HW: Gig advertising

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If anybody from the band is reading this, PLEASE PLEASE get some better
advertising for the short tour gigs than the non-existent product for the
York gig in '97, there were little more than 49 people there. The local
promotion was appalling and a lot of the folks who I knew there had found
out by word of mouth.
Talking of Northern gigs, did anybody out there go to the 'Dracfest' gig at
Whitby, also in '97. The highlights of this event are numerous, but for me
the couple of things I still remember are the entrance of Arthur Brown in a
coffin escorted by candle bearers (and a fireman!), and Kris making the
stage security gorillas duck when she blew her flame immediately over their
heads!

Space Out!

Ike


>From: J D <Jeremy at DACOMBE.FSNET.CO.UK>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>Subject: HW: Gig advertising
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:26:17 -0000
>
>Hi,
>Someone was surprised to be purchasing ticket no. 49 for the Aldershot gig
>in 3 weeks time.
>Agreed that this is concerning and have the following thoughts ....
>Just what publicity has there been for these gigs?
>Admittedly I go nowhere near the music rags to find out if the gigs have
>been mentioned in them, but it wouldn't surprise to find out that they
>haven't.
>Brian Tawn usually puts out a news letter mentioning impending gigs, but
>there's been nothing from him as yet.
>Basically if I was not a list member I also would have been totally
>oblivious to any Hawks gigs coming up.
>I sincerely hope that HW don't think that mentioning gigs to BOC-L or
>putting them on Mission Control is anywhere near sufficient in publicising
>gigs.
>We are, after all, just a tiny minority of those who would attend HW gigs
>and half of us live abroad anyway.
>It's great that HW are participating in using the new technology & media
>available but it only reaches a small proportion of interested parties.
>The x-thousand people who attended Brixton (and to a lesser extend Astoria)
>are not all automatic attendees of these other minor gigs (even if they are
>aware of them) as these were one-off (OK, two-off) gigs with a dip into the
>past.
>Hope I'm wrong on all accounts!
>I'll be at Nottingham, anyway, and no, I've not bought my ticket yet.
>Jez
>
>

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