{"id":132062,"date":"2018-12-22T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgianewsdesk.com\/news\/story\/132062\/how-to-grow-a-band-using-the-internet-and-a-musician-booking-agency.html"},"modified":"2018-12-22T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:55:12","slug":"how-to-grow-a-band-using-the-internet-and-a-musician-booking-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/story\/132062\/how-to-grow-a-band-using-the-internet-and-a-musician-booking-agency.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Grow a Band Using the Internet and a Musician Booking Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you watch a whole lot of music videos on YouTube, and if you run a music video channel that tends to happen a lot, then you start running into a whole lot of what could be called Band Origin Stories. Before the Internet, the story kind of goes like: we played 1000 gigs across 1000 towns and met the promotion guy at so and so records and became an overnight success story after five years of touring. <\/span>
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<\/span>How Bands Should Promote Themselves Now <\/strong>
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<\/span>Unfortunately, even if you wanted to emulate bands of yesteryear and do 1000 gigs across 1000 towns it’s not clear that would work or if the venues are even there to hoof it like that, even though bands with musicians that need live audiences are still doing it that way. This article can’t guarantee that you’ll ever make the list of <\/span>Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists<\/span><\/a> but it should help you make a living as a working musician. There’s literally about a gazillion articles telling you how to do that but here’s a brief outline of three things they all say.<\/span>
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<\/span>Sign Up With A Booking Agency <\/strong>
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<\/span>This is sort of a chicken and egg question whether it’s easier to get booking agents after you’ve already established yourself as a band or musician who does lots of live gigs or do you get more live gigs after you’ve found a credible booking agent. But the reality is that successful bands have successful agents or publicists. There’re also all kinds of sites online that allow you to sign up to be booked. A site, like <\/span>Headliner<\/span><\/a>, that’s good at providing acts can also provide other services like breaking down your act into genre and time period. Do you do original music, or do you do primarily heavy metal ska covers? Also any online promotional agency should connect to all the work you’re doing on number two.<\/span>
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<\/span>Promote Your Band Online in Any Way that Seems Feasible, Helpful and Practical <\/strong>
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<\/span>While not every band is on every big website, its weird if your favorite band doesn’t have a Twitter handle, or a Facebook page, or one or two YouTube videos or even a whole online music video album. That’s just the way the future is now. And that future is rapidly evolving to include Snapchat and Instagram. There’s also this following technique to help people <\/span>see project<\/a> needs.<\/span>
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<\/span>Write the Best Music You Can and Be the Best Musician You Can Be <\/strong>
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<\/span>You go down some promotional lists and this doesn’t even make the top ten. And if you’re listening to pop music these days you get the idea that the quality of the songwriting and the musicianship doesn’t matter that much. But it’s very important for longevity. Bottom line: it’s a lot of work just feeding yourself as a musician but musicians that follow these rules can usually make a living.<\/span><\/p>\n

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