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Originally Posted by TheFuzzBox
I'd like to see Drummonds and The Tunnels getting more involved in this site also. I.E posting up gig listings as soon as they have them, and each one having a forum on the site...etc
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I know from experience that that's not likely to happen. If you take a look at the Granite City Guide website now, remove the lemon tree/music hall listings from September onwards, and you have a fairly good idea of how many promoters actually promote. I think there was 3 or 4 small promoters that actually submitted listings, about the same amount of bands and no venues (without my frantic pleas just before the deadline).
I picked up very few gigs from this site (ab-mus) as well so it wasn't just a case of the website being "obscure", not with 500 "unique visits" a day.
Maybe this is why:
There's a school of thought that says promoters should promote and bands shouldn't because it's not their job. Bollocks I say. It's not just the gigs you're promoting, it's your band, and if you can't be bothered even taking an hour for every gig to post on any free listings, send out to your mailing list etc, anything that costs nothing but might get even 1 extra person to your gig, then I hope whatever you want to achieve from your live music remains a distant dream. You don't deserve it.