Sun, 19 May 2013 08:18:17 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297967#Comment_297967 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297967#Comment_297967 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:41:28 -0700 warrenellis "...playing to an empty room on a Saturday in a town that knows who I am is just really sad. So I took my $12.50 USD and bought myself a few shots of whiskey. Luckily the price of whiskey in Portland is pretty low and I managed to get terrifically, yet lucidly, inebriated. In that state I had an epiphany, one that redefines the concept of touring...." ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297968#Comment_297968 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297968#Comment_297968 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:53:24 -0700 sellmeyoursoul http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297973#Comment_297973 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297973#Comment_297973 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:38:28 -0700 Kim Boekbinder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297986#Comment_297986 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297986#Comment_297986 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:17:11 -0700 offtandiscord
hell, this idea may even work for promoters too. There's enough risks putting on shows as it is, a guaranteed audience would be a godsend.

I'm going to have to spread this one around a bit! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297999#Comment_297999 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=297999#Comment_297999 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:09:23 -0700 icelandbob
I too may put this idea to some local musician friends of mine about its feasibility... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298023#Comment_298023 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298023#Comment_298023 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:00:55 -0700 scs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298087#Comment_298087 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298087#Comment_298087 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:27:34 -0700 mojokingbee http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298153#Comment_298153 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298153#Comment_298153 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:08:49 -0700 oddbill a service called eventful for a couple of years.

Eventful doesn't actually pre-sell, though, so it is not exactly the same. It's more a way of gauging interest in different localities. It's core is a similar idea.

This also is reflected in Kevin Smith's recent Red State Tour, in which he took his new film, Red State, himself to a series of cities to play directly to his fans, and added cities as fans requested them. The film itself will get a regular release in October, but his intention was to make back as much of the initial investors money on the film in this pre-release tour, without spending any money on advertising. Essentially doing the same thing Kim is doing, playing directly to his fans. His thinking is, he has his fan base. Those people come out for everything he does. Why not just do things directly for them? Why spend a lot of money in a futile effort to woo people who don't really like his stuff to come see it (the traditional movie marketing strategy). Why not make the film on a budget matched to the level of expected interest, and then direct it at the interested?

So, between Kim's kickstarter effort, Coulton's Eventful and Kevin Smith's Red State Tour - there are 3 riffs on the same idea - sell directly to your fans. Let your fans grow your career.

This is probably the beginning of the new normal. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298717#Comment_298717 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298717#Comment_298717 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:38:42 -0700 LBA http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298731#Comment_298731 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=298731#Comment_298731 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:28:10 -0700 Ben Johnson
Anyway, you can read PFT's original blog post from 2009 about pre-booking shows this way, and if you google pretty much any interview with him since then, he'll end up talking about it at some point. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=299328#Comment_299328 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9945&Focus=299328#Comment_299328 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:41:41 -0700 Bankara Also, shameless plug for my tumblr where you can see some of the work I am considering printing and tell if I am nuts for thinking this stuff a sale-able. ]]>