Advice for bands starting out - Part 2
So yesterday we had Part 1 of Advice for bands starting out where we covered things like social networking, recording a demo, putting together a press kit and even finalising the bands name. In this article we’ll continue on with some more basic advice that should hopefully get you on your way to rock stardom!
Let’s dive right in.
Back to work tomorrow
Well today was officially my last day of holidays. I’ve pretty well had 3 weeks off now for the wedding and honeymoon, and I must admit I really really don’t want to go back. If only there was some way for me to get / win a few million dollars overnight…..hrmmm
This weekend has been pretty flat out, apart from having a load of cleaning and washing to get done, I’ve managed to set up, clean up, code, etc. a whole bunch of websites that I’ve been meaning to get sorted out for a few months now. I also upgraded about 16 WordPress installations, plugins included, to the latest versions. Read more
I’m With The Band - header
A week or so ago I mentioned that I was working on the logo / header for the new I’m With The Band website, well it’s finally completed (till I decide to tweak it again) and the only thing left to do now is to actually sort out the colour scheme.
The other thing I managed to finalise is the ability to subscribe to Reverb Street Press via email. Basically we setup a category on the IWTB website where each month we publish a downloadable PDF of that month’s Reverb and just by clicking on the cover you can download it. To make things even easier we published that particular category as an RSS feed and through the help of Feedburner we’ve now added a form on the front page of the IWTB website where all you need to do is enter your email address and voila, you get an email each month as soon as the new Reverb is published with a prompt to download it. It was tempting to setup an ‘auto-send’ email subscription however seeing as Reverb is around about 15mb it would break most people’s mail servers.
For now here’s what I came up with, along with the help of one of Reverb’s designer’s mates, for the header of the website.
I’m also finishing up a disco version, a dance club version, and more of a rock music version so that we can change them around every couple of months or so.
Time to finish up the rest of the colour scheme, I think I might also make the text larger and also customise each category header as well, oh and the Reverb signup form needs to look a bit different to the standard IWTB one so that people understand what they’re doing. Oh and I’ve also gotta lock in the advertising spaces so we can sell them off each month.
So yeh, almost complete!
And for those music fans out there, this month there’s interviews from Pete Townshend (The Who), Ian Brown (The Stone Roses), Coheed and Cambria, and not to mention Gnarls Barkley. Pretty damn tasty considering we’re a locally owned and produced press, and we’re not even based in Sydney!
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