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Gigs => Gig details => WA Gigs => Topic started by: Myron on January 29, 2010, 09:10:03 AM
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Should be a great night, hope to see you all there! :headbang:
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The rumour mill has it that you boys have been asking a few bands to play this show and then cancelling them. If there is any truth to this, you guys are playing a foolish game. The bands you book and then cancel won't be leaping to support you in the future, now will they?
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The rumour mill has it that you boys have been asking a few bands to play this show and then cancelling them.
It does happen, often unintentionally. Out of every 20 bands I ask to play a gig, usually only 4 are able to play. It makes sense to ask more bands than you need, instead of asking one by one. It's time consuming to wait for everyone's reply before asking the next band, and very rarely do all the bands say yes. From all my shows I've only had to 'cancel' one band due to this.
However, if it was just a "We've changed our mind" sort of thing, that could easily come back and bite you.
Eitherway, I'm looking forward to hearing The Ascent's new album.
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The rumour mill has it that you boys have been asking a few bands to play this show and then cancelling them. If there is any truth to this, you guys are playing a foolish game. The bands you book and then cancel won't be leaping to support you in the future, now will they?
This is an interesting rumour, so much so that i felt the need to sign up just to explain the events so it doesn't turn into 'The Ascent Vs The World'
First things first, there is some truth to this comment. There was one band, who through our fault, got confirmed to be playing, then cancelled around 24 hours after. This band are friends of ours and we have apologised for this, and hope we can make it up to them.
For this show we initially started asking bands one-by-one around novemeber/december i believe. This was tedious, as we weren't getting much interest and were wasting time in the process (as stated in the previous post, we could have used the heads up :laugh: ). We did however get some interest for 3 out of the 4 spots, so we told these bands that we would contact them closer to the show to confirm. In early January we began checking in with the previously confirmed bands. This was more time consuming than we anticipated due to many people taking a break over the christmas/new year period. We set an internal deadline for confirmations, as one band had not replied and the show was getting closer.
This is where we screwed up. We asked our friends if they could play (assuming we weren't getting a confirmation), then on the same day received the final correspondence we had been waiting for, thus having to cancel on our friends.
After this, to fill the final spot, we asked 3 or 4 bands at the same time (as stated as the best most efficient way from our friend at iron guardian), advising them that we know its a bit of a short notice but we need a conformation as soon as possible. From this, i am 99.9999% sure we only received one response and this was within a day or two to confirm.
The End.
From the quoted comment above, we assumed that there was a difference between asking and booking. We asked probably asked around 12 bands if they were interested, and for a brief 24 hour period booked 5.
If anyone has any queries or problems with us they can contact me or the band and we can discuss it further.
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Onto the actual music, this should be a killer show and im spending plenty of time practicing to be able to play this stuff live.
and only $10, cheap as chips ;D
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glad we sorted that out eh WFers? ;)
two weeks away now, should be a killer night! ..R.D. will be playing 80% new material :)
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Sounds like a fair explanation. And looky, your topic just shot right to the top of the page. :)
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Thanks Travis for clearing that up. I only read this this morning and I have to apologise as it was my fault things happened the way they did. To the bands that we asked but couldn't get to play, I will personally buy you all a pint! :headbang:
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This week!!!
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It's a rare treat to see an issue actually get resolved on WF :laugh:
I can't see the poster, so could you tell me who're supporting you guys please?
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I can't see the poster, so could you tell me who're supporting you guys please?
sure thing, from first band to last,
surrender
ill vision
red descending
pyromesh
the ascent
should be great as from what i can see there is no other metal show on that night......so get on down to the rosemount to get your groove on.
we also have the cd's already and they look pretty whiz bang pop if you ask me 8)
and i believe we are heading in for the anger management show tonight so anyone who is interested tune in!
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TOMORROW NIGHT!!! :headbang:
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Tonight!!!!!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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Just want to say a big thankyou to all that came out last night and helped us launch the Cd, you are all fucking awesome.
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New ill vision sounded fucking awesome, vomited so much this morning
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It's a rare treat to see an issue actually get resolved on WF :laugh:
I can't see the poster, so could you tell me who're supporting you guys please?
especially within half a page!!