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
). 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