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Originally Posted by soundian
After listening for years to people saying "what a good idea a gig guide for Aberdeen would be" I've done some basic research.
It's financially viable, I've got 1/2 the venues needed to finance it in less than 4 hours after getting my first print quote, what I need is volunteers to write for it and, crucially, someone to run the associated website.
I've got enough time to co-ordinate things but not enough to write articles, reviews, previews etc. There's no money in this but I think with some (OK, a lot) of help, it's possible to supply a comprehensive gig guide (no Market Street crooners, space is too valuable) with an associated website which can explain more. Probably with a "local band encyclopedia" so we don't have to keep thinking new things up for each band.
If anyone's interested, has suggestions (bear in mind that the paper version will be very limited in space ) for the website, want's to help, whatever, give me a PM.
It'll be a lot of work to set up but I reckon we could run it with 10-15 people doing a couple of hours a week each.
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Count me in in some form Ian. As I have said there are things circuling around inside the council that I know about but independent inititiative, I feel, will once again show them the way which they will most likely ignore or carry on producing 'The Spot'?
Nice one!
Jim
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