Dear <insert band name here>
The fact you emailed me me once and offered me a gig does not mean that I am a fan of your band. Even if I did write a half-hearted response to your request where I was midly pleasant in order to not be rude, and did wished you luck with getting gigs elsewhere, it did not make me a fan of your band.
So what the fuck am I doing on your mailing list? I am sick of being excited to have an email and then disappointed to find it's some band I can barely even remember telling me they're playing in a cupboard in a pub in Cockfosters on Tuesday week.
Please remove me forthwith and refrain from adding me to your mailing lists in the future.
Thank you.
Yes yes yes
I get this too. Then i have PR people asking me to put up giglistings when my website doesn't have a section for that and who the fuck are the band anyway?
It's a slimey game this music industry.
I was music editor
on my student newspaper, and was mildly astonished at the amount of awful spam (both electronic and physical) I recieved from awful bands every single day.
Be strong.
We're here for you.
have the balls to send that message back to them
aaaaaand problem solved.
MTFU
I shall message them soon.
I might be a bit politer.
But I was hoping some people in bands would see this thread and then refrain in the future...
I am sick of being excited to have an email
I gave up being excited about getting emails a long long time ago!
One thing I hate even more than email and spammer emails is emails telling me that I have a new message in my <insert name here> account.
I think I shall have to declare myself email bankrupt again very soon.
emailing the band that
would have been far more effective.
and what band was it
?
Or
getting messages from bands saying 'we'd love to play your night and we know we'd fit in!'
Yeah, sure. It's a shoegaze/post-punk/blahblahblah night. And you sound like fucking Oasis.
Yeah.
I got this from a band who sounded a bit like Jamiraquai this week. They sounded quite nice people too. I'll feel bad when I get round to emailing them and letting them know I can't put 'em on.
My friends run a night...
where i live and they get shed loads of crap bands trying to play there. The fact is there are more bad bands than good ones in the unsigned pool.
The
nicest ones are sometimes the very worst!
That's true
I can only dream about the volume of dirge DIS get through their letterbox. Mines bad enough.
its a shame
that none of you look at it from the view of the band. There are a million and one unsigned bands all battling for your attention. I bet that every single band you currently love was in the situation where they had to send a million e-mails to everyone, pissing everyone off just for the odd gig here and there.
Or maybe you prefer manufactured pop crap.
I do though
I have my own band and we got one review from about 10 cds we sent out. it's disappointing but it's expected. If he had some PR company to push our music on ppl we might have got more feedback but at the end of the day non of us make music to get reviews, we make music because we enjoy playing.
...
*we
If you enjoy playing so much
then why bother sending out CD's? Just admit you want shit-loads of success and attention like any other band.
Man were you holding a gun to the monitor screen then?
It would be nice wouldn;t it to be able to do it full time.
Thrilling a journalist is not what i'm spending 100's of pounds in recording equipment for.
If i was single, it would be to get the girls, so there!
Pissing off
100 promoters in the vain hope that, despite all evidence to the contrary, they'll suddenly decide to put on a band that doesn't fit in with their usual bills isn't really doing the band any favours. It's being lazy.
Which is why most promoters will say 'check out the sort of bands we usually put on'. Getting attention isn't a good thing if it's for being a bunch of twats.
99% of Myspace Adds
are from bands like this, sadly!
I'm in a band myself. We desperately need more attention.
But it's just fucking rude to add people to your mailing list who've expressed no interest in being there.
Obviously we send out emails to promoters asking them to put us on and we occasionally chase up the ones that seem really interested. And sometimes if I know someone likes us and think they'll want to know I will add 'em to our mailing list.
But sending someone a load of unsolicited shite despite them never having shown an interest in your band is utterly rude, only serves to piss people off and achieves absolutely nothing.
I wish...
I received some emails from time to time...
False excitation is better than no excitation at all...
i just
mark them as 'spam' and have done with it
^
You see Paul? thats all ya gotta do :)
I refuse to do anything simple
without first throwing an over-the-top hissy fit in the public domain.
Too right!
:D
i did actually
throw a drunken hissyfit at the people who put me on the milburn mailing list and i think i got a reply back containing an emoticon, which was even worse.
do you have a mailing list for your band / night you put on?
are you 100% sure everyone on your list REALLY wants to get every email you send? it's the nature of internet promotion that you'll get unwanted junk...just hit delete and all is ok
My mailing list for my band and mailing list is pretty limited
'cos I won't add people unless the ask to be added or I know them and know they'll be interested.
So I know 100% sure most will. I'm not talking about people putting a few people on by mistake. I'm talking about bands who add people they've never met and who have never shown an interest in their bands to their mailing lists. It's unprofessional (if it's a PR/management company), disrespectful (if it's anyone else) and shows a complete lack of morals or etiquette.