Yeah, PLainFlavored, that quite works, we did it a lot in our parties, but nowadays we deem it a bit sexist and try not to.

In any case, getting people in for free until a certain time will assure at least a bunch of people making teh base of the party. People who go to a place at a certain time and see it empty, don't want to get in.

little-scale: YES

One of the more interesting methods of promotion I've seen recently is making compilation CDRs (which feature music by the artists performing at the given show) to hand out, or to leave at local record stores as freebies. It might take a little bit of time to burn a hundred or so discs, but in the end doesn't really end up costing that much. Even if the person who picks up the disc doesn't end up at the show, both the artists appearing on the comp and the scene as a whole get exposure.

HAHA I love what this thread has become!

/me buys a plane tkt to Rawstralia

Actually... One of the venues we want to use, and have always wanted to use has a *ahem* "Male review show" one night a week.

That will get us the chicks and then the chicks will get us the guys! Everyone wins!

I think the obvious answer is: hold all chip shows in strip clubs from now on.

TBH I don't think I have ever been swayed by that sort of age-old marketing tool to purchase a product or go to an event - it's always been the quality of the product / event, and what other people have said about it.

I hoped you didn't mean it in that way, but still, it sends a weird message.

Didn't mean to send the wrong message or offend anyone. Of course this is not the sort of event you were trying to promote, and of course I am not trying to objectify women here.

DUDE'S NIGHT @ SOUNDBYTES WOO

Touche.

I'm feeling slightly insulted here : as a woman who has been working or has been involved in fields where women are outnumbered 10:1 by men ( literature, computers, and now putting up chip music shows it seems...) I know that being a "good-looking girl" has helped. It helps standing out, getting noticed. But then, you have to work your ass off, be more intelligent and efficient than anybody else to not be just that : a good-looking girl.

OK, I'll stfu and gb2 being an age-old marketing tool.

Personally (maybe bc I don't have that Y chromosome) don't agree on the hot chicks as a marketing tool thing, at least not in this circumstance. It takes a long time to build up the reputation that "oh yeah man, that party always has hot chicks there" and you can't exactly advertise your show as where the beautiful people hang out. If you were doing a weekly show, then maybe it would work as you could build up that kind of rep in a shorter time, you need consistency for that rep tho.

I guess I'm (we're) not putting on parties for people to pick up, or drool over the opposite sex, I just want people to come and enjoy the music.... otherwise we'd put on R&B nights

Good-looking girls are an age-old marketing tool. Letting ladies in free/at a discount really helps, having girls market your gig helps, anything without a Y chromosome helps.

Aha.
Kill the headliners as an opening act, thanks for the advice. Could probably make a better video out of it too

180bpm gabba it is, w/ or w/out BRK?

I have a very good idea.
You say that you are gonna kill those stupid fucks, organize a public lynching.
That surely will attract attention xD