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How To Turn A Show In Front Of 8 People Into One Of Your Most Important Shows

 


Socialize

The number one thing to remember is the saying "it's not how good you are, its who you know." While not always the case, many bands get opportunities because they are in with another band. So how do you become "in" with another band? BE FRIENDLY! The single best thing you can do at an empty show is get together with the other bands and discuss real things... It pays to be friendly in these situations, even to bands who are terrible and have no fans! You never know who is going to get huge, even when you think they suck, that band could get a whole lot better in two years and take you with them. If you don't know it by now, being a dick doesn't make you seem like a rock star, it makes you seem like a dick.



Fans

It's not just the band you can socialize with, you can talk to the fans too! Something weird happens when you walk into a bar and it is filled to the brim with people, where as if you walk into the same size bar and it is kind of empty all of a sudden everyone starts talking to each other. This is the same thing at shows, it is totally acceptable to hang out and make good friends with the people...



Impress

True story! Once, a long, long time ago, I was in a band. We rolled into a desolate town and played a show to a dozen people. There were more people in bands than people in attendance. Despite this fact, we went on stage and did what we always did, gave it 110%. After the set, about ten of the dozen people in attendance came up to us and said they had never seen a band go so crazy despite no one being around, and we were rewarded with everyone in the audience buying tons of our merch, to make up for the fact that their town was so lame that no one came to see what they found to be an amazing experience. It gets even better! It turned out in attendance that night a girl was in the audience whose brother was A&R at one of the largest Indies in the country... playing our asses off for no one really made us worth talking about, and it gave us an amazing opportunity that could have been life changing.



Word Gets Around

When you give it your all live in front of a small audience, it isn't just about the sibling of a famous A&R person. When I have seen bands play their asses off to small crowds, I tell everyone...



Keep It Clean

I am not one to say you should play every show sober. I have seen some of my favorite bands play some of the best sets I have ever seen, intoxicated out of their minds. What I will say is this - do not use the show where no one is there as the time to test if you can really drink a whole bottle of absinthe and still get through the set. As we stated above, this is an opportunity to blow some people away... This is the night to get 8 people telling everyone of their friends "I saw ____ and even though no one was there they blew me away with how amazing they played." Save the drinking contest for practice or the next time you play a party.



Take Requests!

If you are in a band and some of those 8 people are actually people who like your band and know your music, make it fun and engaging for them... Don't look at an empty room as disappointment, but instead as good practice and occasionally an unforeseen opportunity."

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