So today is the day - Dom's wonderful website is available to the world, and so is our new demo. Five songs, all recorded completely live in an effort to get us some gigs around the South-East of England. We realise that there's not much chance of someone stumbling across our website and then giving us a gig, so we'll be making up some good old-fashioned CDs to send out.
The only problem with this whole process is that the vast majority of venues that have unsigned bands playing have no interest in how good you are. I'm sure they'll give the CD a quick listen just to make sure you're not a tuba-xylophone double act, but if and when they decide to give you a call and offer you a gig, the main thing they are interested in is how many people you can bring along to the gig.
I can understand that - we're purely a bit of entertainment to try and bring in a few extra people. But it's bit disappointing that it's our mates who are expected to be those extra people.
Not all venues are like this of course - some have recognised that by having live music it makes their venue a more appealing place to be. But they'll still be interested in seeing how many "travelling fans" we'll bring with us. That, of course, is a very difficult question to answer. It depends on what day if the week the gig'll be on, where the venue is, whether they'll be charging people to get in, etc, etc.
Still, one way we can let them know how popular we are, is to see how many friends and fans we have on websites like Facebook and Myspace. So if you've got a couple of minutes, won't you please become our friend?
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