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[quote]I've got a band...

Massive on Myspace and other social networking places. Numerous websites about the band including fan-made sites.

Some decent reviews but admiteddly we should aim at getting more of them - its quite difficult to get mag reviews if youre unsigned..any tips?

Toured the UK, Europe and Canada totally DIY. Building fanbases abroad. Currently have no distro/no label we just burn and sell our own cds and merch.

When big touring acts come to our local area in our genre, we're always asked to support them. Often asked to support the smaller touring acts too because we can pull the crowd.

So how do we advance from here? I don't feel we're yet strong enough to encourage our fans to buy and pre-order one track to get us in the charts just yet. Plus it would be difficult to mobilse the whole of our fanbase at once without TV support or major press.

We struggle to get press, we have a video but have struggled to find addresses/supervisors to get it on TV, tried musicians channel though and had some play there.
Had play on local radio stations and a track played a couple of times on BBC Radio1 but nothing major.

Labels won't entertain us as we're not a 'popular' genre.

We're trying to do as much as we can DIY but with so little info out there, it's hard to know what way to go? Where do the managers learn? How should a band plan it's way forward?

Any help greatly appreciated.[/quote]

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Topic History of: So..Tips for the average unsigned act today
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Author	Message
Sam	Many thanks guys
Big End	and make sure the song is registered with PRS/MCPS or you won't be able to collect mechanical royalties.
Mart	Yes it is Sam, but try and get onto as many sites as possible, and make sure your CRSC coding is done or your sales won`t get logged. Some download companies do this for you some do not. m
Sam	Hi Just a quick question, we're an unsigned band that had a song featured on a compilation CD which is now available to buy at HMV, Virgin Digital, Wallmart and a few other online sites. As the song is available to buy and download individually, is it legible for the charts, or a there all sort of rules and regs governing this? Thanks Sam
Mart	Hmmm..whatever did happen to the Musicians Union? They seemed to fail to attract new blood and support at some point. I was at a meeting ten years back in which it was concluded that the only way forward for the union was to push the public liabilty insurance in the membership. All the gigs I do today are insured by my own union card, the "union of musicians" is actually prevalent in the non members sadly. An MU member rang a friend of mine during an MU conference ages ago and asked if he could sort a band out for a knees up in the evening at short notice and how much it would be. My friend replied that it was obviously priced at Union rates. "As much as that?" He was told. I kid you not.