Hoping you guys have some ideas ?
We were chatting at band practice last night, talking about song choices etc. and once again the question arose of what our target "market" is if we want to do more performances. We play covers, so obviously we'd like to build a repertoire consistent with the types of gigs we're doing.
Music is mostly just classic / soft rock / pop.
Initially we were thinking pub-type venues, but since we're quite a big band (we were 6 piece, now 5 piece) we'd occupy too much physical room to do most restaurants and pubs I'd think.
Obviously there are corporate functions, weddings and the like, but what other options are there for our sort of band? The older guys in the band are a bit out of touch with the local music scene, but they've suggested we consider looking at playing some venues that specialise in live music, like Tanz Cafe. I know those sorts of places have evenings when unknown bands can get a show at doing a few numbers, but I'm not sure who we should be talking to in order to kick that sort of thing off.
I'm personally keen to come along to some of the get-together's I've seen arranged on these forums, but most of those seem more guitar specific, 'open-mic' type events. Not really band stuff?
Does anyone have any experience to share here? We're not looking to turn pro or anything, just to do a couple of performances on a semi-regular basis to give some outlet to all the practice we do.
We were chatting at band practice last night, talking about song choices etc. and once again the question arose of what our target "market" is if we want to do more performances. We play covers, so obviously we'd like to build a repertoire consistent with the types of gigs we're doing.
Music is mostly just classic / soft rock / pop.
Initially we were thinking pub-type venues, but since we're quite a big band (we were 6 piece, now 5 piece) we'd occupy too much physical room to do most restaurants and pubs I'd think.
Obviously there are corporate functions, weddings and the like, but what other options are there for our sort of band? The older guys in the band are a bit out of touch with the local music scene, but they've suggested we consider looking at playing some venues that specialise in live music, like Tanz Cafe. I know those sorts of places have evenings when unknown bands can get a show at doing a few numbers, but I'm not sure who we should be talking to in order to kick that sort of thing off.
I'm personally keen to come along to some of the get-together's I've seen arranged on these forums, but most of those seem more guitar specific, 'open-mic' type events. Not really band stuff?
Does anyone have any experience to share here? We're not looking to turn pro or anything, just to do a couple of performances on a semi-regular basis to give some outlet to all the practice we do.
