play live?

[thecontrolcentre]

For local gigs its easy to approach venues yourself, but if you want to play elsewhere (other countries), it's worth getting a promoter. If they're any good you'll get paid too.

[harryupbabble]

I've been reading a bit about the Beatles. At some point they decided to stop performing live shows. It was after that that they supposedly wrote their best songs. What I get from this is that if you are busy playing your songs live then you don't have time to write new better songs. You get super-mega-ultra tired, you need drugs or whatever to cope. But I guess the Beatles had too much live gigs booked. Probably a gig a day or something like that.

Is the "play-live" industry still strong. What about holograms? Is that the future? Hologram-record the main guys/gals of the band once and the rest of the band (the drummer, the bassist, the session players, etc.) do the tours with the holograms of the main guys/gals (the vocalist and maybe the guitarist or whoever writes the songs or tunes). Seems like a good way for songwriters or tune-smiths to not burn out so fast. But I guess this would only be practical or applicable to "high-demand" bands.

[harryupbabble]

On second thought, some of the additional pluses and minuses of hologram concerts:

-feedback loop between the main performer(s) and the audience will be not two-way
-holograms are like movies, people still "interact" with who/what they see knowing it's not really there
-you won't have people like Axel Rose acting unpredictably and causing a riot
-you will have less hooligans throwing beer cans at the hologram singer
-hologram singer will be "ignorance-is-bliss" to the boos and claps
-the bassist and drummer, etc will be focused on more by the audience, not normally the case?
-you won't have on the news "Buddy Holly died in a crash on the way to the concert"

[Jesse Gorter]

What I've done before is just visit the local clubs and ask.
Or google "[your city] open mic night".

It might help us to know what continent / country / region you live.

Hi,

I live in Rotterdam
The thing is, do venues play only straight up dance or can you go in there and say 'I'm gonna play not unlike Jean Michel Jarre' and just wing it?

for example, I want to play this:

(the recording is really old I fixed it for the live set)

[BertKoor]

The thing is, do venues play only straight up dance or can you go in there and say 'I'm gonna play not unlike Jean Michel Jarre' and just wing it?

I can't answer that. Step into those venues where you think you make a chance and ask the manager.