing.

that's about it unless you want top play local high schools, or you're already huge and get invited to glastonbury and shit.

I generally play coffee shops and hookah bars. Sometimes I play actual bars. I usually play for free too, and just sell cd's and stuff.

Loganfive: Those are good suggestions. We were thinking along similar lines. I have a record out and by all accounts i have read it has been well acclaimed. I will give you an example of one of these.

This is from Rocka - rolla magazine:

Newbury Resident Paul Mulholland aka Skink should be very proud of his self-titled debut, It's all swabs of ambience and glitchy beats just like they should be - all messed up and foetal. But to say that's all this album is a very short-sighted statement. There's also an overwhelming element of drone on here too. 'Minutes Turn To Hours' is the sparest track on the album and offers a lot of insight into Skink's play on textures and musical demeanours but it's when the track sprawls into 'Look To The Sky' that you realise this kid possesses some serious talent. The deep, breath-like ambience of the song is disturbed only by high pitches, waves of electronic noise and heartbeat percussion that really does induce unconscious ponderings. His command of percussion is also excellent and more than evident on 'Who Are We?' and the slow album closer 'The Ages of Carbon Dating Mk III' which is possibly the highlight of the album with its moody guitar centrepiece boxed in by stuttering drums and ripples of static. Skink is an exciting and very engulfing listen. There's enough depth and texture in the washes of melody to keep all those long beards scratched and enough fast paced turns and unexpected drum freakouts to hold the concentration.

I think that maybe getting an agent is the way to go.

Thanks you have been very helpful. Sometimes, i think i have become entrenched that i can not think about some things logically so i think that will be the way to go.

Cheers.

collect local flyers and e-mail the promotors

camp outside the local venue and dont leave untill you have a 3 week residency at 'said club'

if that fails

camp outside you local army and navy store goto iraq and do gigs for the soldiers out there.

fucking lol chris

La, la, la, la, la...

:undecided:

easiest route.....go to alot of shows....talk to the folks who're playing

get freindly...shit buy someone a beer if they totally slayed

go to some more shows

eventually they'll ask you what you do, that's when you give them a cd or a link or something

if your good and they like you, they'll keep you in mind..and you'll get shows

once you have shows get bookers numbers and go

that shit snowballs once you're started

  pantsonmyhead said:

easiest route.....go to alot of shows....talk to the folks who're playing

get freindly...shit buy someone a beer if they totally slayed

go to some more shows

eventually they'll ask you what you do, that's when you give them a cd or a link or something

if your good and they like you, they'll keep you in mind..and you'll get shows

once you have shows get bookers numbers and go

that shit snowballs once you're started

sorry. if you play gigs at a reasonable level, you learn to dread the words "i've been writing these tunes, here's my cd"

  loganfive said:

  pantsonmyhead said:

easiest route.....go to alot of shows....talk to the folks who're playing

get freindly...shit buy someone a beer if they totally slayed

go to some more shows

eventually they'll ask you what you do, that's when you give them a cd or a link or something

if your good and they like you, they'll keep you in mind..and you'll get shows

once you have shows get bookers numbers and go

that shit snowballs once you're started

 

 

sorry. if you play gigs at a reasonable level, you learn to dread the words "i've been writing these tunes, here's my cd"

that's why you wait for them to ask

and this is why you read thoroughly :p

true nobody wants you to just walk up and hand them a cd

there has to be some curiousity for them to even listen to it

I average a show every other week in some manifestation or another nowadays

i get alot of shows from just introducing people to each other

and i had a monthly for a while...the folks i booked at my events in turn booked me back

you help yourself by helping people

help help helperoo

pedophiles

i once put a cd in a take away pizza box and gave it to a club promoter. all the tracks was just white noise and leveled to fuck 909 kick drums. i never got the gig, because i didnt want to play there anyway.. i just wanted to annoy him.

i also had a fight with a dj (punches thrown) because he was playing shit music and i wanted him to put some gabba on..he told me to fuck off so i threw a punch... same club diffrent night.. i asked a bar maid out to the cinema but she thought i was joking.. but i wasnt.

also nicky blackmartket once told me to fuck off because i took a picture of him so i said i think he's not as good as he used to be.. but my brother liked his music (which isnt true, i dont think he's ever heard of him)

here is the picture which got him pissed off:

  Glass Plate said:

pedophiles

come here little boy...

I have taken all of this on board. I'll just have to keep on plugging away at it. I have one show coming up which is better than i had before.

When I was in the band we simply emailed people and asked to support reasonably well know acts, and we got a tour out of it. You always get your chance if you are keen, just make sure the music is well prepared and people might like it. .

only make breakcore or acid

  Idiron said:

only make breakcore or acid

or breakcid

  chris moss acid said:

i also had a fight with a dj (punches thrown) because he was playing shit music and i wanted him to put some gabba on..he told me to fuck off so i threw a punch...

??????

what was he playing?

seems a bit wrong : o

specially replacing it with meat-head music

should av asked for some j-pop

  TheEarlOfEastchurch said:

  chris moss acid said:

i also had a fight with a dj (punches thrown) because he was playing shit music and i wanted him to put some gabba on..he told me to fuck off so i threw a punch...

 

??????

what was he playing?

seems a bit wrong : o

specially replacing it with meat-head music

should av asked for some j-pop

 

 

jacking house i think... i remember was somthing that really pissed me off.. also it was the smugness of the cunt as well.. the place was dead and he was acting like he was the #1 dj of all time... afterwards my mate climbed the college belltower and we got house arrest, so we couldnt leave his house untill 3pm the next afternoon

here is the college belltower in lansdowne road

dont think he was spiderman or anything, it had scaffolding up at the time.