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This is a shot in the dark but I've had this idea stirring in my head for a little bit, hopefully a thread like this doesn't already exist. I'm sure the majority of ILFers have no idea who I am (I would like that to change) but the few I have interacted with I can't say enough kind words about.

Getting to the point, being in a band is quite the struggle. Especially when you're not on your own turf and trying to find a couple of shows when you're out on the road. For me personally I've only traveled up and down the east coast, furthest south being Baltimore and furthest north being New Hampshire. I would like this to change and ideally for any band attempting to make it full time, a booking agent is needed.

But in the mean time I thought maybe any persons/bands who are looking to extend their audience or travel, can maybe come here to get a little extra help with finding a show. Hence the title, creating a network. Personally there are only so many strings I can pull but say if someone came on here in need of a show in New Jersey or New York, I could try my best to see what I could do.

With that said, I could use all the help I can get. The band I'm in currently is called Those Mockingbirds and as you can see, I'm from New Jersey.

So anyone interested in trying to create a bigger force if you will, tell us your band name and where you hail from. We could start a list and go from there. I don't know if this is just a haphazard way of doing things and if anyone has any ideas for improvement, then by all means.

So hopefully this amounts to something, if not here's a hug

My band (well, solo project at the moment) is currently called Eagle Eyed Tiger.

It's usually based out of NY but it's based out of Boston right now.

Whoa whoa whoa. You're in Boston? When are you playing next?

If anybody is in a jazz band I could probably help them out with shows in Boston. I haven't been booking shows for a while, but my contacts should still be good.

My band is Indian Space Station, and we are from the Little Rock area.
I can also help with shows in the location. I have connections with a couple different venues, depending on what type of audience you want. However the music scene here is tiny.

jfrey wrote:Whoa whoa whoa. You're in Boston? When are you playing next?

If anybody is in a jazz band I could probably help them out with shows in Boston. I haven't been booking shows for a while, but my contacts should still be good.

Haha I still have yet to actually perform a show for anyone with this project. It's a mix right now of guitar stuff and lots of electronica, but since I'm at school I don't really have access to all of my goodies. No guitar, no pedals, no amps, no drums. Almost got an acoustic guitar the other day, but that's just not my style. Ended up getting a Maschine, and in a few months I'll probably get some nice speakers to play my music over... obviously I'm in the early development stages of my Maschine-fu but hopefully I can learn enough to use it as a performance tool this year. My style ranges from this to this.

I wish I was in a jazz band though... I loved jazz band in high school (I was the drummer) but we never played anything too fun or out there.

I still have the jazz bone in me (you'll probably have to play this extremely loud because this version wasn't really mixed haha):

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/eagle-eyed-tiger/talk-show-host[/soundcloud]

I'm in a crazy, loud, noisy band in Toronto.
My friend described it as "pure rock and roll."
Looking for other crazy bands to play with in Toronto.

Psyre wrote:My band is Indian Space Station, and we are from the Little Rock area.
I can also help with shows in the location. I have connections with a couple different venues, depending on what type of audience you want. However the music scene here is tiny.

thats a great band name

Muse FTW wrote:

jfrey wrote:Whoa whoa whoa. You're in Boston? When are you playing next?

If anybody is in a jazz band I could probably help them out with shows in Boston. I haven't been booking shows for a while, but my contacts should still be good.

Haha I still have yet to actually perform a show for anyone with this project. It's a mix right now of guitar stuff and lots of electronica, but since I'm at school I don't really have access to all of my goodies. No guitar, no pedals, no amps, no drums. Almost got an acoustic guitar the other day, but that's just not my style. Ended up getting a Maschine, and in a few months I'll probably get some nice speakers to play my music over... obviously I'm in the early development stages of my Maschine-fu but hopefully I can learn enough to use it as a performance tool this year. My style ranges from this to this.

I wish I was in a jazz band though... I loved jazz band in high school (I was the drummer) but we never played anything too fun or out there.

I still have the jazz bone in me (you'll probably have to play this extremely loud because this version wasn't really mixed haha):

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/eagle-eyed-tiger/talk-show-host[/soundcloud]

this is dope as hell. what made you go from ny to boston?

Casavettes wrote:
this is dope as hell. what made you go from ny to boston?

Thank you very much for listening! I'm in Boston because of school.

Casavettes wrote:

Psyre wrote:My band is Indian Space Station, and we are from the Little Rock area.
I can also help with shows in the location. I have connections with a couple different venues, depending on what type of audience you want. However the music scene here is tiny.

thats a great band name

Thanks man! Yea one of teh first venue owners we talked to, back when we went by "The Grey Estate" told us we sounded "Indie and Spacey" so we went with it haha. Here is one of our t-shirt designs. A merge of Grand Moff Tarkin and a chieftan.

Good idea, Cass!
I have a doom/drone project called Rabbit just outside Boston in the central Mass area. We are ALWAYS looking for doom bands to put together bills with...