Slipery Ice
Do you know the feeling that you have to move so carfull each step you make. Like one misstep will make you fall down. That is how I feel right now. But at the same time I just know I cant stop walking. Each time that I feel like I found some footing it disappears.
So why the depressing intro?
Today we had a meeting with Joost, the booker of ‘het kasteel’. He is still willing to help us out, but only in the prize we won. A opening act for a already established Dutch act. Today we learned that the first upcoming chance is at least a year away. We really needed this gig as a selling point o our resume. But I’m not realy planning to wait on it for at least a year. In that time I hope that we have build enough of a name to have others open for us. So it is starting to look like that the Rijn en Wouden Popprijs is going to be a humongous disappointment after all. I’m going to contact them to see if there is anything they CAN do for us, but I must admit that I’m loosing hope.
Of course there is not just all bad news.
On 16 December we are competing for a place in the soundtrack of the Movie ‘Deal!’. It’s a movie that will be show all over the Netherlands and the soundtrack will be available in stores all around the Netherlands. There will be two bands that will progress to the next round. One chosen by a Jury. That Jury will consist of the writers of the movie and some other people. The other band will receive a wildcard by popular vote, the audience choice.
The contest will be held in Jc Dynamo in Eindhoven. The doors will open at 20:00.
There is also a verry special gig. Not so long ago we played the Moonstock festival in Kaffee Lambiek in Tilburg. Steve, who works there behind the bar, really liked us. So much that he has invited us to play at his birthday party in that same Café. Usually we don’t play private parties, but as it turns out this isn’t a private party.
The café will be open for everyone. So all off you are welcome as well. The party will be at 22 February and the doors open at 21:00.
And than there are our diabolical plans of course. We want to realease our new cd in may 2008. Of course we have to tackle the small problem of writing it first. It’s supposed to be our first full cd. We hope to find a producer to help us out and if we’re lucky a label that will do our A&R or maby even our production. So if you know anyone who does whatever in the music business, put them on our track (and us on theres)
When everything is ready to go we nead a mail squadron as large as we can get it to Bombard special targets (radio stations), one at a time, with requests. At the same time we will start with our publicity bureau to get the attention of the media and we will start promo actions at concerts of bands we think have an audience that can appreciate our music.
For the purpose of the promo teams and the mail squadron we are looking for volunteers.
We are also looking for other great idea’s to increase our brand awareness (brand being our bandname)
It seems we will be calling for help for quite a few times before we will final achieve our goal.
On a other note. Gert also reads my LJ, and he was verry moved by your replies to my posts on the band.