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4th February 2008, 10:30am
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#1 | | Registered User
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| Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
Just a warning to folks on this forum. If you organise gigs or know someone who does, make sure that LIFELORDS aren't on it. We gave them a major support slot which they no-showed without so much as the courtesy of a phone call. We did all we could to try and reach them including sending someone round to one of their houses and still nothing. Turns out they were on Myspace during the gig, so we know at least one of them would have been available to talk to us.
They've got a load of European dates lined up, but to be honest if this is how they treat promoters in Glasgow then I can't see why anyone else would touch them! | 
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4th February 2008, 11:23am
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#2 | | Strong protect the weak Admin
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
To all those who's posts I delete stop talking pish, if you want to do that you know where junk talk is.
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4th February 2008, 11:24am
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#3 | | Kurwa
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
If we stopped posting pish there'd be no forumers on here
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4th February 2008, 11:31am
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#4 | | FUCKING WERCK?!
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
punyhumanpromotions is some pay-to-play-rape-the-local band poopy ass promotions company is it not?
DESERVED.
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4th February 2008, 11:53am
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#5 | | Homeboy fucked a Martian.
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
Doesn't strike me as particularly professional of a promotions company to come on to a public forum to specifically slate a band either.
No offence, but if you came looking for sympathy, you're going to be sorely dissappointed.
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4th February 2008, 12:03pm
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#6 | | FUCKING WERCK?!
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
In light of HostMute'z comments, I think this jpeg is in order: 
here endith the thread.
lock plz.
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4th February 2008, 12:31pm
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#7 | | FOR YOUR PLEASURE
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
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Originally Posted by Rio Ohki  Doesn't strike me as particularly professional of a promotions company to come on to a public forum to specifically slate a band either.
No offence, but if you came looking for sympathy, you're going to be sorely dissappointed. | Agreed. This is all a bit too playground for my liking.
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4th February 2008, 1:02pm
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#8 | | Frankly my dear.....  Editor
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
It doesn't read as particularly slating to me. The band did not show up. All possible avenues were apparently looked at to contact them as they failed to contact the venue with negative results. If a band is to be taken seriously then communicating to a venue if you can't turn up sounds reasonable to me, and would probably ensure that they can play there again. If one of the band was, as is suggested, seen on an internet site whilst they should have been at the venue, I don't think it is unreasonable for one of them to advise the venue of the problem, which may well have been more than reasonable and understandable. Whilst it may not be something that is seen to often, warning promotors of potential issues seems reasonable.
Although, I may have worded the post a little differently.
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4th February 2008, 1:04pm
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#9 | | (suicidemachine)
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
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Originally Posted by Foxglove
Although, I may have worded the post a little differently.
| something along the lines of..."GAYLORDS are a bunch of cunts"? | |
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4th February 2008, 1:10pm
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#10 | | Here we go!
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
More to the point. Never heard of the band so whos arsed?
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4th February 2008, 1:11pm
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#11 | | (suicidemachine)
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
any promoters in Glasgow who have heard of them? | |
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4th February 2008, 1:19pm
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#12 | | Implied Idiot
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=189196625
It will be interesting to see how long the PhP comment is left on the page. And by interesting I mean a waste of time. | |
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4th February 2008, 6:36pm
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#13 | | Super Discunt
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
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Originally Posted by Foxglove It doesn't read as particularly slating to me. The band did not show up. All possible avenues were apparently looked at to contact them as they failed to contact the venue with negative results. If a band is to be taken seriously then communicating to a venue if you can't turn up sounds reasonable to me, and would probably ensure that they can play there again. If one of the band was, as is suggested, seen on an internet site whilst they should have been at the venue, I don't think it is unreasonable for one of them to advise the venue of the problem, which may well have been more than reasonable and understandable. | It's nothing to do with the venue. It is the promoters problem, nobody elses. Perhaps the band had a problem with the promoter. Quote:
Originally Posted by Foxglove Whilst it may not be something that is seen to often, warning promotors of potential issues seems reasonable. | No, it is unprofessional and is more likely to put other bands off working with a promoter who appears so childish. Particularly a Pay To Play promoter. Next month I'll have completely forgotten the name of the band in question, as will most people, but next year I'll still remember the first impression that PettyHumanPromotions have made with this thread. Bit of an own goal really. I wouldn't be likely to work with them based on this thread, i daresay that others are of a similar opinion. | |
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4th February 2008, 7:51pm
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#14 | | Homeboy fucked a Martian.
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
Think the clincher for me is the 'fannies' tag.
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4th February 2008, 7:57pm
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#15 | | Banned
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| Re: Organising a gig? Avoid this band!
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Originally Posted by Rio Ohki Think the clincher for me is the 'fannies' tag. | The "unprofessional" tag, on the other hand, seems totally appropriate- but not in the way it was intended. | |
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