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How to get gigs;
A perennial problem for new bands and artists, you’ve written your killer songs, recorded your demos while reading the Logic manual and put them on your fantastic MySpace page, put on your best Top Shop/Man duds and had photos taken by your little sister who’s doing Btec photography.
Although you have up the info that you are available for bookings Harvey Goldsmith, famous concert promoter, has yet to call.
What to do?
The short answer is to be really, really good. If you are people will want to see you and you will get gigs.
Too many bands go out under rehearsed and with songs that need more work.
Remember that if you are successful you will never again have the luxury of having the time to hone your craft and make your mistakes.
However there are strategies you can adopt;
1. Be organised; make sure all your equipment works that you have done your tech spec., you have transport arranged.
2. Make sure your website looks good and if it has music it is representative., i.e good
3. Contact all the venues in you local area that put on appropriate gigs and ask for a support slot. Make sure you phone as well as email. If you can bring along some friends to swell the audience this will be an advantage.
4. Contact bands that you like and are playing in your area and ask to support them. Also contact the venues where they are playing and ask; again phone as well as email.
5. Enter battle of the bands type competitions, although many of these are of dubious value and require you to sell so many tickets etc., they will give you practice of playing in front of an audience and again to hone your craft.
6. Organise your own gigs; Get together with a couple of other bands, book a venue, pub function room, village hall and so on and do it yourself. If you can sell enough tickets to cover costs then great, if not you can spread the cost between more than one act. Make sure you are in all the relevant local listings which are mostly free. If you can afford it, do flyers too and make use of all your contacts via myspace, facebook etc,
All the above will require work and perseverance but do work!
By all means contact booking agents but the ones worth having are unlikely to take you on unless you have a record deal or are selling decent numbers of tickets.
If you are any good people who do see you will tell their friends and more of them will come to your next show.
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