Captains log

Well times are exciting for the captain . Captain bleeped out at wrongpop last Friday great set , great crowd, great promotor and when is say great promotor I do mean it. See the captain gets offered a lot of deals where a promoter books the captain and them gives us a bunch of tickets and says you have to sell this many 30 tickets I'll keep half the cash and the band gets the other half. Now that stuff doesn't wash with us. If you call yourself a promotor and what's more expect to earn money off nights by being one them sell the fucking tickets yourself.tHat's what promotion is. Don't ask the bands to do it we are there to play the music and the tiny 30 quid split three ways doesn't even cover the costs of petrol. Now at this point people sometimes say yes but you shoud be prepared to promote your own band. Well the captain is and he does. But let's be honest if we want to play a gig that we promote ourselves it's better for us to wok directly with the venue rather than a middle man who takes a cut then asks us to do the promotion. When we work with the venue we choose the acts we play with often we can make the door price free so as many people come as we can and no slackarse middleman taking any cash.
This is why we love promotors like steve wrongpop he's a better class of promtor. He books the bands, works with the venue AND promotes the night rather than putting the expectation on the bands. He makes sure the crowd is there and the bands get paid. Now thats what i call promotion. And it's because of promoters like steve that we were able to give a free wwtcd tape to every wrongpop goer. So steve whenever you want a herzoga remix just call.

In other news the captain might be getting played on BBC radio subculture tonight. Exciting times indeed plus we are just confirming some date in Stafford with ford squad. And even more exciting we are working on some new material. Imagine thurston Moore recreating daft punk on a commodore 64 with at the drive in doing vocals and you are hot hot close but not disco.



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