Where have all the old fans gone?

[inglorious01]

I'm just wondering what's happened to all the fans that pushed PHUQ to no 6 and Fishing For Luckies to no 15 in the album charts?

Did Anthem and Endless Nameless lose the band so many fans?? Or has all the constant splitting up and reforming put a lot of people off?

[Sarc]

We're still out there i just think that maybe we've all grown up a lot and have other things that demand our money first like bills and kids,

my god that was a boring answer wasn't it.

[geordierussell]

We're still out there i just think that maybe we've all grown up a lot and have other things that demand our money first like bills and kids,

my god that was a boring answer wasn't it.

VV boring, yet VV true.

[Dark Lord of Barnet]

I met plenty of fans from the early days at the London show tonight - it's inevitable there will be some 'natural wastage' ect, as people 'grow up' - but some of us still have no intention of growing up any time soon...

[PeeCee]

And some even bother to travel from Portugal for a WH gig

Awesome gig tonight the best WH gig I ever seen. Great to be with Dom, Kris and Trudi and the Reading guy (sorry mate I don't remember your name but we had a good chat). Too bad I didn't find Ila and Rob

[Workyticket]

Well I'm one of 'em (Got into the WH with 'Earth Vs.' in '93). What can I say, I'm too poor to make bills & too ugly to have kids... but at least I'm one with the Rock!

[Keith Richard]

I've been hooked siince the day Earth vs was released. Bought every release since. EN kind of lost me.......never really got it, althogh I do dust it down every now and again. Never became a LiSTEE until almost a decade later when I discovered the internet.

[EvilNeil]

I'm still here! Loved them since 94! for me, the constant line-up changes has began to piss me off a bit! it really is getting to the point where when you go and see them, it could be anyone on stage!! and I didn't really like Valor or Yoni

and, as much as it pains me to say it, I'm not keen on the new Wildhearts album either, it just seems to be riffage for the sake of it! almost a 'fuck you' to the reaction of ...must be destroyed. I hope it'll grow on me though. I like it more than ...must be destroyed, but I don't think the Wildies will ever top PHUQ/Fishin For Luckies era!!! maybe the fact that I hadn't heard any of these songs before I actually had the album in my hands has contributed to that?!

[Ross]

I'm still here. I must admit, I was totally skeptical about another reformation, but I bought the album and I've been converted totally!

[Keith Richard]

And some even bother to travel from Portugal for a WH gig

Trust me, there are those who travel far further a field for the privilage If the mountain wont come to Mohammad..........

[Sarc]

If the mountain wont come to Mohammad..........

......then its just being downright lazy

[pete]

i was never on the mailing list (no pc) but did admit to hearing ver little after PHUQ and Fishing got back into them through Silver ginger 5 and then heard Vanilla radio
now im back and i aint goin nowhere

[Keith Richard]

By the way, are we talking about fans who are old, or folks who have been fans of the band for a long time?........suppose it doesn't really make any difference as far as I'm concerned

[DangerousBeans]

Quite simply i'd say a lot of people wont know about the new stuff due to the marketing/publicity of it.

If you look back to the PHUQ era The Wildhearts were in almost every magazine and doing cover shoots.They were also in the more mainstream magazines like NME.etc.Being with a bigger record company at the time would also have helped with marketing in the UK(look even at Endless Namless..i'm sure i still have some Anthem Car stickers in the house somewhere and we got sent newsletters from Mushroom).

Failing to release a proper single(i'm old fashioned..i wont pay for a song download..i'd rather buy it in the shop than pay for a download then use a cd i'd bought)will also impact on the number of people who are going to hear about things.I wanna go where the people go etc got the band on to TOTP as did their other singles but now TOTP is no more so there will be less scope for appearing on Tv.

I could've saved a lot of time by saying the market is different...you only get exposure if you're a whiny shite band(not shiny white..whiny shite) or for some reason R and B.

Conclusion..the fair weather fans probably dont even know whats happening as they're listening to Arctic Monkeys or being miserable to some emo pish.

[Ross]

Of course the problem is Marketing. And the reason for this is that Ginger is releasing this album on his own label, and I'd bet they're doing the promotion themselves, or have at least a skeleton promotion staff. Before, they were signed to a major record label, with all that entails. I think they've done pretty well on promotion of this album, with the lack of a supportive TV show (used to be top of the pops, I can't see them going on the "so-ironic-it-must-be-trendy" T4 shows and their ilk) being why they're not more 'out there'.