I will be the point person starting after the August meeting. Let's all come prepared to make some things happen! AWG -------Original Message------- From: Veronica Hughes <upkat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 07/18/03 09:01 AM To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [atlantaprog] making it happen: talk or action? > > I'd like to find a monthly venue as much as the next band. Believe me, I'm really sick of being mostly ignored by the regular venues and having to compete with the all the endless bands in Atlanta that all sound just like Hoobastank. We're a rock band and we have to have a rock venue. We just don't "qualify" as being the hottest thing in town, even though we work hard for our shows like everyone else, (sometimes harder from what I've seen) and yes, people even like us. That can be said for all of you guys too, so basically we're all in the exact same boat. I'd like to know if there's a plan of action to find a venue that will have us once a month? Can we start a discussion about the possibilities? Like, we already agree on contacting a venue about this, but have we talked about who, when, and how? Maybe there's a good way to do this. Maybe we might need a "collective promo package" to pitch to Jakes and others, as a means to get ourselves promoted together with a "theme?" Has anyone considered the Brandy House? How about Smith's? They have theme nights sometimes. If we don't have a collective package, how about someone collecting everyone's kits and presenting them together? Who will do any/all of this, etc.? Let's swap war stories about good and bad venues and good and bad booking agents to help figure out a better approach, and what venues to just avoid. It's just like being self employed. You have to go after business, it's probably not just going to come to you, and you can't give up after a few failures. I'll be the first to admit Atlanta totally sucks for it's live music. Every other city I have ever been to has much more appreciation for live music than this town for some god-forsaken reason (can you identify with the frustration here?) but here we all are, and we banded together for a reason: self promotion, did we not? Let's talk about plans of action. At 03:31 PM 07/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: >I still think we need to find a venue that would let prog/art rock bands play once a week...that could start the ball rolling...I know I as a booking and promoting agent sure wish that Atlanta was more open about their booking and paid the bands more. I think it sucks that venues are afraid to let bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and others of "different" styles play! Its just sad. I think if we all work together we could get something going like NEWears (I do believe that Allen brought this up recently)....I'd love to see this happen in the Atlanta area! Wade and Matthew have started it for us and Allen is ready and willing to get things moving...we all just have to pitch in! :-) >Thanks! > >PEACE >Beth >