I've taken a foray into arranging gigs after a long hiatus. In years gone by I sometimes drew decent sized crowds to shows but a few times were total disasters, at the time it was apparently because I wasn't on Facebook.
I did a show last night that went pretty well but only fewer than 2 dozen people turned up. I wasn't expecting an enormous crowd but I thought I had got word out. I realise with everyone getting older, family commitments, it is necessarily gonna be harder to get people to come along to stuff but I am curious what does and doesn't work in terms of drawing a crowd? Is postering still useful? Paying for ads on FB? Making promotional videos??
There wasn't a single person at the show last night I didn't know. It was great that so many friends came along but I don't think I am that interested in the stress and potential financial sink of arranging shows and then few turning up. I recently did a micro show in my flat which was great because the worry was too many would turn up but that's not something I can do on a regular basis.
I did a show last night that went pretty well but only fewer than 2 dozen people turned up. I wasn't expecting an enormous crowd but I thought I had got word out. I realise with everyone getting older, family commitments, it is necessarily gonna be harder to get people to come along to stuff but I am curious what does and doesn't work in terms of drawing a crowd? Is postering still useful? Paying for ads on FB? Making promotional videos??
There wasn't a single person at the show last night I didn't know. It was great that so many friends came along but I don't think I am that interested in the stress and potential financial sink of arranging shows and then few turning up. I recently did a micro show in my flat which was great because the worry was too many would turn up but that's not something I can do on a regular basis.