Posted on Apr 22 2015 08:37 AM
JakeDobner wrote:
"I'm not a big fan of an annual event like this. While dropping the pretense of a 'day' I feel the effort could be put towards the surf community banding together to better market/advertise releases, shows. This could including banding together to purchase ad space, a systematic approach towards announcing shows, etc..."
I think a lot of these are great ideas but how do we go about implementing them?
"If there is a single day, the day that would make sense would be the date of the SG101 convention. Having it on a significant day, means weekdays are in play... a graveyard for live gigs."
The SG101 convention is a destination whereas I feel working at the grass roots level, where every town with a surf group therein organizes an event, could be more effective. To avoid weekdays, we could always go with a specific Saturday within a month or pick the weekend closest to whichever date we may choose.
"Releases really can't be organized in our community, it would also dilute the market actually taking sales away from bands(who is going to drop $100 on music in a day, aside from myself)."
This is a totally valid concern but there are always "perks", extra content like b-sides, covers, and the like. Artists (and even labels like Double Crown and Deep Eddy) could also chose to put their material on sale the day in question as well.
"One day a year just isn't enough, to build a new fanbase you have to be out there all the time. Constantly making the music available to people, playing shows, being unexpected."
I TOTALLY agree but how is that different from what we're already doing and how effective are we? I just think having a day could be an extra push or something around which we can all rally.
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