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Best Case Scenario: We Look Like Bitches.
Best Case Scenario: We Look Like Bitches
I'm going to address this publicly, because I'm sick of writing emails that go like this:
Hello ___________,
Thank you for reading our website, we're glad that you enjoyed our work and hope you continue to read as we get more and more content every day.
Unfortunately I can not facilitate your request for (INSERT BAND MEMBER'S NAME HERE)'s phone number/email/personal contact info/MSN/AIM/etc. We respect the privacy of all of the people we speak to and therefore it's against our company and moral policy to divulge personal information of the people we work with. We hope you understand.
You can try to contact (SO&SO) via public channels, try their MySpace page (URL) or Homepage Fanmail (URL).
-- Caity
www.thesoundfaction.com
Please stop contacting us and asking for people's information, we will absolutely never ever ever give it to you. Do you know what would happen to us if we were to give out phone numbers or email addresses? Best case scenario: we look like bitches. Worst case scenario: we get sued. Neither of which we specifically want to have happen.Thank you for reading our website, we're glad that you enjoyed our work and hope you continue to read as we get more and more content every day.
Unfortunately I can not facilitate your request for (INSERT BAND MEMBER'S NAME HERE)'s phone number/email/personal contact info/MSN/AIM/etc. We respect the privacy of all of the people we speak to and therefore it's against our company and moral policy to divulge personal information of the people we work with. We hope you understand.
You can try to contact (SO&SO) via public channels, try their MySpace page (URL) or Homepage Fanmail (URL).
-- Caity
www.thesoundfaction.com
We approach this website as fans first and foremost, we're in the same boat you are! We love the bands we work with, support and promote and we hope that coming to the table from that angle gives us a little bit of a leg up on the competition out there, so when we do score an interview we're stoked and we party a little, do our individual happy-dances so to speak, the last thing we would ever want to do is to violate the trust that is put in us with the people that we look up to and admire.
Yeah, it's awesome and rad the people that we've gotten to be able to talk to (trust us: we were shocked when we started to book interviews, we never thought we'd get this far) but we've worked very hard for going on two years to get to the point we've gotten to. So with that in mind, I'm going to pass on the gem of advice that was given to bosslady Manda that kicked this crazy ride off:
Start a webzine. Start a project and work your freakin' tails off to get it going, get it noticed and get your name out there. Yes it's daunting, yes it can get expensive, and yes it's frustrating as crap sometimes, but if you really want to talk to these people (and by this I mean honestly talk to them about their music and thoughts, not squeal "ohmygodiloveyoumarryme!" in their faces) it's worth it to put in the hard work and the leg work to establish yourself, you just have to have the smarts to know what step comes next and how to get there.
So to you who email us for contact information, this is the last time I’m going to say it: No you may not have Josh Ramsay's phone number (or anyone elses, we just get requests for Josh's a LOT). It's disconcerting and weird that you asked, by the way.
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