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Getting gigs in Atlanta
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| keithos27 |
Hi fellow ATL TAs. Can you guys please tell me who are the right people to contact and send demos to regarding getting gigs here in Atlanta? Would love to start playing out locally!
Thank you.
-Keith |
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| nrjizer |
| They're easy to find. Go to their shows and meet them. |
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| Ted Promo |
| Simple as that, honestly. |
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| Ted Promo |
| Havin' fun isn't hard when you got a library card! |
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| DiscoStew |
| What everyone else said. Just be ready to play stuff other than what you would play at home. |
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| Ted Promo |
Eh, I mean, yeah, if you play trance or happy hardcore it'll be hard to get a gig playing that, but there's tons of other genres that many smaller promoters are open to.
(i.e., me) |
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| keithos27 |
LOL thanks for the straight forward answers guys. I play a few different genres... progressive house, house, trance, and techno so I think I should be able to "fit in" at certain places here around town.
Ted, where do you promote at? And do you look for?
Chris, where have you been playing? I remember you played one at Door 44. Where else and what style? |
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| Ted Promo |
I *just* started promoting. Details will follow soon as far as our first artist and venue but we're looking at tentative dates being either the 21st or 29th of May.
I'll be booking an eclectic mix of artists/djs/live-acts, whatever's good.
The venues we've been looking at so far are 7 Stages in Little Five and Eyedrum Art Gallery. Offbeat stuff, so keep that in mind. And we plan on having charitable organizations and live art going on as well.
So yeah, send me a demo. I'll peep dat sheez. |
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| coroknight |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
I *just* started promoting. Details will follow soon as far as our first artist and venue but we're looking at tentative dates being either the 21st or 29th of May.
I'll be booking an eclectic mix of artists/djs/live-acts, whatever's good.
The venues we've been looking at so far are 7 Stages in Little Five and Eyedrum Art Gallery. Offbeat stuff, so keep that in mind. And we plan on having charitable organizations and live art going on as well.
So yeah, send me a demo. I'll peep dat sheez. |
ooooh that sounds nice. I'd be interested too |
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| DiscoStew |
| quote: | Originally posted by keithos27
LOL thanks for the straight forward answers guys. I play a few different genres... progressive house, house, trance, and techno so I think I should be able to "fit in" at certain places here around town.
Ted, where do you promote at? And do you look for?
Chris, where have you been playing? I remember you played one at Door 44. Where else and what style? |
Hey Keith. I've been kind of all over. I have a resident spot at Aurum right now. I did a lot of work with the owners as they were designing and building the place. I was playing there every Thursday and some Saturdays for a few months to help them out when they just opened. Now that they have established themselves, we have a variety of DJ's performing on a monthly rotation. I might be doing some opening sets at Halo beginning in April too.
As far as genre's go, here is a (non-comprehensive) list of things to consider:
- The brand/feel/vibe/(insert other vague word here) of the venue. Most *successful* places come with a built in crowd and has developed a strategy to market to a specific and consistent demographic. You'll have to maintain that image. (Unless, of course, you're working on a new event, which requires far more work than just DJing.)
- The preferences of the crowd
- The preferences of the promoters and venue owners (they know their market and they write the checks, so it's usually good to listen to them)
- The other DJ's you are performing with
- The time of night (pre-party, opener, peak-hour, after hours)
To make this a little more pragmatic, let me give you a couple examples. Last summer, I had a once-a-week gig at a rooftop bar that started as early as 8:00 PM and went til 2:00 AM. I found that vocal house worked best for outside + summer + still daylight.
I'll contrast that with a Thursday night at Aurum. There you have a mix of midtown and Buckhead (i.e., young and "less young") professionals who want a place to hang out and talk but also need enough energy in the music to keep moving on a weeknight. So, you want to minimize the vocals (the most difficult frequency range to talk over) and play something with a good groove to it. Deeper house works here. Not surprisingly, a Saturday at the same venue is an entirely different story.
What it really comes down to is playing stuff that appeals to the most people while still doing something you like and staying true to yourself. |
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