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Originally Posted by Jonny Lucifer
More often than not, you don't. I contacted both the EE and P&J when Psycho A Go-Go toured with The Wildhearts (who had a top 20 single around that time), and they weren't interested. Ditto when Neil Leyton has been in this country.
EDIT: And I was working as a press officer for RGU at the time, I knew all the journalists, they just simply weren't interested in covering anything other than the blandest AOR and cover acts.
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I wouldn't classify Jo as bland AOR and she isn't a cover act but she has got coverage, she was covered when she played with Marillion, when she played with Midge Uere and an interview. I also knew the journalists at the Jpurnals and have never had a problem getting coverage, it may be that the music bothe the Wildhearts and Psycho a Go Go were playing isn't generally the kind of music that they perceive the readership of their publications listening to, that's not a dig at you but they wioll paly to their target market. I've never had too much problems getting them to listen, you don't always get a response, but soemthimes you do, and thats the only way to do it, keep trying. If you hit them just before they go to press you may get a piece too as it gives them something to fil;l the space. We've not had luck with every press release we've sent to the P&J, but I'd reckon we've had about 1/3rd success rate which is pretty good comeback so to say they're not interested isn't true !
Cheers
Stuart