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Originally Posted by theghostofcain
Clearly not, as the first question I was asked was "where are you from?" as opposed to "can you pull a crowd?" It doesn't matter if we could pull a crowd, we aren't local enough to Aberdeen to be classed as local. I personally wouldn't class a band from Mintlaw/New Deer as 'on tour' when playing Aberdeen. And in a similar point to Pictishpunkgirl, is a band that rehearses in Aberdeen but doesn't actually live there, still classed as an Aberdeen band?
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It's all about bums on seats, as was explained in the succinct but depressingly accurate treatise on the financial aspects of gigging from a promoters point of view.
To put it mathematically:
You live out of town=most of your friends live out of town=hardly anyone at the gig.
You live in town=most of your friends live in town=maybe, just maybe, enough of them will come through the door to pay the bills.
Anyway, as I said, there are enough venues and promoters in Aberdeen so it shouldn't be difficult to get a gig.
(btw, he didn't ask the question "where are you from? personally I think he looked at your myspace, saw you were from out of town and only had 21 "friends" and decided there was too much risk of none of the aforementioned bums being on seats anywhere in the vicinity of the gig)