[NewMusic] Fwd: Free Public Relations and Marketing Strategies Workshops

[weasel walter]

matt - come towards the light . . . i will book a show sometime soon
where you will play to actual living people. hopefully it will give you
some hope. there is hope - it just takes some strategizing and grunt
work. if musicians aren't willing to accept that aspect of it, then
"woe-is-me" will rule the day . . . i don't accept it. 

thanks to everybody who made it out to the uptown in oakland last night
for our wacky avant garde concert. there were 70 people in the room by
the end and everybody seemed to have a great time! siomething along the
lines of this will take place every third tuesday, so look out for it. 

you can't just sit back and be magic on your instrument and hope people
will magically come to shows . . . for most of us, it's just not going to
happen. there's a strong social element to getting people to come to gigs
and if you don't bother to tap into it, then most of the time one is
looking at an empty room. 

i'm sure there's plenty of people who think i suck and i'm full of shit,
but apparently what i do have is enough moxy and energy to try to get
people to come out and see this kind of weird music. i try to make it
appealing to them somehow - you know, try to make them think it's not
going to be some painfully protracted, drawn-out exercise in repressed
chin scratching. my music isn't that and some people seem to relate to or
enjoy that.

find a fucking angle folks. i don't have it made, but i do the best with
what i've got. we all owe that to ourselves.  

ww

On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) "Matt J. Ingalls"
<ingalls at mills.edu> writes:
> my first reaction is:
>   well you can't even get people to come to concerts!