Hi Martin, where are you based and what sort of music? We’ve just recorded our first demo and just want people to hear it let alone pay for it!
In previous bands the most success I’ve had was through putting on our own gigs, inviting good bands we’d played with and then we’d get invited to one of their big home town shows.
It meant that rather playing 1 big home town gigs and 8/9 rubbish (no crowd, awful bands, schoolboy promoters/sound techs and various combinations of the above) out of town ones we’d do 1 big home town show, 2 big out of town shows and maybe 2 or 3 ‘hit and hope’ out of town ones. Much better for morale, selling merch, getting paid and gaining fans than relying on “promoters”. Only trouble is it took us a while to find a number of bands that were good and had a similar work ethic. And then we split up.
Do you have any previews online?
Gareth
http://www.shipofgold.bandcamp.com
(current band)