May 20th, 2009 by admin

You have to try and set yourself apart from the sea of other bands that are out there, also wanting to be heard. Heres afew ideas to help.

• Artwork -One idea is to take what is already being done, and try to do something alittle different, or at least an original take about what is going on. 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. Try to take the artwork in a different direction may ensure you stick out from all the other similar sounding bands.
• Use the internet.Nothing has helped bands more in recent years than the internet. Alot of what can be done on it can be done well for fairly cheaply. gigs can be promoting on social networking profiles and forums, you can have a website for the band, contact fans and music industry contacts via email.
• Image. While a majority of the bands believe it is mainly about the music than your haircut, unfortunetly its a 50/50 split between the two things. 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 everything you can, on and offline to try and get people out there -develop a mailing list to let people know, print flyers and posters and go to town and stick them out, hand them out. Because if people dont know a gigs going on, they wont come out.

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