Unless you're headlining a venue to a few thousand people, I'd keep the sets under an hour. The standard is normally 30 mins for support, 45 for headliner. Although 'pub gigs' tend to break this by giving one band a tonne of time, as they are used to covers bands...
The Music Lab lol, what are you talking a bout??? my family has been in the business for decades, and 90 minutes is the norm for my godmothers band at any place they have played in Europe. Trust me, it wasn't for thousands of people. If you plan on getting paid a decent amount, it seems like 2 times 45 minutes, or one set of 90 is standard.
If you're only selling tickets to family and friends, how do you get new fans from gigs? While I agree selling out a show is awesome (and potentially very profitable), doing it this way doesn't offer much room for gaining fans. I think this is where opening for well- known bands is good for bands.
By saying you sold out your first gig, And therefore proving you can move tickets you're far more likely to get great support slots! Create yourself a solid fanbase from people you know, then focus on growing it!
Something I've seen in Bristol is a company called the MJR Group who put on big shows for touring bands, they're always putting on Bristol bands for their shows
I really enjoyed this episode! Do love the rocking chair, it's an ace venue! My new band recently played our debut gig, we headlined Leadmill and sold out the small room. Not exactly sure how we managed it but it was incredible!
To me it makes more sense to play a bunch of gigs as you start out and build up a crowd. If you want to play for your friends and family just throw a house party
Yeah!.. Just make sure to (Un- obnoxiously) shout about it on social media to get the attention of the right people, although I get that's a lot harder to do that I make it sound!
Yeah, as long as you make sure to really try and fill each and every gig! Obviously hometown shows are going to be easier and fuller, but it helps to try everywhere!
Can you do a video on where would be best to do a debut gig? and If you can't organize your own, how to get on a gig if you don't have any live recording but have an EP?
You don't need any recordings to get gigs, live or studio. You can just contact local promoters!... That being said if you wanted to set one up yourself just pick a good venue in your city that holds 80-100 people!
Something I've been curious about for a while is how do you play other cities when you're a small band but following these steps of playing a small amount of shows because like you said it's hard for a support band to gain a lot of buzz about their band because they're not the headliner but in other cities you may not have many contacts there who can come to your show so it would be a bad idea to headline as you wouldn't be able to cover your costs
can yous do a video about copyrighting music? my band and i are releasing an ep and we just want to make sure everything is secure about it first so we dont get fucked over haha thanks and you lads looking forward to new royal blood chunes?
James O at a very low monthly payment Distrokid can get your music copyrighted and can also handle licensing for you music as well. AND they also distribute your music to iTunes, Spotify and 100 other music outlets and you keep 100% of your royalties
I'm still in school, so quite a lot of my social media followers and fans may not be able to come. Should I live stream it to please fans or hold out to try and force up ticket sales?
What is this cycle where people are playing live in front of an audience but not gaining more fans? That makes no sense. Even if there are fewer people, at every single gig, there should be at least some. Even if there's just one person, that should be one more fan that you gain. If you're playing in front of audiences and people aren't liking it, do you really think that, its the performing that's the issue? Like wow, nobody liked my music, that's because I was not playing to enough people? wtf.
I don't think, provided you can get gigs, that you should stop yourself because of your age! A band local to us were gigging since they were 12 and had signed to a major label before they were 18! Don't let it stop you!
If your band is essentially not performing at all. (1-2x) per year, and I guess relying only on online marketing to have people here your recording.. I guess it doesn't really matter why even bother with all this. You're only playing a live show once in a while, you're not really a live performing band.
