At what point do we start promoting the hell out of this gig? How many people here don't have tickets but have every intention of getting them? Does anyone mind if we start letting the rest of the world know?

I don't have tickets yet, but I plan to book the day off work to go to the gig, so I'll be getting the tickets soon.

It's over a month away. I suggest that we start making a noise about it with a month to go, i.e. on the 20th, nine days from now. Hopefully anyone here who wants a ticket will have one by then.

a month would be perfect. and petester! boy did annoy your brother over msn messenger.

I emailed JB to see if i can add the gig info back on the site yet and got a reply earlier, it made me laugh so here it is:

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Hi Ste

Yeah - put the gig details back on there. Why not. Make it as big as poss!
Let everyone know that there will be some new songs and that it will be a
marvellous evening. There will be everything from gay sex to live hat
manufacture and I will be unveiling a new chord.
Cheers!

JB

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So, promote as much as you like as JB has officially said we can.. give it a little while though so Lazyboy can sort his tickets B)

Heh, cheers.

I should be sorting it out mid next week, then I'll help you all advertise it ;)

In your own time! :D

But seriously, certainly nobody's pretending they have Oasis-level popularity, but a single gig with 200 capacity... that only needs 100 people to bring along a friend and that's it. Get to it!

We do have almost 100 users on here too now and i'm sure some people will bring more than on friend.. if only a quarter of the people on here go and bring one or two friends it's gonna be a good start to selling it out..

Really? What was going on there? I'm sure I was never as annoying when I was his age!

If we're gonna make an effort to promote the gig, thought having one topic where we can talk about it and coordinate our efforts would be a good idea so i've used this one..

I posted the news up on the Teenage Fanclub message board and there's quite a bit of interest! :D One person from there has definitely said they're going...

we were tryin to work out how it came to be that you are on my msn contact list. i asked how old he was, he got rather upset.

i sleep with the lights on.

hey! according to the 'record collectors hand book 2000'(or something along those lines), the 'lava' single (lava/changing/streets are paved...) is worth £4. and the sun! e.p (c.d/ yellow vinyl) is worth £8 (if mint)

woo! i own a cd that has increased in value at some point in its life!

i know, but at half stupid at night (actually, nearly quarter to very stupid)
it's something to get excited about.

I noticed before that the Sun EP was worth that much, but it never goes for that amount on eBay! Amazon has helped devalue CDs as well, because of the second hand marketplace it offers. This means that rare singles suddenly aren't that rare because everyone's going through their old stuff and putting them on there, so supply outstrips demand. I'm not running it down at all, I have to stress - selling my old stuff through Amazon Marketplace has single-handedly kept me solvent for the last five months...

Regarding promoting the gig, I'm going to do a little bit of work on that right now, starting with the message board of a certain band beginning with 'W'...

w...w... weezer?


hehe. it's gonna rock!

Nope, the other 'W' band, the one that's prefixed with a 'The'.

To be honest, I wouldn't dream of bothering with the Weezer message board, it seems to consist almost entirely of people slinging abuse at each other! And almost all of them seem to hate virtually everything Weezer have ever done, each clinging onto one album or so in the hope that the next thing the band will do is make another exactly like it.

Seriously, in case anyone thinks I'm making this up, go to www.weezer.com and check the boards out for yourself. They make utterly painful reading!

I'll do my fair share of promoting, though people are so 'Dead' to listening to anything decent......

All they listen to is: 'Oasis, BRMC, White Stripes, Coral, Codplague etc

There all blind.....

... and deaf? :D

Mind you, I like all of the above apart from Oasis, and even they did a good album once.

Incidentally, back on the gig subject, read this...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wildhearts/message/66554

Ouch.

Bah. Who needs oxygen anyway?

I'm waiting for the announcement that, due to overwhelming popular demand, the gig has been moved to Brixton Academy. :lol:

I don't mind Oasis etc, though some bands I've mentioned have passed their sell by date....

Best Venue In London:

Forum Kentish Town! Trust Me!!!

Been there twice, once standing and once seated. It's not a great venue if you have to sit, but I'm inclined to agree with you about downstairs. Mind you, my favourite venue in London is the Brixton Academy simply because there's nothing else like it!

post - anyone like such a song

one of many replies - IT'S TOTLY KEWL

hmmm. methinks i see the point. and...

the w...
the w...
the who?

The Wonderstuff? The Wannadies?

Never been to the Forum unfortunately, tho' I've heard good things about gigs there. Brixton Academy is just a one-of-a-kind, with the crazy towers and balcony above the stage almost making you forget about the crack dealers outside the Tube Station. ;)

Don't like Brixton Academy. The floor slopes, which is great, because everyone can see the stage, but it doesn't half give you backache, standing at an angle for 3 hours.

This thread has rather lost its way...

It has, rather, hasn't it? :D

*gets out crowbar to lever discussion back on track*

Did anyone email Mark Beaumont about the gig? I remember seeing a post about that a while back.

Mark Beaumont has been contacted and fingers crossed will be at the gig - cheers Philonski!

There's some other rather exciting SS news which'll be posted on the site later tonight, I'm gonna be a bar-stweard and make you all wait till later but again, you'll all be wanting to thank Philonski too! :P

I'm gonna get some old mates to see if they can spread the word for me in Milton Keynes, about the gig. Hope there around its been 2/3 years since any contact.


I've been to Brixton Academy about 30 times now, its a top venue.

I never go to a gig if I can't stand, too boring being seated. Unless of course its all seated.

Forum forum downstairs is great, the bars fine & the sound system is better than the Astoria.

Has everyone got tickets now?

Time to start some major promotion shenanigans if so i reckon :D

I've made a template for pages of A4 stickers promoting the gig. I'll attach it to the board when I get home tonight and you can print your own if you want. I know that stickering is an offence (theoretically £1000 per sticker if you're caught) but as far as I know there's no law against 'incitement to stickering' - i.e. leaving little piles in pubs for drunk people to plaster across Camden.

I work in the criminal justice system - I'll try to find out for you!! :D

Good stuff. Sorry, I didn't get round to putting the stickers up last night... the pub was calling. Will try to do it tonight.

We need some posters to put around Camden & bus stops etc!!

There not getting any coverage, its up to us!

Hmm... well, looks like incitement to criminal damage is an offence...

http://www.oneworld.org/news/reports/nov97_gandalf.html

That's just from a Google search though - I'll try to find out properly!

Does Blu-tack count as damage?

No, cos rain can wash it away if its hard enough & the way it falls in London should be no problem!

Step up the promotional activities, folks! It's still not sold out, and to be honest if they laid on a whole tour at the minute it probably wouldn't be, but one night in a small venue in London? I'm going to start making more noise about it.

Does anyone know how much 'traditional' advertising has been done - i.e. music press? I never buy the NME these days so haven't seen whether it's been listed there yet.

No advert in the NME as yet (haven't seen this week's edition, mind). The cost of it would probably nullify the profits from a gig of this size.

They don't actually cost very much - I can't remember how much though, which isn't very helpful.