Bands
The live music scene in the UK is still active but diminishing due to corporate entities acting in the name of progress. To see a live rock band of any value you have to ask your local musicians on what’s on. Pubs, clubs, social clubs, festivals and arenas alike have a range of musical taste. The advent of talent shows like X-Factor and The Voice have rendered most rock guitarists to becoming YouTube stars. It’s either a live gig on YouTube or a bedroom guitarist teaching lick number 1 or lick number 2. It’s the equivalent of a dildo in sex. People prefer the real thing mostly and live rock bands are being marginalised by TV brainwashing in the form of Karaoke and artistes crying and begging to become rich and famous.
Being cool is now officially over – you have to have a sob story, be totally inexperienced and beg and cry for rich guys like Simon Cowell to sign you up. It’s a bit like the thumbs up or down in the Colosseum. If you’re a rock guitarist, well rich people don’t like your politics, so they have created the meme of being out of date! How old is a fuck? Did that date? No! So don’t let the media establishment condition you to mediocrity. When the next wave of Rock Guitar Bands occurs, there will be no room for shark faced greed gnomes like Simon Cowell. Stock, Aitkin and Waterman did the same in the 80’s until Guns’n’Roses blew out all the nursery rhyme shite pop in the charts. It’s just a cycle. At the moment it’s shiny happy people who are in your face, yes everything Simon Cowell touches turns into plastic. 2013 is the pinnacle of ‘ultimate shallow’.
For musicians who want to self promote, here are some tips. Streamline your marketing and promotion with niche streaming web sites. The amazing online tv rage is right here and growing. Internet marketing attention is focused on broadband streaming media and nothing could be better for your music than a slice of that attention. This is a marriage made in heaven with streaming media and music video. With the free, built into Microsoft, Movie Maker almost everyone can take their audio file and with a little creativity make it into a compelling video.
Music videos are no longer a barrier for bands – take advantage of the online tv revolution. Just pop some cool pictures or some video shorts from your mini-cam, lay in your audio tracks and voila! You have made a simple music video to get that song out. A video with title, credits, lyrics and a message where viewers can buy. It will more than suffice as a promotional tool. Don’t forget “Where is the next gig?” Who has not heard of YouTube or Google Video? These amazing amalgamations of everything under the sun stand as monolithic compendiums.
There must be more than 100 million videos on these sites containing an inexhaustible variety of material covering every topic under the sun. This makes them the world’s largest central repository for video. Like a dictionary containing every word, it has a drawback.. it cannot be read even if using an index to find something. If you’re not the most popular featured darlings, your message never sees the light of day, except by you. Google’s top 100 videos are populated with soft porn girlies and that’s hard to compete with. Never let it be said that having your music video on Youtube or Google should not be done. Au contrary, that is the first thing you would do followed by posting that video to your MySpace account. What did you say? You don’t have a MySpace account? Then go get an account now! The accounts are free, easy and worth the effort.
