Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Is Getting Band Gigs a Numbers Game?


Well, I've always thought so.

Here's a quote from someone who has their numbers well understood:

"From 1995 to 2000, I played about 140 shows a year," she said. "It was hard work. I had to make about 20 phone calls to get each gig, and I needed 20 gigs a month to make a living."


The full post is here


And if you scroll down this Harmony Central post to the comment from "Sickman", you can see his simple formula for getting as much work as you want outside your home town.

Neither of these two tell you how to do it of course, but you have to admire the the clarity of thinking. It's all about knowing your what your gigging goals are isn't it?




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