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Hi Thomas! (and the rest..) As one half of a 'duo that uses looping' I can tell you how we generally get booked. We usually play coffeehouses, bookstores, art galleries, and small concert venues (around 50-75 seaters). Much of the time, its word of mouth, ie, musician friends recommend us, and if it is an out of town show, we usually send a tape, along with a few newspaper articles, etc. The hardest part in getting booked is explaining what we do. Now, no where in the promo stuff does it mention 'looping' - since no one knows what that is. Hell, most people that book the shows in these places don't even know what 'new age' is. So we came up with a rather non descriptive generic name for what we do..'art music'. I know, it has a lot of faults, but it gets the people who may be booking us interested, because they dont really know what to make of it. The song we put on our demo is up at our web page: (shameless plug) http://www.ethergate.com/users/kevinr/FutureP/cd2.htm It is called 'And So You Go', its not too abstract, it involves looping, guitar synth, etc. Of course we choose a rather accesible song to put on the tape, but when we actually get there, what we play will be a bit more adventurous. My point is that its not really necessary to explain the technology, I just try to get the gig without misrepresenting ourselves. I believe that once we get there to play, the people will like it, they just don't know they like it before we get there. :) One of the reasons I believe we get booked relatively often is that it is vastly different from anyone else playing the same kind of places. Most musicians playing the same places are your basic acoustic guitar type, what you would expect in any coffeehouse anywhere. I live just north of Clearwater, Florida, and I'd bet its a little different in Norway. Dave Eichenebrger ********************************************************************* 'Future Perfect' - progressive art music - visit our website at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8082 -----Original Message----- From: Woehni <hovard@online.no> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 2:09 AM Subject: Getting LooPGigs My question is this: How in the H.. do you get the gigs?? How do approach the venues? I can`t picture myself telling them " I play guitar into a recorder and build clouds of sound , wich I then play over." and actually get a gig.