There was a time when hustling gigs was pretty easy. Plenty of places to play for a decent band.Nowadays things are getting a bit harder, and our gig diary is looking pretty empty. We have been through some line up changes, so haven't gigged for a while.
There are fewer pubs putting on gigs every month round here. The economics are difficult for landlords to justify putting on live music and their is now a lot more competition for fewer gigs.
A lot of those pubs we used to play have gone under or changed management so we are having to build up good will again. We have been knocked back a couple of times, by landlords deciding we were crap because the gig diary was nearly empty, or because we don't have many fans on Facebook. It's a bit of a catch 22, we can't get gigs because we have no gigs.
So any ideas?
If anyone is on facebook and can give a like to help us out that would be great. If you stick us on ignore after that so you don't have to see our witterings that's cool.
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When we did this we got paid gigs at places we had no idea even put on gigs ( although basically the shit holes of the West Midlands).All our paid gigs ended up this way through a couple of agencies and I still get calls now from them trying to fill cancellations.
I don't think any of the freebie charidee gigs ever lead to a paid gig despite quite often doing so as 'this will put us on the map.' Also there seems to be every chance that they are badly organized with hours of hanging around which you aren't allowed to mind as they are for charidee.