
Originally Posted by
3heads
And let's face it, until you're reasonably big, publicity on the internet is not of much importance for anything that counts (i.e. getting booked for gigs). It's all word of mouth, and first and foremost knowing people.
I'll give you an example: a guy I know (he played at a couple of illegal open-air parties some friends and me were organizing in Berlin last year) started gigging in fall 2010. When he played at our parties last year he was already quite on the rise in the Berlin scene just because he knew many of the people even before he had started gigging (he's a good DJ as well, but that's not the primary reason he got booked so much). He already played 2 or 3 gigs a week at fairly renown clubs in Berlin. And the last couple of months he has gone through the roof completely - playing even more gigs in even better clubs in Berlin (even my favourite club of all: kater holzig, the successor of the infamous Bar25) and has loads of international bookings as well (according to his gigatools-page). Did any of that depend on his publicity on the internet? I don't think so - it's really more about meeting people out in the real world.
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