Owngig.com is a new online community designed to help fans bring their favourite new acts to their local area and in turn assists those artists to better promote such events.
By removing the guesswork, the service offers everyone a better way of planning live music from the best up and coming bands in the UK and beyond.
The fan simply selects an artist from the Owngig database, pledges to see them and states what they would be willing to pay and how far they would be willing to travel for the show.
Owngig tracks the bids and when sufficient interest is created the artist is informed.
The site provides promotional tools for fans to spread the word about a potential show, and rewards points to each fan for the promotion of a gig on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and forums and emailing friends.
When a show is announced, the two fans with the highest number…
Download Festival this year for us was incredible. It’s been so great seeing and talking to you all! I, and we, want to thank you guys for your continued support for our new band. We’ve been in NYC and Finland writing our new album, which we can’t wait for you to hear, so to get over to England and get such a great reception was really special for us. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Looking forward to seeing you soon again.
Have a great summer!
Respect & Rock’n'Roll,
*Michael Monroe*
MiMi Soya announce brand new EP & UK Tour
Brighton pop-rockers MiMi Soya are hitting the road this May/ June in support of their stunning new EP ‘I Can’t Stand Pop Bands…’, due out on 14th June through LAB Records.
The four-strong band spent 2009 on tour with Fueled By Ramen’s Cobra Starship, sharing stages with the likes of Set Your Goals, Go: Audio, Newton Faulkner and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, and shifted a whopping 5000 copies of their last EP in the process. With the new decade, a new approach has been adopted by the band. They’ve been locked away with Romesh Dodangoda (Kids In Glass Houses, Funeral For A Friend) at Longwave Studios honing some huge pop anthems to compliment their sunny, addictive melodies and stirring guitar riffs. It’s a bit of a rebirth as guitarist Chris explains;
“I’m sooooo excited for everyone…
LAB Records’ Mark Orr picks us some tracks