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i paid about £40 for a book detailing the addresses of contacts for me to send my demos to, i was then told by a producer in "the business" to join hitquarters.com which costs about $10 and would be more useful than any book, i have joined and so far i am impressed. are any of you lot also members, and has it helped???
 
Not impressed with hitquarters.com at all.

I did a search for contact info for rock stations in the USA and I got 22 returns for contacts. Out of tens of thousands of stations in the US only 22 had contact info? And only one accepted unsolicited material!!! You can do way better by searching the web yourself. There's a reason it's only 15 bucks.

Do your own research. When it comes to paying for stuff like contact lists it's usually stuff you can find on your own. Almost all the Hitquarters contacts were publicly available on the web anyway.
 
cheers for the info, in retrospect i guess i should have posted a question before i joined, atleast it was only cheap. to be honest though there are some really interesting articles on there, so maybe not a total waste.
 
Never pay for any service which claims to advance your musical career. Making money off the wannabes is the oldest trick in the book. (Oh, and speaking of books, don't buy any about "how to make it" either.)
 
I found my contact on the candle my wife had put in the bathroom. Took me an hour.

Anytime they ask for money to promote, you're likely being screwed.
 
HogansHiro said:
Not impressed with hitquarters.com at all.

I did a search for contact info for rock stations in the USA and I got 22 returns for contacts. Out of tens of thousands of stations in the US only 22 had contact info? And only one accepted unsolicited material!!! You can do way better by searching the web yourself. There's a reason it's only 15 bucks.

Do your own research. When it comes to paying for stuff like contact lists it's usually stuff you can find on your own. Almost all the Hitquarters contacts were publicly available on the web anyway.
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Shouldn't be sending "unsolicited material" anyway - Do you keep your junk mail?

- Tanlith -
 
Here's more than 40 places to send your demo...

http://www.indiepages.com/linkszines.html

Fee: $0, no charge.

If you go to the contact page on most of these sites you'll find at least a postal address, maybe even a name. You can email them before hand to ask if it's OK to send them your demo, in return you might get the name of an individual. You can mark your envelope for their personal attention.

OK, these are for the genre indie-rock, but there are hundrends of such pages on the net for all genres, the difficult bit is keeping track of where you sent the demos so you don't duplicate your effort.

Like they said, all the information you need is out there for free. What you WILL need, is time to gather it all.
 
glynb said:
Here's more than 40 places to send your demo...

http://www.indiepages.com/linkszines.html

Fee: $0, no charge.

If you go to the contact page on most of these sites you'll find at least a postal address, maybe even a name. You can email them before hand to ask if it's OK to send them your demo, in return you might get the name of an individual. You can mark your envelope for their personal attention.

OK, these are for the genre indie-rock, but there are hundrends of such pages on the net for all genres, the difficult bit is keeping track of where you sent the demos so you don't duplicate your effort.

Like they said, all the information you need is out there for free. What you WILL need, is time to gather it all.
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Cools... And I fully agree that you should ALWAYS try to make contact FIRST and formost. That way you can put "Requested Material" on the envelope. It's sure to get to the proper desk then. The figure the guy is waiting for it.

- Tanlith -
 
apl said:
I found my contact on the candle my wife had put in the bathroom. Took me an hour.
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.... and it took me at least 20 seconds to figure out what in the heck you were talking about... :D :D Funny.


I bought 2005 Songwriters Market.... all the contacts you could want. Read the book, send your songs to all the appropriate contacts (following all the proper procedures for submitting material), and if your songs are good things will happen.

A
 
Aaron Cheney said:
.... and it took me at least 20 seconds to figure out what in the heck you were talking about... :D :D Funny.


I bought 2005 Songwriters Market.... all the contacts you could want. Read the book, send your songs to all the appropriate contacts (following all the proper procedures for submitting material), and if your songs are good things will happen.

A
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Oops.... just realized your not a Yank. Hmm... there must be something similar in England. And just FYI, that book does include several British publishing companies.

A
 
tanlith said:
Cools... And I fully agree that you should ALWAYS try to make contact FIRST and formost. That way you can put "Requested Material" on the envelope. It's sure to get to the proper desk then. The figure the guy is waiting for it.

- Tanlith -
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You could probably just put "requested material" on it anyway - guy will most likely be so coked up he won't remember what he asked for (sorry, cynical, worked in the industry....)
 
Garry Sharp said:
You could probably just put "requested material" on it anyway - guy will most likely be so coked up he won't remember what he asked for (sorry, cynical, worked in the industry....)
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You might be surprised... some of the places I've submitted to ask you to sign a contract just to submit!! Other places give you a code that must appear on the outside of the envelope. The ones I've used usually have a few numbers that give a date and few letters that indicate who it was that gave you permission to submit. Something like:

AARCHE05242005

A
 
apl does, but apperently he keeps losing them. :D

- Tanlith -
 
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