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[Chris]

Originally Posted by TheFuzzBox

I also forgot to mention the fact that a "review system" would be a big attention grabber. If you had writers to review gigs/cd's etc, you could potentially have Aberdeen's own mini version of "The Skinny" on here.

There is an articles section, just no bugger uses it. Which is a shame because what little there is on it isn't bad.

I like the idea of a promo campaign, but it all depends on the boss and how much is in the kitty.

[stuartmaxwell]

^^^^

all good points

[Neil]

Some great feedback here which makes a pleasant change.

A promo campaign to coincide with the new version of the web site (with I'm still working on - working abroad isn't helping me here) would probably be a fine idea. Exactly what such a campaign would consist of though is the question.

The Articles section has always been criminally underused. What I would ideally like to see is dedicated contributors frequently posting reviews, interviews and articles so the section almost becomes an e-zine in its own right. Trying to get people to do this kind of thing though is the challenge. We need to offer some kind of incentive (maybe even pay people to contribute?).

The web site is still making more money than it costs to keep online so there are certainly funds there to be spent on something. Any ideas are welcome as always.

[KimyReizeger]

Can that TV show be accessed? I never saw it; what exactly happened?

[spellchecker]

if the website attendance/usage drops to a level that there has to be some moderator redundancies, could i suggest that we have a poll to choose who goes, in an x-factor style public execution!

on a less serious note, there isn't much point in posting drummonds listings. because there's the advertised listings, and then there's the "oops we double booked again" listings; never the twain shall co-exist peacefully.

[soundian]

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

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.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by KimyReizeger

Can that TV show be accessed? I never saw it; what exactly happened?

It's still here:

For those of you that missed our 15 minutes of fame...

[black_matter]

Originally Posted by Neil

It's still here:

For those of you that missed our 15 minutes of fame...

I THINK that that wifey's accent is a pain in the fucking arse.

[KimyReizeger]

Has the woman got mental problems? Seriously..

Originally Posted by Dave

Comments on the site (which this quite obviously is) are housed in the Comments and Suggestions forum.

Dave - Brick wall meets head a recurring theme with you it seems for me

It is not a comment, it it is not a suggestion it is a question asking all users "why is the site so quiet these days?" it would be better being placed in a section which is viewed by more users - general discussion - music discussion

Whilst I await a reply i have a date with a brick wall, gonna gimme some loving