What is so frustrating is this…
Today I made calls to Athens, again, to try and verify these two clubs got kits and see about booking. I have been trying to get someone on the phone for the past month at both. One got the kit but is booked through Dec. and suggested the best shot I have is to book a show with a headliner. The other has changed booking people and needs a kit again. Neither seemed to know or care who I was, and the mention of Daemon Records didn’t change things. This has been typical of every venue so far.
Then thirty minutes later I’m on the phone with the IG manager’s office, about the Florida shows. They’re just letting me know the details, that we’re included in the catering, and other various details.
So, in just a few short weeks, I will be on the road in a van with the band. Opening for the Indigo Girls in front of an average of 2000 people a night for a week. Then I will come home to make more phone calls to deal with people who don’t know or care who I am and won’t book me. Meanwhile the CD has been out since September and I feel no momentum. No radio station in the southeast has added it to rotation. I can’t use that to book shows.
Am I just this bad at booking?
Sod it all. I’m just venting. Don’t mind me.