Nothing beats hopping aboard the bandwagon. With every Tom, Dick, and Metal Hammer doing one, Dr. Steel decided to create his own. Why? Because he wants attention. Despicable, isn’t he?
Metal Hammer circa 1999, when Machinehead’s Rob Flynn was still sporting his Backstreet Boys do.
The picture says it all. Five smarmy kids making faces and hand signs. Bro-core indeed.
Ok, some really simple and awesome tips on how to spread the message of your band.
Tip:
1. I don’t know if this is a must, but if you are signed to a record company, make them publish your art on Spotify. Spotify is a must nowadays, sure, it might not give the bands and artists loads of money, but hey, it is legal and people loves it. File-sharing is good, great and awesome, but as a long-term I think that we all should install ourself on some streaming/online service for our musical cravings. And for 99 crones a month you will get millions of songs right in your mobile device (iPhone/Android e.t.c) without retarded commercial breaks (its free to use with retarded commercial breaks). And the best of all, you can stop buying ugly CD’s and start focusing on your LP/Vinyl collection.
Update – 3 March: I just read that you do not need to be a signed band to be published on Spotify, check out this LINK for more information
2. Spam sites like Rockhospital.com, I’ve heard that they love to spread the art of music through reviews, news and interviews. (Also, their “Video of the Day” is an awesome feature)
3. Rape your MySpace page with your songs, get millions of “friends”, spread the link to everything and everyone. Copy your MySpace link on your merchandise (stickers, thongs, t-shirts, hats, caps, shoes, skirts, wallets e.t.c) and I will promise you that you will be seen, by everyone and everything.
4. Stay in touch with your fans, party with them, be nice to them, give them stuff e.t.c – Fans loves bands, so if you love them, your love will promise you fame and fortune.
5. Play as many gigs as possible, contact your local venues if you can play there, get a smaller/bigger fanbase in-town and slowly work your way out of that shit-hole.
6. Join as many competition as you can with your band (some Swedish examples are: Rockkarusellen, Emergenza e.t.c)
To Be Continued…
I will update this post as soon as I find more useful tips, some of these tips are already known by your brain, but is worth reading once or twice for your brain to remember them.
Rockhospital.com’s preeminent musical buffet is back! If you thought you had enough of Dr. Steel’s ramblings last year, welcome to a new nightmare. You see, when he began this Thrash Feast in ’09 a slew of impressive releases had just poured in from all over the world begging to be scrutinized. We’re already two months into 2010 and surprise, surprise: solid efforts from everyone’s favorite genre continue to flood Dr. Steel’s playlist. Whupping unholy ass for this installment is Overkill’s impressive 16th studio outing, “Ironbound.”
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Well yes, another hardrock act will be doing their debute in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest (Melodifestivalen, whatever) and it’s (as some of you might know) the band Crucified Barbara. Personally, I think they have a good chance with the song “Heaven or Hell”, a ballad with the Barbara touch that you are craving for. So let us vote the shit out of these girls, and hope they will go to Globen. If you want to listen to a preview of the song, go to svtplay.se (I don’t know if it works for people outside of Sweden, comment about it if it doesn’t)
I also think that you can follow the contest for anywhere in the world through their live broadcast @ svtplay.se/v/1866917/melodifestivalen/deltavling_3
A week or so ago, I got the chance to see the Backyard Babies live in Paris. After having announced they would be on an “indefinite hiatus” after this tour, this gig kind of felt like “the last gig”. Are they breaking up? That’s what everyone was asking each other.
The band played songs from all the albums, from “Fill Up This Bad Machine” and “Electric Suzy” from their debut album (Diesel & Power) to songs from their last one (Backyard Babies), like “Abandon” and “Nomadic”, as well as their version of “Babylon” (cover from Faster Pussycat). It was a long and diversified set.
After this awesome gig, I waited around to ask singer Nicke Borg the question everyone wanted to ask. First time, he just looked and said “Ahn, I don’t know… I don’t know.” Second time, he said there were some plans for after the tour.
“There will be some things happening, but nothing I can really say now. Nothing with the Backyard Babies, anyway.”
In an interview, Nicke had said he wanted to “pick up on everything I left. Ideas, projects, song writing partners and stuff that has nothing to do with music. I don’t have a special plan. I’m finishing my home studio and just want to get off the road and pick up where I left.
For many years, my life was a band. Just now, last couple of years, I felt I needed to realize it was just a band. Now my life is my life and my band is what I do. It’s been great, but these days it’s not my whole entire life.”
This statement is a little in contradiction with what guitarist Dregen said a while ago: “if the hiatus lasted for a year, that would be an absolute maximum”.
“We don’t speak with each other about that.” – said Nicke. “Dregen is gonna work with music, he’s a musician.”
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get anything from the guitarist, so the question remains: will they break up? Anyway, let’s hope not!
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