... market yourself out there,stay true to your beliefs and who you are..bands need to attract new fans and by way of doing this is for gig organisers to source for the crowd not the bands.. a band's job is to entertain and inspire with where comes new fans of the bands.. where the new fans come from is the god damn organiser's job!! that's what yer getting paid for remember???
Well, here's a very good reason why local bands don't prosper. They leave all the promoting to the organisers.
They think they can just come late, no need go soundcheck, expect to have extra cables and a two point pin adapter for their guitar effects pedals, plug in their guitars, strum for 30 mins and then call it a day and get treated like kings.
Gig organisers promote the EVENT. Bands, however, promote THEMSELVES. So don't get this mixed up.
Whenever I organise a gig, I don't go around telling people "Hey come for *fill in band's name* slot! It's at 7.30pm!". I tell them to come for my show.
I'm pretty sick of bands who are ignorant of this matter. I hope they realise this because it's not easy organising a show and seriously, we don't earn much or sometimes anything.
Even if we do have a little something, it's kept somewhere so we could use it for another show to pay for the rent or equipment with that money.
It takes two hands to clap. The organisers try their best to promote the event but it all depends on the bands to bring in the crowd. If the bands don't, what if the cost of everything falls short? The bands don't have to pay anything. Organisers do.
So be nice to them. They're there for a reason. To make a difference. To provide shows and exposure and stage experience for new bands or old. If gig organisers go on strike and all the bands think it's the organisers' duty to promote them, then the bands can go wait forever.
For those bands who don't appreciate the efforts put in, I say try organising. Organisers don't owe you anything. Neither does anybody else. You owe it to yourself.
But of course, ethics is still ethics. Our hearts and objectives should never to think of how much we're gonna make use and profit from the bands. If that's the intentions, then balls to those people.