[reply]Regarding how I got the gig, all my hard work last year on Nursing Home is starting to pay off slowly…
That still doesn’t tell us anything about how you got the gig.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
Basically a booker who had booked us for a show at the same venue months back (based on another band’s recommendation) invited us to come back and open for Orgy.
Here is a really great quality bootleg of my favorite Orgy song “Dissention” live in '98:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sO-MEOkguU&feature=endscreen&NR=1
[reply][reply]Regarding how I got the gig, all my hard work last year on Nursing Home is starting to pay off slowly…
That still doesn’t tell us anything about how you got the gig.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
Basically a booker who had booked us for a show at the same venue months back (based on another band’s recommendation) invited us to come back and open for Orgy.[/reply]
That’s more like networking more than hard work but either way congrats… maybe this will be your boot in the door. Don’t fuck it up.
Late,
grmpysmrf
[reply][reply][reply]Regarding how I got the gig, all my hard work last year on Nursing Home is starting to pay off slowly…
That still doesn’t tell us anything about how you got the gig.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
Basically a booker who had booked us for a show at the same venue months back (based on another band’s recommendation) invited us to come back and open for Orgy.[/reply]
That’s more like networking more than hard work but either way congrats… maybe this will be your boot in the door. Don’t fuck it up.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
He invited to book us because we had good content online and he’d heard good things.
He’s inviting us again because he liked what he saw after booking us. Do you know how many bands wanted the gig?
Hence hard work paid off…
Either way this will hardly “make or break” us, but thanks for the well wishes!
Do you know how many bands wanted the gig?
Opening for Orgy? In 2013? With one member left from their “heyday” if you can call it that? I’m going to go out on a limb and say two. Maybe three, New York is a big place.
Seriously though, I hope the show goes well. I am glad to see things looking up for ya.
[reply]Do you know how many bands wanted the gig?
Opening for Orgy? In 2013? With one member left from their “heyday” if you can call it that? I’m going to go out on a limb and say two. [/reply]
Uhhh, that would be DaveySuicide and Vampires Everywhere, then, right? Not to downplay Voidy’s success, but he doesn’t exactly get upper billing on the flier. He’s hidden amongst DJ Electroballs and NipplePiercing.com or some bullcrap.
Regional shifty promoters and smaller dodgy venues are notorious for this crap. Throw as many local acts on the bill as they can, figuring each one will bring 50 or more family, friends, groupies, or fans. Maybe they even have the bands sell the tickets for them (I.e. the band has to first purchase the tickets themselves or that’s how they are paid). All they want to do is increase the head count and start pouring as many dixie cups of watered down Bud Light as they can.
As a gig attender I hate this crap. It means I’ve gotta often endure 4+ hours of barrell scrapers clanging away before I get to see the one act I actually give a damn about and I’ll probably spend a fortune in parking fees.
Back to Grumpy’s comment about the networking v. hard work. Networking IS work, Bro. That’s why it’s called NetWORK and not NetFUN or NetAWESOME. You go to places you don’t necessarily want to go, you talk to people you don’t necessarily want to talk to, you take this guy out to dinner to get that guy’s number, and then call that guy to recommend you to another guy, ad infinitum. It can be fun at times, but it is definitely hard work. And as a small time struggling band, getting known by others and having a buttload of numbers in your phone is going to be extremely important in leveraging the ability to get gigs and possibly (if the stars align properly) even get paid someday.
I go to tons of cocktail parties, conferences, council meetings, etc. just to rub shoulders and collect business cards. Everyone knows who I am and even though many of them have never worked WITH me, they already know and trust me, so whether I need to call in those chips for an endorsement, a favor, or I want to get a new job, I’ve built quite a fabric around me through networking. But it was certainly work.
[reply][reply]Do you know how many bands wanted the gig?
Opening for Orgy? In 2013? With one member left from their “heyday” if you can call it that? I’m going to go out on a limb and say two. [/reply]
Uhhh, that would be DaveySuicide and Vampires Everywhere, then, right? Not to downplay Voidy’s success, but he doesn’t exactly get upper billing on the flier. He’s hidden amongst DJ Electroballs and NipplePiercing.com or some bullcrap.
Regional shifty promoters and smaller dodgy venues are notorious for this crap. Throw as many local acts on the bill as they can, figuring each one will bring 50 or more family, friends, groupies, or fans. Maybe they even have the bands sell the tickets for them (I.e. the band has to first purchase the tickets themselves or that’s how they are paid). All they want to do is increase the head count and start pouring as many dixie cups of watered down Bud Light as they can.
As a gig attender I hate this crap. It means I’ve gotta often endure 4+ hours of barrell scrapers clanging away before I get to see the one act I actually give a damn about and I’ll probably spend a fortune in parking fees.
Back to Grumpy’s comment about the networking v. hard work. Networking IS work, Bro. That’s why it’s called NetWORK and not NetFUN or NetAWESOME. You go to places you don’t necessarily want to go, you talk to people you don’t necessarily want to talk to, you take this guy out to dinner to get that guy’s number, and then call that guy to recommend you to another guy, ad infinitum. It can be fun at times, but it is definitely hard work. And as a small time struggling band, getting known by others and having a buttload of numbers in your phone is going to be extremely important in leveraging the ability to get gigs and possibly (if the stars align properly) even get paid someday.
I go to tons of cocktail parties, conferences, council meetings, etc. just to rub shoulders and collect business cards. Everyone knows who I am and even though many of them have never worked WITH me, they already know and trust me, so whether I need to call in those chips for an endorsement, a favor, or I want to get a new job, I’ve built quite a fabric around me through networking. But it was certainly work.[/reply]
Point taken.
Late,
rmpysmrf
Yeah, more or less Gunnar is correct. Though Gunnar why you’d be annoyed at the prospect of seeing more bands for the same price you’re paying, even if they suck, confuses me. Just show up late if it’s so horrible to endure…
However my point being even in this scenario just getting on the bill means being selected over a bunch of other acts. We are not paying to play though; at least we have that dignity.
And it’s not just networking but delivering live at shows.
Davelybob, thank you for your unnecessarily douchey comment. Please take your negative bullshit elsewhere.
It’s not the billing a bunch of bands that pisses me off. If these places had an actual schedule I’d be okay with it. It’s the unpredictability and haphazzardness of it that pisses me off. If so-and-so is supposed to go on at 10pm and they do, I’m a happy camper. And I’m not saying this with any knowledge of your particular event, just bitching in general.
Congratulations on the gig, by the way. While I was trying to put some perspective to some issues I was not intending to downplay what you’ve achieved and wish you all the best with the show.
Hahaha, love you too Void. Ferrealz. I’d seriously be much more interested in seeing Nursing Home than Orgy. Just having a couple pissy days and saw an opportunity to indulge in some easy snark. You ever wanna book a Midwest tour, I will hook you up in the Louie-MO. Have a good show. Seriously.
Hahaha, love you too Void. Ferrealz. I’d seriously be much more interested in seeing Nursing Home than Orgy. Just having a couple pissy days and saw an opportunity to indulge in some easy snark. You ever wanna book a Midwest tour, I will hook you up in the Louie-MO. Have a good show. Seriously.
It’s all good. I figured as much. What kills me is that we are better than all of these bands. I think after this EP we will have much more recognition. The single and first music video should be out before the Orgy show, with the rest following about a month later. Excited for you guys to hear this…
Yeah yeah, CD’s, networking, Orgy, practice . . .
No one gives a crap.
Just tell us WHAT’S GOING ON WITH INTEGRITY THESE DAYS???
Yeah yeah, CD’s, networking, Orgy, practice . . .
No one gives a crap.
Just tell us WHAT’S GOING ON WITH INTEGRITY THESE DAYS???
Haha well first off she is legal now…
Actually I told her about this forum and how she is a celebrity here and she was laughing.
I don’t see her as often as I’d like because she doesn’t live in the city. She just comes in for events and stuff. I’ll likely see her at the show with Orgy.
I must say she is becoming quite beautiful as she matures. To me she is looking more and more like Neve Campbell in that movie Wild Things…
Here is a new picture to keep you satisfied:
Thanks! Sort of Neve Campbell-ish, but I think she’s got a more ethnic flavor, like Lisa Bonet (Denise Huxtable from the Cosby Show) or something.
You know, you could always try emulating the route Orgy (and Marilyn Manson, for that matter) took to stardom - take a new wave song and remake it, but LOUD!
Yeah, what was that song Orgy did? It was a New Order song, but I can’t even recall which one. They were a bit of a one-hit-wonder (and they “borrowed” their hit from someone else, haha!)
Blue Monday
Yeah, what was that song Orgy did? It was a New Order song, but I can’t even recall which one. They were a bit of a one-hit-wonder (and they “borrowed” their hit from someone else, haha!)
They are a bit of a one hit wonder I suppose as far as mainstream is concerned, though technically their first album ‘Candyass’ spawned another single and video “Stitches” which did well after “Blue Monday” broke them, and I believe their follow up record also went platinum though it definitely didn’t leave a mark like the first…
Boy were those different times…
I just remembered that they had really gay hair and that one of them was named Deepak Chopra or something. I just looked them up . . . . holy crap, that hair was gayer than I remember.
Totally lame band…