Getting the most space on the marquee
One way to make sure that your band gets the most space on the
marquee at SXSW is to have a really long band name. Some bands have
done just that. Here's a histogram of the name length of the 1200 or so
artists that are appearing at SXSW:
This histogram shows that the most frequent band name length is 11 characters, (the average is 12.9 characters) with some as short as 3 characters, but there are quite a few with lengths of 30 characters or more, with one topping out at 43 characters.
Here are the bands that are getting the most space on the marquee:
- Jon Langford And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
- Johnny Goudie and The Little Champions
- Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers
- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
- Solange and the Hadley Street Dreams
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- Hermano L backed by Ranking Soldiers
- Danny And The Champions Of The World
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
- Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears
- Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies
And here the bands that are getting the least space:
- WAZ
- XYX
- TAT
- Mom
- Fun
- fiN
- CLP
- Cla
- CKY
- Blu
- Aun
Note to bands - when you are picking the name for your band, try googling for it first - it is going to be a lot easier for people to find you with a name like "Jon Langford And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts" than for a band with the name "fun"
Right, good point and good luck at the SXSW (not so much with the presentation as with the crap you will have to listen to).
I (vaguely) know someone who is in a band called Friendship, now try googling for that.
Posted by Hal on February 03, 2009 at 04:40 PM EST #