If You Can Believe All the Hype....

Since there were no gigs on the calendar and no rehearsals scheduled, I figured I might as well start entering the band in contests.

In December, I received notice that Symon's New Blue Diamonds had been selected as a featured artist at Skope Media:

"Thanks so much for your submission to Skopemag.com! We have just reviewed your profile and would like to feature your music on Skope for 1 month. Please feel free to email 1 MP3 or 1 URL to your music video via Youtube/Vimeo/Myspace. We would like you to choose the current single that you are most currently promoting."

(I should be mentioned that I had originally submitted to this contest through the ReverbNation contest page) I sent Skope a link to the video for Girls Who Drink, after reading the fine print that reveals that my video will be one of dozens of videos in random rotation on the home page for a month.

I tested it out - I sat on the home page at Skope for almost an hour and kept refreshing my browser to reload the page, and I never saw our video come up even once in the viewer. In the meantime, Skope started sending me invitations to sign up for pay-by-the-month subscrription-style services, which I'm sure are just fine, but I dunno... spending my own money on "digital online promotion" instead of actual physical event promotion seems rather foolish at this point.

I really need to get my ass busy and book a show somewhere. It's rather ironic because money is not really the resource issue at this point, it's TIME. I'm right in the middle of changing up my day job for something new, and that is taking all my effort. Also, since the band does not have a real club-going following anymore or a presence in the local scene, I will have to hire someone who knows what they are doing to pump our one gig in 2012 AND also rent a club somewhere to throw the event. yEEEeeeesh!

In the meantime - I also entered all five videos on the Symon's New Blue Diamonds Vimeo web site to the Annual Vimeo Festival Awards contest. It was cheap and from what I saw when I checked it out, they have a little bit of everything featured in various catagories. There are CASH prizes, too - up to $50,000 in prize packages and incentives for the purpose of shooting more videos, which is all right by me. I dropped almost $5,000 shooting the Rhino video, so I know how much winning this contest could help defray the cost of yet more silliness.

The Vimeo site says this about the contest:
"Entries will be judged between February 21, 2012 and April 30, 2012 (the "Judging Period"). Awards will be announced on or before June 7, 2012."

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