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greenerside_music

PR Excersize

1 year ago

The Plan:

As P.R manager I intend to get as much publisity for our company(Greenerside Music) our 6 bands our blast beat battle of the bands and for sales of our blast beat c.ds

Fristly i will start with the school(muckross) and the local area(other surround schools e.g Conlets etc). I shall get premission from ms.Fitsimons our princpal, to make an announcament about our mini company, explaning what the blast beat project entails.

I shall make leaflets about our comany also and distribute them around our school and in the local area of donneybrook after school as many other schools are suiated in this area

We also need to publisise our auditions we will hold to choose our top 6 bands for the battle of the bands. For this I shall get the design and I.T teems to design and print off eye catching posters about the auditions containing all the details and i shall post them around different schools in dublin.

To sell the blast beat c.ds i shall work closely with the marketing teem to publises them around the school are biggest market. I plan to make anoncements over the intercom, in the classes and to play the c.d during form tutor classes.I shall request permission from ms.Fiztsiomons to play the c.d over the intercom,in the hall at lunch and to sell them in the main concorse area at lunch and break.

I will get the design teem to create impressive posters about the c.ds and informing our market of where and when the can purchase the c.ds.

As for publising the battle of the bands i plan to get as much media coverage as possable

i will: ring and write to all the dublin radio stations(e.g spin 103.8, fm104, 2fm,98fm and phantom etc) i will inform them of our music company,the blast beat project, the up an coming irish acts were working with and ask them to announce our battle of the bands on their shows

i will write to all the dublin magzines such as hotpress, in dublin ,the gig guide and ask tem to add our battle of the bands details in their listings

i will also send press releases to all these radio stations and magazines about our company the gig and all our 6 bands including the bands info details and demos

a+r blog

1 year ago

Zara Ryan and Orla Byrne- A+R

To carry out our jobs as a+r we had to:

Auditions:

-We researched venues for our auditions to get our 6 bands for our battle of the bands and to find the best value for money. We eventually decided on Temple Bar Music Centre, and we booked it for the 2nd of December.
-We arranged to have posters and flyers with the art manager made with the details of the auditions and a contact number and e-mail address to find out more info and to book a time. We put posters up in different schools around Dublin and flyred town.
-We devised a timetable when bands started to call looking for a slot. We ended up have a full day booked with each band having a 25 minute slot to audition. Altogether we had 13 band auditioning.
-We devised a marking scheme to help choose our winning bands. It was based on each instrument, style, performance, stage presence and weather they wrote their own material.
In the end we chose our 6 bands which were:
-Mark Hogan and Band
-Addicted to Oxygen
-Quadrivia
-Halcyondaze
- San Salvador
-The Wake

Keeping in contact with the bands:

-We firstly informed the all the bands that auditions weather the were chosen as one of our six bands.
-We then kept in contact with the winning bands keeping then posted on upcoming events and gigs.
-After we found out the equipment needed for the battle of the bands, we contacted the bands and informed them on what they need to bring. We also told them when to arrive at radio city for sound checks etc.

Preparing for the gig:

-We found out the details of radio city e.g. the back line equipment, sound engineers, times etc.
-We then arranged a timetable when the bands would play and how long they would have to play, that suited all our bands taking into account, left handed drummers and travelling arrangements.
-We meet the bands there in advance for their sound checks.

Recording:

-We contacted our winning band Addicted to Oxygen about recording for the Coca Cola Blast:Beat V album, but unfortunately they decided against recording.

Keeping in contact with the winning bands:

-We�ve been keeping in contact with the winning band Addicted to Oxygen and the wildcard winner Mark Hogan and Band.
-We informed them on the dates of the regional finals, qualifiers and the national finals and any other events that we have been involved in.

Looking back:
-We would have provisionally checked the equipment in temple bar music centre as the equiptmed was not up to standards.
-We would have booked an extra date for auditions as some of the bands ran out of time before they were finished their set.
-We would have liked to record for the Coca Cola Blast:Beat V album, but unfortunately we couldn�t.

Marketing the B.O.T.B

1 year ago

Marketing Greenerside's Battle Of The Bands
marketings day out

Us greenersiders felt to have a successful battle of the bands we need to let our market know about it!!!!!!!

So off we went straight to town armed with only our posters a cammera and some doggy look'n hats( with tassels and all-dont ask!!) one Saturday morning.

After dancing around like mad yokes with posters to Mark Hogans new song "your boy friends a dick" and writing all our battle of the bands details in the sand on sanymount strand the night before we were a tad dosey but ready to use some gorilla tactics.

First stop Henry street and wath do we see put an aray of hen night girls in pink wigs and various accesories covered in the word sexy-classy very classey indeed Still thought us Greenersiders never miss out on a photo op. and the "classy birds"were "well keen"posers. Of course in return we pointed out the nearest pub and everyone was on there way

Next to templeBar where all the cool cats be chill'n We saw a cool man with a funny looking hat in got a pic, then there was a stag do!!! woopie and guess wath they were dressed in all green!!!perfect for the greenerside dollies,so they willingly posed for pic with our posters and then we left before any serious perving got under way

When old Grannmarie and I were just standing in Temple Bar watching for some passers by we saw none other than Mick Pyro!!! from Republic Of Loose only like one of my favourite bands!!!!! I literally jumped on the poor guy saying "oh my god your sooo cool, can i get a picture" the poor overwhelmed man was really nice about it and posed for a pic with the battle of the bands poster and all. He also said good look with the project girls, and thats deadly- in his litle cute dub accent.

After that excitement Grannmarie and I were on a high and ready to ambush all the emos round cental bank, most of them happly posed (but wit sad glum face, because god forbid they ruin their emo persona!!!) with our poster and agreed to come to our battle of the bands.

Next stop Gorges street Arcade, where all the arty farty types hang out, drinking lattesThis is where we spotted our next celebrity endorser the stylist from off the rails!!!!at this stage luckey i had calmed down from the excitement of meeting Mick Pyro, but still aoifa insisted she'd do all the talking this time. So she managed to get him to pose with our poster in his mouth!!!!!

So we tottered around for another while informing everyone in sight that "our battle of the bands is on this saturday"and taking more pics of peeps with the posters.

Then We moved on to Graften Street, where we came across another stag party!!!!!! this time dressed in nurses outfits!!!!!!! We asked for a pic with them holdind our poster but they insisted I get in too! with the nurses outfit on!!!!!!!!!!!!so i quickely threw it over my t-shirt and hurred annmarie, who was teasingly telling us to keep posing for more pics!!!I pulled off the nurses outfit and told grannmarie we'd better gobefore anyone was try'n any moves!!!!!!!!!

Then we got our old old pal Phil Lynott to pose with grannmarie!!!!!!!!!

While up the top of grafton street we saw the firemen where in town, with engine and all,so we sliped a few quid in to there money box and they agreed to pose for pic s in the fire engine with our poster!!!!

After like a hundred more randomers on grafton, henry and georges street posing for pics and bribing them to come to our battle of the bands and flyering EVERYONE!!we were finally ready to collapse and rock on home after our succesiful and banterful day of marketing.

yay marketing!!!!!!!!!

check out our billions of pics frm our marketing day out in the pics section.there tres funny

hehehheehheehehee hee hee marketing

laters

the marketing teem

Two Greenerside Music bands go through to Final!

1 year ago

The talent that graced the stage in Radio City on the 14th and 15th of April was overwhelming, our first band, Addicted to Oxygen, who are a trio from St. Mary's in Rathmines began the gig with a bang and were a wonderful start to what was a mad bangin kickass concert of awesomeness! Us Greenerside chicks weren't the only one's who thought so either, the Judges obviously agreed with us because Addicted to Oxygen got selected as a wildcard to play at the Blastbeat National Wildcard Final in Vicar Street at 1pm on the 6th of May, if when they win, they will go on to compete with the other bands (including our very own Mark Hogan) in the National Final at 7pm.

Marcus o Laoire, guitar, vocals and awful tennis player (though he does have a powerful serve!) with Addicted to Oxygen said "the competition is tough, but we've practiced hard and i think we definitely have a good chance at top spot in Vicar Street"

We think so too and would like to wish them the Best of luck!

On the 15th there was another gig, the Wildcards from each mini-Company's Battle of the Bands battled it out through music, like a sort of dance-off but with songs, to claim a place in the National Finals at Vicar Street. Again the competition was fierce, but Mark Hogan and his band managed to shine through all other bands to emerge as the winners of the wildcard regional finals, in dance-off terms I believe they call it "serving" the other bands.