Promising Newcomers: Sunset Riot
- Category: Artists
- Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 15:17
- Written by Mario
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50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from, ...? Please tell us something about Sunset Riot. SR: Sunset Riot is a 5 piece hard rock band from Western Sydney. We've been together for around 10 months now and have been gigging solidly for 9. We all love music that is uplifting and heavy hitting, music that is played passionately and that is inspiring or moving in some way. Sometimes live music can become a bit stale so we strive to make our live stage shows as energetic, explosive and entertaining as possible. Recently we recieved a call from producer Steve James (Cold Chisel, Screaming Jets, Mental As Anything, Airbourne, Guitar Hero World Tour) who wanted to cut a record with us. We are currently working together to produce our very first EP; which is very exciting! 50K MM: How did you discover SellaBand? SR: We actually discovered SellaBand thru Classic Rock Magazine. I (Del) happened to be browsing thru and noticed a small article on Japanese rock band Electric Eel Shock. In the article they mention that they funded their first record thru SellaBand so I thought I'd check it out. 50K MM: How are you going to convince people to believe (and invest) in you? SR: We are very much a grassroots band. We write about everyday issues dilemmas, problems etc. We have a drink with fans after the show and we interact with fans during the show. We intend to continue building our fanbase as well as fan commitment by contant communication (thru blogs, video-logues, updates etc). We do regular updates on our youtube channel (www.youtube.com/sunsetriot) which helps to build a sense of community. Everybody wants to feel like they 'belong' an we recorgnize that we cannot do this on our own. This is a journey and we encourage participation, the whole 'let's do this together' attitude. 50K MM: You have raised about 3% of the budget so far. Have you thought about the time after reaching the goal of 15k yet? What are your plans then? SR: We have in fact thought about what we could do with the money once its raised, in fact the sooner the better, haha! The plain and simple truth in the music industry is that you MUST advertise and you MUST tour; both of which cost money. Our plan is to make a hard as steel rock record, then advertise and tour as much as we can. Overseas (Europe, Asia) touring is a big goal, there are so many more people there which means our chances of playing to bigger crowds rise substantially. 50K MM: And last question: How can we support you to speed up raising your budget? SR: I thought you'd never ask ;) Any sort of promotion is great, simply by running a story on us you've helped us already, featuring a link to our myspace or facebook (or both) and SellaBand page, mentioning our name, publishing followup interviews or directing people to our youtube page so fans can get to know us better. As I said before we feel like we are a grassroots rock band, we put on a pretty full on stage show but we'll always be 'the people's band' so get to know us :) www.sellaband.com/sunsetriot
