| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
you just said it in your 2nd sentence - P2P=extortion.
Whether you do the promotion or not you've nothing to promote. THe bands that do these gigs are totally new to playing live and thus no one has heard of them. Who will go and see them if they've not heard of them?
To build a rep you have to play and you have to be memorable. But, all you do playing p2p shows is exhaust people's interest in you if you sign up to deals where you have to hand X pounds over when you play.
You'll sell tickets to the same folk every time and eventually they're fed up seeing you. Threads like this are important, because they flag up to young bands what you can do to get good gigs.
Book somewhere and do the work yerself - in Glasgow you'd do a lot worse than booking Ohenrys or The 13th Note and putting on your own show. IF you struggle to get folk to come see you, team up with like minded bands with more experience and a few folk who come see them.
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