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[Ross]

I posted this in another thread but the thread was wildly off tangent and thus am starting anew one. Neil / Dave / whoever please move to an appropriate forum if this is deemed unappropriate:

Promoting in Aberdeen:

1.Generally word of mouth is the best method. Especially after a band have played. "Did you see so and so last night...etc?"

2.Postering is very time consuming and few places will let you put up posters and if you have numerous then you can forget about it.

3.There being no places for legal / rented flypostering unlike every other city in Scotland.

4.People are more inclined to go and see something they know than something they don`t and as thus the "local" scene in Aberdeen is very strong.

5.Promoting 1 gig or 2 gigs with double backed flyers etc is hard work. Promoting 10 gigs at once is a bloody nightmare unless you have a band that sells themselves.

6.Aberdeen is the slowest sell out on almost every tour except: Oasis / Stone Roses / Ian Brown etc and what you would generally conceive to have a laddish beer drinking following.

7.People are very quick to judge and to knock something back.

8.People always moan about something when it has gone / passed / finished / split up etc.

9.People are lazy when it comes to trying to find out about gigs and you really need to ram it down their throats each time to get a result.

I take a deep breath as now i`ll be berated beyond existance.

Ross

funnily enough i agree with you completley, you say that postering and flyering takes time... maybe that is what is needed. more time.

[Skacel]

yes hire people to do this job, advertising is an important part of running a business

[soundian]

Originally Posted by reject_monkey

funnily enough i agree with you completley, you say that postering and flyering takes time... maybe that is what is needed. more time.

read the rest of the sentence.

there are plenty of places. most other venues let you poster, local music shops, ki:lau retro rebels...

[soundian]

Originally Posted by reject_monkey

there are plenty of places. most other venues let you poster, local music shops, ki:lau retro rebels...

Fine if you have one or two, not so good if you have 20 or 30.

good point. rented flypostering would be a gr8 idea.

[Ross]

Originally Posted by reject_monkey

there are plenty of places. most other venues let you poster, local music shops, ki:lau retro rebels...

I refer you to point 2... "numerous posters"

i refer you to my post before your post. aah, fuckit, if you have multiple posters yoor fucked, aberdeen's just shite innit.

[soundian]

Originally Posted by Ross

3.There being no places for legal / rented flypostering unlike every other city in Scotland.


9.People are lazy when it comes to trying to find out about gigs and you really need to ram it down their throats each time to get a result.

point 3, disgraceful. I'm sure the council could come up with some sort of scheme which would pay for itself. Oh, wait a minute, what am I saying.

I think the 65 days of static thread shows point 9 to be an unassailable truth.