The lamest post I will possibly write (this week).
So I know it’s not that big a deal to the people that read this blog…or to any fans of Sure Juror in general, but we have just reached 3000 friends on myspace. Yea, it’s a small insignificant landmark to be bragging about, but still it’s nice. It only took us 2 years to get here.
The funny thing is that no one in the band thought that myspace would be worth our time when the band first got together. It all started March of 2005 when the original 5 members start practicing for WCUR’s battle of the bands. Back then we weren’t Sure Juror. We were infamously known as Jonathan Heathcote…there may have been a “band”, after Heathcote, but I really don’t remember. We enter the battle of the bands almost as a joke, saying we needed some motivation to practice. The kind DJs at WCUR were so impressed with the album, that we were bumped right into the final 16. So two weeks before the final 4 showcase, we started to practice. We managed about 6 full band practices during those two weeks. We threw in a few covers to fill out our set…and Jonathan Heathcote (soon to be Sure Juror) played our first show. The judges said we had a poor stage presence, and that our songwriting was weak. Okay!
The next morning Luke, Jonathan, and myself headed down to MACRoCk, where we got to see many amazing bands, and better still, we got the chance to sit down at a bunch of panels, hosted by a various collection of label CEO’s, Musicians, Radio DJs, Independent Promoters, etc…At this point we really had nothing going for us. New band, one show under us, and an album that wasn’t pressed…So we asked as many questions as we could…On the subject of “Networking through the World Wide Web” places like myspace and purevolume came up in discussions…and we were told not to invest a lot of our time in such things. So we didn’t. We had a myspace account, and it was a more glorified email for us then anything else….Fast forward to MACRoCk 2006
Once again we headed down to
-Sean-
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Yes, sounds it is tempting
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