Tag Archives | diy

11 October 2011

Using Ticket Tailor to sell tickets for your gigs

Often on the blog we talk about putting on your own gigs and how to make things happen for yourself. One of the things you will want to do when organising your own events is to sell tickets via the web. Ticket Tailor is a company that allows you to sell tickets for your events [...]

21 July 2011

9 things bands do that waste time

DIY musicians rarely find themselves with any spare time, they need to focus on the important things that will build you an audience. Important tasks like listing your gigs on Live Unsigned, talking to fans, sending messages to your mailing list, dealing with the industry and booking gigs are more than enough to keep you [...]

19 July 2011

How do you create great album artwork?

Unsigned bands are expected to be many things, from booking agents to web designers to social media content creators. One thing that you will need that is essential is a great album cover. For some artists the physical album is less important but some sort of artwork that you associate with a release will always [...]

24 May 2011

5 ways you can make your fans feel special

Every act from hip-hop to death metal needs fans, people who support you financially and spread the word about your music. But why should fans choose to follow you? It takes more than great music, although that always has to be the start of it all. To build a fan base you need to build [...]

24 March 2011

9 lessons DIY musicians can learn from Black Flag

Many of the techniques for promoting yourself as a DIY musician in 2011 were first pioneered by US hardcore bands in the late 70′s/early 80′s. One of the first of the hardcore bands was Black Flag, best known for launching the career of Henry Rollins. Their is much to be learned from their DIY punk [...]

10 December 2010

Squats – great places to play as an unsigned band

Live Unsigned’s resident reviewer Oli Arditi will be contributing to the blog over the next few weeks taking a special look at squat scenes as a hub for some of the most interesting musicians and event organisers – an area of special interest to us at Live Unsigned. The first post in the series gives [...]