Pinball

We're playing on the Saturday evening and are sharing the bill with 2 of my favourite local bands, Karma Control and The Blunders. It should be a great night so hope you can make it. [url="https://www.facebook.com/events/586551644846809/"]https://www.facebook...86551644846809/[/url]

I just bought a Sansamp VT pedal from James. A fast and easy deal and the pedal is as described and in great condition. Thanks buddy

Thanks for the speedy payment for my pedal, I hope you enjoy it.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1470835219' post='3108812'] Thanks for the tip off. It IS brilliant! A totally modern and valid album. I know already that I'm going to listen to it alot. Nice one. [/quote] Yep our guitar player put me on to it to listen too in a week when I had to do a lot of travelling. I liked it on first listen and then liked it more on each subsequent listen. "Modern and valid" is a good description,

There is a lot of competition. There was a recent survey done of the value of live music in Bristol UK-population of 449,300 (from the council web site) On one weekday night there were 94 live music events in or around the city. It's a competitive business Details here http://www.ukmusic.org/research/bristol-live-music-census/

G&L Tribute JB-2 I reckon

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1470430829' post='3106021'] Thanks for that Pinball - always rated him highly but hadn't heard anything from Loud Hailer. My vinyl copy of Truth (Jeff Beck Band with Rod Stewart on vocals) still gets a regular play. [/quote] The last one I bought was Wired in the lat 70's Some of the best tracks aren't on Youtube but as a body of work it's spot on and very sharp all round. It's the best I've heard from him. I'm not into guitar hero's as a rule.

Wow, is anyone else listening to this album. I regularly listen to new music from all sorts of genres and this really shines on so many levels. The musicianship and production are awesome, the lyrics and vocal are outstanding and it rocks. There are loads of highs and lows along with musical surprises. Here are a couple of tracks. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dsffOrOoI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=F6dsffOrOoI[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1xukJkcq1k"]https://www.youtube....h?v=G1xukJkcq1k[/url]

Hmm, I'm surprised with the responses so far. I pretty much always use a small amount of compression. I find that it helps keep everything stable and the volume even when using effects. Particularly with wah and distortion.

Yep we're an originals band with a heavy/prog feel. We are not young band so things are stacked against us I terms of social media competition [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujZTv4eTfXQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujZTv4eTfXQ[/url] Bristol is a-wash with music. We don' really have away into the Uni scene at the moment. Advertising there is like competing with white noise Weston-Super-Mare different.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1469204679' post='3096682'] Depends on the crowd you're trying to attract and the reputation/punters of the venue. if it's a younger crowd and originals then the distribution via Friends of Friends on FB is a good start. Posts on FB and Twitter get many times more views if you have a pic attached so make your poster landscape and reduce it to 900px wide to display as a photo then # it to the venue and any local rags or radio you'd like to cover it. For older bands with an older crowd posters and flyers are the thing. Older folk don't tend to use the i'net enough to look for things to do or gigs to go to. [/quote] That kind of echoes my thinking. It needs to be targeted in terms of area and audience. I reckon there is time to do that with the venue on side Thanks for all the replies..it helps a lot. I can see it is really easy to waste time and money

[quote name='clarkpegasus4001' timestamp='1469144409' post='3096166'] I would suggest all that you have listed but especially Facebook. Posters and flyers all help. Get all the band members to push it as well as the venue. Also the local papers if possible, plus anywhere on the net does does gig listing. Don't fly post illegally or you could get into trouble, and you may lose the gig too. [/quote] We have done a poster (see below) and FB bit. I'm a bit disappointed with FB as it doesn't seem to work as well as it did-any advice there? A good point about the local press. [attachment=224050:Bear Poster.jpg]

What is the best way to promote a gig here in the UK at the moment Bandcamp, Facebook, Lemonrock or old fashioned posters and fliers? What do people out there do to try and get the audiences in?

This is the way to do it properly. The "truly" Sensational Alex Harvey Band Watch to the end...What a band [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIox95OxTc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=nTIox95OxTc[/url]

I used to play Northumbrian Pipes and you could get sets that were tuned to D, sadly mine aren't they are in F