January 10, 2008
2008 Music goals
The industry literature relating not only to music, but to all successful enterprises, recommends the establishment of clear, attainable goals. As such, I have set these goals for The Genre Benders for 2008:
1) Want to play at least 12 paid club gigs in Brisbane. Have two tentatively booked for Feb and March, which is a good start. Can play The Alley each month if necessary but would like to expand beyond there. Contacted a second booking dude today (Ward 69 - Ant), though he seems more into heavier stuff than GBs.
2) Want to play at least one support for a tour. Started this process today by identifying the tour promoters putting shows in smaller venues in Brisbane. Have this written up in Outlook with weekly reminders.
3) Want to play at least one festival. Started this process today by identifying local prospective festivals in and around Brisbane. Have this written up in Outlook with weekly reminders.
4) Want to bring in a percussionist. Contacted 6 drummer/percussionists from Brisbanemusos.com today. Will work with recorded drums until the right candidate pops up.
5) Two more albums to be recorded. First one acoustic in January and the second at Phil's mid-year. This completes foreseeable recording needs and repertoire for about 90-minute shows.
6) Want to expand the live show from acoustic guitar to include some of the electric numbers: Dirty, It's about you and so on. Get funkier/rockier and so on ...
7) Want to play at least one gig out of Brisbane; Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, etc. This is beyond reach at the moment but can see it in the second half of the year - especially in conjunction with goals 2 and 3.
8) Want to develop network of songwiters/performers beyond Brisbane ... Kevin is a good place to start this. Songsalive will help if it gets off the ground.
Posted by Hughie at January 10, 2008 9:12 PM