Have you guys been gettin shit loads of booking request from touring bands on MySpace or what? I mean, we always try and help out the bands we like and help them get show but jeeeez... we've been getting A TON of bands out of state bands asking for help.

Does it say booking agent somewhere on our page?

Maybe it's because Launchpad is closed and Burt's is turning into a dance club???

We get several a day most days. They just look at the top artists rankings in a city/genre and send out a form email asking for help booking shows. The emails always say the same thing "We'll hook you up if you're ever in __________" Yeah, right.

I only get one of these about every month...I guess there IS something good about starting at the bottom.

quote:

We'll hook you up if you're ever in __________" Yeah, right.

yeah, seriously!


We asked bands for help on our tour but they were mostly bands we had played with before.

It's huge. Are people really booking whole tours this way? Seems like you'd end up opening for a lot of locals in shit holes if your summer is all booked through myspace. I wouldn't mind helping, but besides the sheer number, most of them are bands who need a show and a place to stay with a week notice or some equally impossible bullshit. I just direct them here. It's a shame the tour season hits just when we are most hobbled- 50 bands fighting over the same slot...

i no longer check our myspace page, so i don't know how many we get. however, i can tell you that we have made some of our best friends through helping out touring bands. we helped out this one band shinobu from san jose once, and since then we have played with them something like 12 times, and gone on tour with them once, and since we helped them out that one time they always help us when we go to the bay area, we always help them when they come to town. we helped out a band from chicago once, the singer moved to LA and now works at the knitting factory, so anytime we go to LA we have a show at a good venue. those aren't the only times show trades have worked out for us via myspace either. so, myspace messages can definitely be a dead end, but they CAN be helpful. just gotta weed out who you think is legit.

What is this "my space" that you speak of?