Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

A few months ago I wrote a blog entry about a horrible place that was getting young bands to "open" for other bands by paying large sums of money (or what I would consider large amounts of money). The guy who runs this place has been known to try and leverage people and print advertisement follow up with "Hey we printed your ads, now you have to pay to play!"

Most recently I received more spam from this looser and just asked him to take us off his mailing list because I didn't agree with his tactics.

Now, this Southeastern Wisconsin Venue considers that request unreasonable and even states that forwarding email can be punishable by law. If you want more information about this venue, you won't have to look far on the internet.

Here are some tips for new bands:

1. If someone says you are great, but have to fork over some money for advertisement at their "Big Venue" you might reconsider.
2. If you have to pay someone at your venue to have security for your protection you might reconsider.
3. Big touring bands don't usually do searches for unheard of artists.

Everyone has to do their time these days.