Sceneazine.com
able for purchase (at the low, low price of whatever you
want to pay) on BandCamp (http://thehiddenagendas.
bandcamp.com). We do have a ReverbNation account:
http://www.reverbnation.com/thehiddenagendas and a
Soundcloud at http://www.soundcloud.com/thehiddenagendasband
tle. 2015 has been awesome so far for us. We have more
shows booked in the first half of the year than we did all
year in 2014. We play primarily within a 2 hour radius
of our hometown of Williamsport, PA. We haven’t had
a chance to tour outside of the region, but we do have
plans for that moving forward.
want to reach this year?
This year, we’d like to get management. Matt’s been
running all of the behind scenes stuff since we started
and he’d love some help to get the band to the next level.
In the next year or two, the band will likely be in a larger
city trying to get a bit further ahead in the business.
Speaking of social media sites, do you think that
online presence like Facebook or Twitter are important
for a band? Do you guys use any?
Facebook is extremely important for any band. In
a lot of ways, it made having an official website almost
irrelevant. We want to develop a website that will be a
hub for purchasing our music and other merch, but as
far as getting news out to people, Facebook is definitely the way to go. We have a Twitter account, but we’ve
never posted anything on it. Maybe we’re old fashioned,
but we don’t really understand how to promote music
with 140 characters. Plus there’s such an overwhelming
amount of content that trying to stand out if you’re not
already a well-known band just seems impossible.
What’s your opinion
of your music scene? And
what would you like to
see change if anything?
The
Williamsport
scene is made up of three
types of bands: cover
bands that play in bars,
original bands that play
in bars and original bands
that primarily record and
play out elsewhere. We’re
in the second group of
bands, but it’s an odd group to be a part of. Bars are used
to booking one band for three hours around here. We
don’t want to play three hour shows, because we’re high
energy, hard rock. So, we usually bring at least one band
with us. Whenever other bands around here did that, it
was expected that one band would open and play for 45
minutes. The other band would headline and play for 2
hours and keep all of the
money. We had no interest in that either, so when
we do a show, one band
goes first and the other
goes second. We split the
time and the money.
Also, we always get
asked about what songs
we cover. We do cover
songs, but we hate playing
“straight” covers, so we
don’t play anything in our
genre. We’d rather take a
song like “Just Dropped
In” by The First Edition or
“Bad Romance” by Lady
Gaga and put our spin on
it, so you can imagine the
looks we get.
There are really two
things we’d like to see
change: 1. More multiband/multi-genre shows.
2. Less politics from promoters.
If you were asked
to describe your band’s
sound or who you sound
like, what would you say?
We really don’t have
a good answer for you.
We play hard rock music
with pop song structure
and punk mentality with
a little bit of old-school
country and funk thrown
in just for fun. There isn’t
a band out there that
sounds like us. I think there are bands whose sound is
“related” to ours. Bands such as Volbeat, The Gaslight
Anthem and Murder By Death stick out as bands that
bend genres like we do, but I wouldn’t say we sound like
any of them.
Where do you see
this band in a year or
two? Do you guys, as a
band have any goals you
As a band do you guys have a favorite place to
play? What makes it your favorite?
Our favorite place to play is anywhere that books
us. We love playing
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