MAY TOUR - STREET TEAM HELP REQUEST

[shadow]

yeah.....i know....promise this time....................................................................only......

[Assmask]

LOL

My 2 cents worth is that any more info than there already is would serve only to make the poster look more cluttered and unprofessional.

Personally I think that the trade off of the limited benefit of adding all of the marginal artists names to the poster against the lessened creditability of having it appear like a half arsed backroom jobby is insufficient to warrant their inclusion.

[kriscoverdale]

Hi All,

Ginger has asked me to pass on a message to everyone contributing to this thread:

Hey!
Just wanted to thank everyone who's been talking up great promo ideas, printing off posters and getting them around, and everyone else just willing to lend a hand in any way at all in order to promote the solo shows.
You guys are amazing. It's because of people like you that I get to carry on making music for a living and I love you for it. God bless you all, can't wait to say hi after the show.
Look for me where they sell T shirts and CD's. Please come and let me thank you in person for keeping the faith and the spirit alive.
This is going to be a great year of music, I promise.

Gx

[Andy]

Hi All,

Ginger has asked me to pass on a message to everyone contributing to this thread:

Hey!
Just wanted to thank everyone who's been talking up great promo ideas, printing off posters and getting them around, and everyone else just willing to lend a hand in any way at all in order to promote the solo shows.
You guys are amazing. It's because of people like you that I get to carry on making music for a living and I love you for it. God bless you all, can't wait to say hi after the show.
Look for me where they sell T shirts and CD's. Please come and let me thank you in person for keeping the faith and the spirit alive.
This is going to be a great year of music, I promise.

Gx

Had a tear in my eye reading that.
Great stuff.

[vickyp]

That made me smile for the first time today. Which is quite an achievement given how shit a day I've had!

Okay, this band thing - I have no doubt that the band will be cracking, and I know that people will be interested to know that Jase and Denzel will be there. However, this has already been mentioned on here, on the e-mail list, on facebook, on last.fm, everywhere in fact that the original message was posted. There's plenty of places where people can find this info.
This poster will probably get seen in passing / in shops etc. so it really just needs to say 'Oi! Ginger's touring - this is the date.' These are the key bits of info and like Assmask says, if I put too much text on there I would have to make it all really small, then people will be less likely to read it. Plus bear in mind this poster's probably going to be competing with others around it - therefore the key points need to stand out as much as possible.
It's not the be all and end all, it's only one part of a campaign which is about getting the dates out there then people can pick up on that and come here if they want to know more. In fact, the deliberate omission of the details about who else is playing may well act as a teaser to get people interested to try to find out more, look at it that way!

[thebelfastginger]

How's it going lad's, i'm already in the process of promoting the belfast ginger date. good old word of mouth can't be beat. also I will print off the poster and give it in with the event details to a load of shops in the city centre. i'm pretty well known so should get it into a load of places.
peace and love.

[vickyp]

Okay I've got a flyer to look at now. I thought these would work best in portrait format, as some of the clubs I've asked about taking them into have those flyer holder racks which hold them this way up. Anyhoo:

The flyers can then go 4 to a sheet on A4 paper. I'll make them 4-up for the downloads so then they can be photocopied/printed out and cut up and then forced upon the unsuspecting public I'm taking some out with me in Leeds tomorrow night.

I tried changing the poster and putting in an extra line of text to say '+ full live band' or variations of that, but it just looked odd and didn't really work. So I've just tweaked it to say 'Special Guests'.

If there's no major objections to this I will make one per date and send 'em over to Kris to make them available for download. Same with the flyers.

[Chris Davies]

Great message from Ginger. He is a true legend.

Really looking forward to seeing him live again, haven't seen him in nearly two years and honestly I was starting to get really annoyed by it. Roll on the tour and the new wildhearts album.

[sidecar]

vicky- i've taken the liberty of printing off your flyer and poster, had spent ages dicking around with it myself, but you've managed a far more professional job than i did, so, ta! if you want to co-ordinate a paper attack on Leeds, let me know!

[vickyp]

Sidecar - thank you! I have high-res versions as well, just need to send them all to Kris for hosting. I'll send you a message about Leeds-specific stuff. I've done posters for most the dates except Belfast + Winchester cos they still haven't confirmed times & prices. Flyers are next on my to-do list, I'd better get on with them now. I guess some low-res copies for people to put on myspace / facebook / twitter / whatever might be useful too.

[Ean]

'I guess some low-res copies for people to put on myspace / facebook / twitter / whatever might be useful too.

I think maybe a poster with all the dates on would be best for those sites as they're not so localised?

[vickyp]

good thinking Batman!

[Assmask]

How's it going lad's, i'm already in the process of promoting the belfast ginger date. good old word of mouth can't be beat. also I will print off the poster and give it in with the event details to a load of shops in the city centre. i'm pretty well known so should get it into a load of places.
peace and love.

I've been doing the same - but the only people I know are my band and our immediate acquaintances (I've only been here a short while) but most of them will be coming - if only to see who my biggest influence is!

If you're on Fastfude could you help keep this thread moving? Had a few responses but that site moves quite quickly so I want to keep the thread near the top of the listings. http://fastfude.org/topic.php?id=33201

Where are you printing the poster? I have an inkjet at home but that poster on this site would cost a couple of quid a pop in colour ink - and black and white it would look bad with that background. But I'm moving to Ravenhill next week so putting up posters will be a cinch (especially on Ormeau Road). Right now I'm in Carryduff - not quite rocknroll central!

[Assmask]

I've done posters for most the dates except Belfast + Winchester cos they still haven't confirmed times & prices.

Hi Vicky, I've just heard back from the promoter, Tickets go on sale today.

Priced at £12.50.
Starts at 9pm

from www.geturticket.com - and the venue I assume.

[Ean]

I've done posters for most the dates except Belfast + Winchester cos they still haven't confirmed times & prices.

Hi Vicky, I've just heard back from the promoter, Tickets go on sale today.

Priced at £12.50.
Starts at 9pm

from www.geturticket.com - and the venue I assume.

Tickets are up now - see the main thread. Geturtickets are charging £13.50 though...

Somewhat annoyingly, the venue's website has a ticket link on it that leads to A Camp's entry at geturticket.