Too Much To Handle
0 Comments Published by Kevin Broken Scar on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 at 11:58 PM.
There’s too much music out there (well, at least in Melbourne). Pick up a copy of Beat or Inpress Magazines and there will be hundreds of gigs you can go to in whatever genre you like everyday of the week.
Let’s start with Beat and Inpress. What are they? They are free magazines with truckloads of music news, band interviews, competitions, giveaways, pictures, reviews, classifieds, relevant advertisements and best of all, a comprehensive gig guide of the week. They have heaps of promo for gigs in the first few pages and the last few pages. It’s sort of like a compilation of various band/gig flyers and also promo from the venues themselves, displaying their websites clearly and providing a gig guide of their own. Intensive indeed. They come out fresh from the printers every Wednesday morning without fail and will be at the doorsteps of CD retailers and music related stores. In fact, they are out by Tuesday night. I really wonder how they do it.
The gig guide is for the whole week from Wednesday to Wednesday, providing venue and ticketing information. There’s also a whole list of bands who are touring, which makes it easier to track and these gigs are advertised and announced way in advance. At present, there are gigs announced for February already. They are always two months ahead. That’s what I call planning.
So take your pick, Beat or In Press. I never finish reading any of them before the week is over. I often even lose track of the gigs just because there are just that many gigs. I literally have to make a gig calendar and plan out my weeks in advance to fit these gigs. Insane isn’t it?
So I normally browse through two of the magazines and I’ve decided that there’s no way I can read them from cover to cover. So I’ve made mental notes to look out for the important bits. The important news, the giveaways, the gig guide and the gig flyers/ads.
So today was one of those days that I sat down to look through them and I just had to make a decision to be less ambitious and only attempt to read one. There’s just so much info in there you’d go, “who needs to buy magazines when these free ones are awesome?” I’m going crazy planning out the gigs I want to go to. I wish I can go to all.
On another note, who here can say that they had class in a gig venue, had pub lunch and had beer for class? Well, I can. My class had a ‘live sound’ component and our guest lecturer, Lance Krive (Front Of House engineer for Madonna, Michael Jackson, Julio Iglesias among many others) took us out to the East Brunswick Club for a hands-on session. We had a three-piece band come in to play for us as well as we did soundcheck and tune-up. Lance is awesome! He knows his craft and he works amazingly fast. Let’s just say that the pro really knows what he’s doing and the sound was just awesome. However, good sound also comes from a few sources, mainly a good band, good band gear and good PA System.
For those of you interested in audio stuff, we worked on a Midas Verona desk, Nexo monitors and FOH speakers with some Shure Beta 57’s and Beta 58’s. There was a set of Sennheiser mics for the drums and for the guitar amps.
Let’s start with Beat and Inpress. What are they? They are free magazines with truckloads of music news, band interviews, competitions, giveaways, pictures, reviews, classifieds, relevant advertisements and best of all, a comprehensive gig guide of the week. They have heaps of promo for gigs in the first few pages and the last few pages. It’s sort of like a compilation of various band/gig flyers and also promo from the venues themselves, displaying their websites clearly and providing a gig guide of their own. Intensive indeed. They come out fresh from the printers every Wednesday morning without fail and will be at the doorsteps of CD retailers and music related stores. In fact, they are out by Tuesday night. I really wonder how they do it.
The gig guide is for the whole week from Wednesday to Wednesday, providing venue and ticketing information. There’s also a whole list of bands who are touring, which makes it easier to track and these gigs are advertised and announced way in advance. At present, there are gigs announced for February already. They are always two months ahead. That’s what I call planning.
So take your pick, Beat or In Press. I never finish reading any of them before the week is over. I often even lose track of the gigs just because there are just that many gigs. I literally have to make a gig calendar and plan out my weeks in advance to fit these gigs. Insane isn’t it?
So I normally browse through two of the magazines and I’ve decided that there’s no way I can read them from cover to cover. So I’ve made mental notes to look out for the important bits. The important news, the giveaways, the gig guide and the gig flyers/ads.
So today was one of those days that I sat down to look through them and I just had to make a decision to be less ambitious and only attempt to read one. There’s just so much info in there you’d go, “who needs to buy magazines when these free ones are awesome?” I’m going crazy planning out the gigs I want to go to. I wish I can go to all.
On another note, who here can say that they had class in a gig venue, had pub lunch and had beer for class? Well, I can. My class had a ‘live sound’ component and our guest lecturer, Lance Krive (Front Of House engineer for Madonna, Michael Jackson, Julio Iglesias among many others) took us out to the East Brunswick Club for a hands-on session. We had a three-piece band come in to play for us as well as we did soundcheck and tune-up. Lance is awesome! He knows his craft and he works amazingly fast. Let’s just say that the pro really knows what he’s doing and the sound was just awesome. However, good sound also comes from a few sources, mainly a good band, good band gear and good PA System.
For those of you interested in audio stuff, we worked on a Midas Verona desk, Nexo monitors and FOH speakers with some Shure Beta 57’s and Beta 58’s. There was a set of Sennheiser mics for the drums and for the guitar amps.
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