Black & White is a new Music Promotion/Management/Live Music Venue company which formed beginning of 2007.
WE CURRENTLY AND FOR MANY MONTHS HAVE A HUGE MYSPACE BACK LOG OF UNANSWERED MESSAGES! SOME OF THESE WILL NEVER BE ANSWERED DUE TO A TIME ISSUE - PARTICULARLY THE ONES WHICH HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO READ THE INFORMATION BELOW IN FULL:
BANDS IF YOU WANT A GIG: Please email us a bit about your band and a myspace/website link to your songs to [email protected] but if you want, you can also just send us a friend request. We listen to every friend request and catalogue any good bands details in a database, upon which we will contact you if we get to see you live and like the show. We are not so good at dealing with myspace messages. We definately prefer people emailing us on the email addresses at the bottom of this text.NOTE- We only work with bands we have seen live. Therefore when sending us a message please don't say "can you give us a gig". What we want to know is when your live dates are so we might be able to come and watch you if we like what we hear. Then any working relationship will be put forward from there.
PLAYING OUR NIGHTS
We will need to come and watch your band live before we book you for our own shows. Bands are looked after at our gigs. We work hard at promoting the shows, and they get extensive local media coverage. However, this does not mean a band should make no effort whatsoever! With our work, and your work combined, it contributes to a high quality night.
We will provide free beer / soft drinks / food to the playing artists. We develop your fan mailing list at the gigs for you. Depending on how much effort bands make with helping boost the crowd numbers, bands also get paid on a tiered system. Out of town bands get money towards their petrol costs also. Any band that makes a seriously good impression on us at our own live nights we may be interested in working with you longer term. We have recently booked bands into universities and nationally known venues in Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Guiford, Oxford, Reading, London, Kent and also have developed a media presence in terms of street team work, regional newspapers / magazines /radio in these cities to help the band promote their gigs, and develop their fanbase in a town. This also maximises their chances of bigger and better bookings with other promoters.
PROMOTIONAL SERVICES
Contact us to discuss what you are after. The kind of things we do for bands are listed below:
1. Book them gigs with other promoters across the country
2. Design posters / flyers for your gigs and distribute them in the town of your gig through street teams and putting posters in record shops etc
3. We can advertise your gigs in multiple gig listing sources such as websites/ newspaper/ magazine/ radio etc
4. We write press releases for publication in newspaper / internet media - this could be a gig preview for one of your nights, or an EP release etc
5. We could organise a show for you to promote your single launch etc
Please contact us to discuss what you are after. If it is of interest to us we will get back to you.
DEMO FEEDBACK
We do get A LOT of bands in contact with us. We will contact you if we want to come and watch you live. We strongly prefer bands contacting us to our email address rather than myspace, for the simple reason that it is much easier to manage our mails in microsoft outlook rather than myspace! You can also post demos to us, but we can not return them. We are unlikely to be able to repsond to every mail we get, but if you do want feedback, and haven't heard from us, do message us again to remind us.
EMAIL
BAND DEMOS: [email protected]
GENERAL ENQUIRIES: [email protected]
POST
Black and White Music Promotions
PO BOX 2867
Reading
RG1 9HJ
PHONE
Shane 07828 934717
Neil 07828 488136
