Thursday, March 11, 2010
Cream WTF, MTSU: No PR for GZA in the JUB?
Posted by Sean Maloney on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Sooooo, allegedly Middle Tennessee State University has one of the best music business programs in the country, and that program is one of the biggest on campus. So why can't my alma mater promote a show to save its goddamn life? Again, MTSU is supposed to be knowledgeable about how these things work, yet so far the only promotion I've seen for legendary Wu-Tang Clan member GZA's show on Mar. 31 is a fucking Facebook event page! I know that "the kids" are really into "the Facebook," but if you are going to promote a show, it's a good idea to let the press know it's happening through less ephemeral means -- like maybe an email perhaps? What the hell are they teaching these kids these days?
Now, I'll admit I've known about this show for awhile, but without an official announcement, I'm not going to do all the journalisty things that show promoters like me to do. Waiting until three weeks before the show to send out an informal event invite is the kind of amateur-hour bullshit I'd expect from a band who's playing their first show at The Boro. But when it comes from an established and long-running student organization? That's some bullshit. Maybe that's why MTSU barely has any friends. Didn't anybody in this organization take Rich Barnett's (totally awesome) concert promotion class? It should be required for anybody that's going to spend university money on shows -- there ain't a lot of it going around these days, and it shouldn't be wasted on half-hearted promotion.
That said, the motherfuckin' GENIUS is gonna be at MTSU!!! Fuck yeah!!! Scene favorites The Biscuits N Gravy Band and DJ Kidsmeal open up. Tickets are $6 for students and $12 at the door, and the whole thing goes down at 7 p.m. in the Tennessee Room of the James Union Building on Mar. 31. But between now and then you best roll that shit, light that shit and smoke it, 'cause we've got a blunt-load of GZA videos.
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Sean,
100% agree.
FUCKING CLOWN SHOES.
See you there, let's try and see if Dugan wants to go for a pregame cruise around the square.
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I'm just saying that if the women's basketball team emails and the mass com alumni newsletter can find me...
if they were smart. they'd get me to do a sweet limited edition poster for them...
For reals. LYK YOU SEEN FUCKEN ALIENS!!!! Wow. Gza. Maloney, ill be at 319 bell street when you want to cheef blunts before tha show.
MTSU, or murfreesboro for that matter, doesn't care about urban music. Plus, Mac tha Muthafuckin' Knife will be opening up with Word Up as well.
I completely agree with your article on MTSU's lack of promotion on campus. Last year in my Marketing of Recording class I got into a debate with one of the student concert promoters for MTSU. This student had told me that it was a MTSU rule that there were certain places on campus that flyers, posters, and other promotional materials can be posted on campus. My response was,"Are those locations on campus?" and " Why can't you just post whatever you want up and not tell anyone it's official?". His answers were just about following policy and not breaking the rules. It's a bunch of freaking nonsense and it disappoints me to hear that yet again even after the whole Kayne West debacle, that MTSU is about to sand bag another and yet way better hip hop legend. By the way I am a RIM biz student at MTSU and I am doing my best to promote this show with the three days notice that I have had of it. Thanks to the Nashville Scence who has their shit together.
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