Vocal Gems

[Jordan Harris]

I think that one of the differences between today's scene and the scene of
the last decade was that now, more than ever, finding out about shows
requires a more active participation. 

When compiling the concert listing for my zine, I check bands' myspace pages
(though often times the bulletin feature provides notification as well, if
one is on a band's friends list), venue websites, check the City Paper,
check the previously mentioned former-Roboto bulletin board, and keep my eye
out for flyers when I'm out. It doesn't really take that long, it's just
that there's no one-stop source for the information, and checking requires a
bit of diligence.

Word of mouth also helps, but it's not necessarily the first
line-of-promotion these days.


-----Original Message-----
From: pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org
[mailto:pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org] On Behalf Of Manny
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Brian J. Parker
Cc: PghGoth listserv
Subject: Re: Vocal Gems

only a handful of people ever read this list, look at livejournal, or 
look at myspace's pghgoths group.
and pghgoth.com itself has been down and frozen for quite a while.

but i don't necessarily think shows are any smaller. looks like VNV 
Nation and Rasputina did well. Haujobb, Cruxshadows, Assemblage 23 and 
Brian show with that girl (forget her name) all seemed to do just fine.
Chemlab tanked, but that was expected because of its proximity to VNV. 
Freezepop I'm sure will do fine
(btw, that's Feb 16 at Pegasus). Even more fringe electronic stuff like 
the recent Drumcorps show did alright.

Somehow, people are still finding out about all of these things without 
a central information distributor (like pghgoth.com and this list used 
to be). Yet things still seem to be happening with regular enough 
frequency.

So I wouldn't worry about it too much.