Band Update #1 - Early Days in a Metal Band in the UK

The first in a hopefully long series of videos talking about my band ‪@bringtobearband‬. Its a long and pretty much uncut video of me rambling on about our story, and in this video I go over how I joined the band, and what we’ve been through so far, as well as a little look into the future. I have gathered about a year and a half worth of stuff to talk about before this first update, so hopefully the following ones will be more frequent and shorter/more to the point 8)
My instagram: / bedroom_guitar_hero
My band: / @bringtobearband
Bandcamp: bringtobear.ba...
Gear:
Pedalboard: Pedaltrain Metro 16 with tour case
Floor Sim: Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar hardcase: Tourtech
Wireless system: Boss WL-50
Guitar: LTD 1989 M1 Candy Apple Red
EIMs: XVIVE U4 + Shure SM 215
#metalguitar #guitargear #metalband

[@DVRKSHVYVN]

I was the fly.
Man this is so cool! Hearing about the experience and the history of how you joined the band is amazing

[@BedroomGuitarHero]

Thank so much bro! Didnt expect anyone to care about this video, but cool to have for when we have 60million monthly on spotify keppa 🤣

[@bobmaerten]

Man... That was probably way too long, but very interesting anyway. May be could you use chapters to help people find out what they search for in this informations flood. ;)
Building an audience is really tough. As a small band, we are currently fighting to get gigs, so we are working on our communication. There are so many ways to achieve this, you listed many of them, it's quite hard to stay focus, while working on our songs too...
I like this band story series, may be in splitted videos to prevent too long ones. I shall do it for our band, and I would quote you and your channel for the idea of course!
Protip: don't only sell wear and listening merch. Find a local brewer and make some nice stickers to put on beers you can sell along with your current merch. A French band (Abbygail) do that, and they told me they managed to buy new amps only with beers! ;)

[@BedroomGuitarHero]

Thanks for the feedback! They will definitely be shorter in the future, I just had to cover over 1.5 years of story in one vid, and it was really just to have it in the books for a more complete story :)
It is definitely very very difficult to know what to focus on and how much, so many different streams to pursue or try and you dont know which ones will pay off, and choices have to be made with limited time…
I’ve recently watched a bunch of music management videos and they reaffirm that engagement on social media is crucial at every level, especially tiktok… I dont like social media (except yt if that counts), and neither does anyone in the band, noone wants to spend time on it, but you hear again and again how important it is, I think Ill try to push that a bit more for the band, hopefully get a trickle of following, that might start to compound over time :p
Thats an interesting story with the beer, can you please give me more detail about it, did they buy beer in bulk from a brewery and then sell it at gigs themselves?

[@bobmaerten]

@@BedroomGuitarHero I think this is the way they do it, indeed. A small margin on the brewery cost, and there are the new amps a few month later! :D

[@vdalism_x_]

Can confirm there are girls who watch your vids just staring at you and drooling 😅👍🏻

[@BedroomGuitarHero]

Ahegao drooling? 😎

[@DVRKSHVYVN]

Also the secret is out, you and Ian are long lost twins (I have proof)

[@BedroomGuitarHero]

Wait what?

[@DVRKSHVYVN]

@@BedroomGuitarHero the resemblance is uncanny

[@BedroomGuitarHero]

You mean looks wise? 😮

[@DVRKSHVYVN]

@@BedroomGuitarHero yeah!

[@BedroomGuitarHero]

@@DVRKSHVYVN You should see us side by side dude XD