In the first year of your career it’s there for two reasons, neither of which have got anything to do with you or how you think it makes you look:
1. To provide a few gobbets of information that an average hack might feel moved to put in a caption. In this respect “Princess Diana once asked me the way to Marylebone Lane” qualifies but “hard-gigging four-piece who write all their own material” certainly doesn’t. Too many bands describe what they’re doing in completely music business terms rather than in terms that provides us with common ground. “So then we did some demos and found a new studio…” Oh really? Goodness, is that the time?
2. To give some poor local radio DJ or hack who’s been put on the phone to try and write something for a gig listing something he can ask you about. To this end “so tell me about appearing on stage at Brixton Academy dressed as a white rabbit” works and “so are you really excited about your first national tour?” doesn’t.
More on David’s excellent blog here.
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