Release Party

[gullyjewelz]

How do you "turn out" a decent crowd? As a relatively new artist - I have yet to build a well-established fan base. However, I have an opoortunity to do a release party at a venue - the venue will not charge me anything - so I want to take the opportunity!!!

How can I make sure I get a decent turn out? No point in having just "a few friends" show up?

[Cyanide-Depende]

What were doing, Is we are scheduling the release party for the end of June. We are putting up flyers/ads everywhere right now and will continue to do so (make sure the flyers are VERY proffessional, easy to read, adn eye catching, make it stand out but easy to read) Then every, Thursday Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for the first 3 weeks in June we are going to every musically related club we can (different one each night) and handing out flyers, "promo CD's" which have 2 tracks from the full length CD on them to people and tell them about it. It always helps to have attractive women do this part, people respond to attractive women much better than some guy handing you shit. even women like getting stuff from attractive women more than som guy with stuff to give away.

This is what were doing for this release and what we did for other releases.

It also helps to have a band with a big draw play with you at the release party. I remember when I was in Now Fragile Being our CD Release party had Anthrax as a headliner. Best show ever, and we sold alot of merch and gained some new fans. But a good local band that is well established and has a good draw will help out just as much, sometimes more (lower ticket prices) and you will still make your money even if you have to pay them part of the door (you make door and merch sales )

Hope this helps
C$