Comments on: Jazz Musicians: 12 Quick Tips For Your Facebook Artist Page

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:07:24 +0000

Hi Matt, thank you so much for sharing this! I’ve applied several tips immediately after receiving your Email. It’s fascinating how easy these steps are, and I did not know that they exist.

Best regards,

Victoria Lye

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:01:47 +0000

In reply to John.

Hi John,

I actually have a better solution for this now. If you are still interested in solving it, drop me an email and I’ll explain….

Matt

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:36:40 +0000

In reply to John. Yeah that looks great. I checked in with Songkick who said they'd add a note to consider adding this feature at a later date...

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:30:59 +0000

In reply to John.

ha! i think i found a way – look at Bill’s page: https://www.songkick.com/artists/542693-bill-frisell, he lists the musicians he plays with as other ‘headliners’, and that’s what he gets. neat!

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:09:34 +0000

In reply to Matt Fripp. hmm, that'd be a mess... do you know of any other songkick-like website that could do it? thank you so much

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:08:27 +0000

In reply to Matt Fripp.

Thanks for such quick answer!
One more thing, how much time in advance would you post about the gig like you’re mentioning?
It’s just that sometimes I have a lot of gigs sometimes coming day after day, playing with different people (I’m a free improviser) and most of them in my hometown, seems like posting abuot them all would look messy…?
Thanks a lot mate!

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:52:02 +0000

In reply to John.

Hi John,

Unless the gig is in a city where you have a lot of Facebook followers, I personally think it is better to write a post about each individual gig, tagging the venue and linking to the ticket page, instead of making an event. It looks a lot more natural and doesn’t depend on lots of people saying that they will attend to look respectable. It is also more likely to be shared by the venue.

Of course, for a big launch gig in your home city, it might make more sense to have a group so that you can send updates and reminders to all the people that have said they’d come.

Matt

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:49:34 +0000

In reply to john. From what I know, unless you have a developer who can use the Songkick API to build something, you would need to list every project separately... If I manage to find a solution I will let you know!

By: john

john — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 07:56:01 +0000

and another thing. I’m playing gigs in many different bands and constellations, but is it possible to list all the different bands on one artist page on soundkick?

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 07:37:38 +0000

hey Matt
I’ve been thinking. What’s your view on creating events on Facebook? I mean is it good enough to make a songkick tab on my artist page (then I can’t invite people to the gigs)? And if I should be taking care of creating Facebook events, sometimes the case is that the gig is confirmed and listed on my website, but the venue owners wait till the last moment with creating the event that I could add to my page. It makes my events page incomplete. I thought of creating an event every 2 weeks that includes all the gigs I have in these 2 weeks, but I don’t know… What’s your thoughts?
And thanks for content!