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Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
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Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
Yeah, weekdays at night and day can be pretty quiet, and they don't even move the tables off the floor. It's lie being in a jazz bar. But with out of tune guitars and cans of lager.
I'll check out your band when I'm not at work. We're currently starting out in the originals scene. Had two gigs so far. We managed to get a few to the second. I'd still rather play my own songs to five people, than covers to a hundred.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
I pretty much retired from playing live in the 80's and early 90's but went back to playing in cover bands in the mid 90's. The scene had changed completely during that time. It was nearly impossible to get a gig doing original material. It was all tribute or cover bands. Venues were booking up to a year in advance so, if you put a band together in January, you would struggle to get gigs until the autumn when all the venues did their bookings for the year.
All in all the live music scene was a lot healthier in the 70's and a decent band could get work, gain a following and at least have a chance of making it. Things are very different now.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
I think the trick might be to only play out once every other month, and put on a night with 4 other bands. That way you're not having to drag everyone you know out every other week to hear the same 5 songs.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
I gave up on the music scene in SE England (Kent) - there were places to play but only if you were in an orignals ska/punk or hard rock/metal band , with more options if you were in a covers band.
Trying to get gigs in London was a nightmare and loads of places demanded you bring x number of people with you or you paid a depot to "cover costs" Actually finding a place with it's own crowd was really hard. Saying that there were a couple of local promotors in Ashford and Canterburry who really tried to supoprt local live original music and for a while they had good success, but the audiance was always so young and it was alwas Ska/Punk/Metal/Hard Rock
My mates and used to see as much live music as possible, I lost count of the number of bands I saw where the only people watching was my group, 1 by 1 all the venues closed, leaving only a handful.
I grew out of the ska punk scene, wanted to write more variety of music and promtly discovered there was little opportunity to play. That was 1999 - 2005.. slowly became very depressed and disillusioned with music and pretty much gave up till last year.
Can't really comment on UK now as I am based in Switzerland - but I see that a few old venues have come back to life and one place that was particularly good (the Red Lion in northfleet) appears to be thriving, my mates tell me that live music is starting to grow again.
In Switzerland when you do manage to get a gig (which is hard as there are too many bands for the number of venues), there is normally no need to "bring people" Restaurants are happy to have originals bands and peope are more likely to listen, also the crowd is older, so doing the folk - blues thing I do now is actually fun
In my band our target is a gig a month and we play mostly covers.