[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index][
Author Index]
Re: Connecting to fanbase / Touring / some encouraging figures
For what you're saying, Matt, Topspin is pretty cool. I think it's
www.topspin.com... but could be wrong.
Richard Sales
Sent from my IPad
www.glasswing.com
On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the live show aspect as you say below is important.
>
> The connection that I'm trying to make is mostly to people who
> download one's CDs and like them - figuring out how to make it easy to
> get them on an announcement list. (And then to sort the announcement
> list by localities, so that people on the other side of the country
> are not bored by the announcements of local shows.)
>
> Arguably, you can't force people on your mailing list. You mostly want
> to make it easy to find and sign up for.
>
> --
> Matt Davignon
> mattdavignon@gmail.com
> www.ribosomemusic.com
> Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com
> Rigs! http://www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt
>
> Steve Uccello <stevebassbird@yahoo.com> was all:
>> Matt, finding your audience can be a very long and discouraging task, I
>> feel like I am terrible at it. Being as strategically efficient as
>> possible and taking any 'shortcuts'one can are definitaly essential (if
>> you figure any out let us know!) But to me it seems the best way to go
>> about it is to offer something very high quality, not meaning any
>> qualitative value on playing etc, just being really good at whatever it
>> is you do (whether it's a classical concert pianist or a performance
>> artist who smears strawberry pudding all over themselves while playing
>> a kazoo, you know what I mean) and then offering that thing
>> consistently for a long period of time. As well as playing, I've put
>> on a few shows & house concerts around the Monterey Bay area (promoting
>> and playing w/ Steve Lawson, Lobelia, Bryan Beller/Kira Small, Bill
>> Walker, Atmos Trio, Gustaf Fjelstrom) I even opened for Kim Boekbinder
>> as well as Saul Kaye. And it seemed I had to do a quite a few
>> before people even got the idea they were happening and worth coming
>> to. And that was even with a few radio spots on KPIG and flyering,
>> emailing etc. Seems people (& I'm totally guilty of this too) go: 'I
>> missed it this time, but I'll make the next one' and so it goes. Seems
>> good to also team up with other folks and help promote them, and to
>> just keep doing it unflinchingly for a super long time maintaining a
>> high quality experience %100 of the time. I always ask myself, "am I
>> doing my audience a favor or are they doing me a favor by coming and
>> listening?" But, I've rambled long enough! And hey, let's try to do a
>> show together sometime, (seriously) or at least meet up and jam or hang
>> out! Good luck with everything, it certainly is tricky to get things
>> off the ground and even more so when you do something 'out of the box'
>> oh that makes me think of a cool panel discussion Steve Lawson did
>> about out of the box music, check it out here:
>>
>> http://www.stevelawson.net/2009/07/podcast-of-the-outside-the-box-panel-from-unconvention/
>>
>> Best wishes, Steve Uccello
>>
>> http://www.uccelloprojects.blogspot.com/
>> www.steveuccello.com
>>
>>
>>
>