How to tell people your band exists
You need to set yourself apart in some way from the thousands of other bands out there. Here’s a few ideas to help.
- Artwork -Take a look at the other bands in your genre and take note of what they are doing- then try to have an original take on what they are doing. Death metal band Cannibal Corpse started having artwork with ultra gory and shocking covers, the success of it meant that almost every other band in the scene started trying to do it. By trying to take the artwork in another direction your going to ensure that it’ll stand out from similar bands.
- Use the internet. Nothing has helped bands more in recent years than the internet. A lot of what can be done on it can be done well for fairly cheaply. You can promote gigs via social network band profiles, have a band website, post news about upcoming gigs on forums and contact fans, promoters and a lot of other people within the music industry.
- Image. Most bands believe that the music is more important than your looks, sadly its a mixture between the two. So some bands have a image/ gimmick -Slipknot wear masks to hide their faces, GWAR wear costumes and claim to come from an alien planet, so image can help sell your band to people.
- Letting people know about your gigs. The more people who know you are playing a gig, the more chance their is that more people will come down. Do whatever is necessary to let people know about your band -develop a online newsletter, use your social network, hand out flyers and put up posters around town. If no-ones aware the gig is going on, then no-one is going to come out.
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