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Split rehersal space with us
Blackstrap has a practice space in North Durham that we've been using for almost three years. Right now, we don't have anyone to split it with. At $155/month, it works out cheap if there is at least one more band to split the costs with.
It's an end unit at the Ample Storage facility on Old Oxford Road.
Cons:
- Not climate controlled. Space heaters in winter, fans in summer
- a hike if you aren't in the northern part of the Triangle. But we've had members hike from Chapel Hill and Raleigh, no problem.
The pros are:
- cheap per-person cost when you've got two bands using the space.
- Very good sound for a storage unit- one wall is plaster, the other two are concrete block. The only corugated metal is the garage door.
- A large space, something like 12x25 feet.
- We've got a decent PA
- We rarely use it more than two nights a week.
But if you've got something better, and need someone to split it with, we'd be interested in that too.
Reply to practice@blackstrap.org
posted by bendy @ 7/19/2005 05:41:00 PM [permanent link]
Blackstrap is a rockpunk band that was formed in 2002 by several
disgruntled music fans. Some had played in bands for years, some had
never been involved in music. All of us were upset with the
direction the USA was moving. As you can tell, our impact on all that
has been overwhelming.
We broke up in 2004, just before releasing a debut EP. We still feel
bad about messing up 307 Knox Records
like that. We got back together in
2005. We might drive each other crazy again, so no promises.
We're a band that doesn't have many options as far as
money and time and touring and all those other thing that could make a
band be your life. The web is the main way we promote
ourselves. We figured out we should share what meager knowledge we have
obtained.
RESOURCES
or "Promoting Your Music as the Music Industry We Know and Dislike Dies...."
Websites are a lot of work to figure out, and don't work any magic
on their own. Most people who view your website are already going to know you exist.
Just having a website doesn't mean anyone is going to visit. So don't
worry about securing an Internet domain right away. Stick some
music on MySpace,
and then participate in sites that might actually drive interested
listeners to your music. Blackstrap gets more hits from our link
on ncpunkonline.com than from
higher-profile sites where we get lost in the shuffle.
There are advantages to having your own custom built website and
domain name, but it's only as useful to the extent that it gets linked to.
Here are some sites that are important and help to get noticed. They aren't all music sites, specifically. Alot of them require participation. But hey, you wanted to be on stage, right?
JUST HEARD
WEEKLY FAVS
LOOKING AT...
what else?
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