Villains of Verona?
March 8, 2008 3:22 PM Subscribe
Have you heard of the Villains of Verona? If so, what do you think or know about them?
I recently discovered that my childhood friend 's Chicago area band, "the Villians of Verona" has become fairly successful. I've sort of been in contact with her but not extensively. I've seen their myspace/purevolume/etc pages and seen some pictures/videos online. From what I can gather they're fairly successful for an ammature group, but I really don't know and I'm not really in a position to ask my friend (who I haven't really talked to in years) "so is your band a big deal? does anyone really care?" But I'm still wildly curious.
Basically I'm trying to find out if anyone's heard of them and how big of a following they have/how well they're known.
I recently discovered that my childhood friend 's Chicago area band, "the Villians of Verona" has become fairly successful. I've sort of been in contact with her but not extensively. I've seen their myspace/purevolume/etc pages and seen some pictures/videos online. From what I can gather they're fairly successful for an ammature group, but I really don't know and I'm not really in a position to ask my friend (who I haven't really talked to in years) "so is your band a big deal? does anyone really care?" But I'm still wildly curious.
Basically I'm trying to find out if anyone's heard of them and how big of a following they have/how well they're known.
This post was deleted for the following reason: probably not the best way to form the question. seems like a plug for some band -- mathowie
I'm going to respond as if you'd formed the question as "How can I tell how successful my friend's band is?"
Judging from their sites they haven't actually released anything yet, and they don't seem to be affiliated with a record label. They seem to have invested money in a web site and promo shots, and have a couple of upcoming performances in a few midwestern states, but not at major venues. They have 88k plays from 3 years on myspace (relatively high for a young regional indie act), 3900 plays from 104 listeners on last.fm (not a lot at all), 10 posts on elbo.ws and none on hype machine. So they don't seem to have much press or internet buzz, but that makes sense if they've never released anything. They may well have a decent local following, and for all I know their record will come out on a big label and they'll be all over the place soon, but it doesn't look like they've had very wide exposure yet.
posted by ludwig_van at 4:15 PM on March 8, 2008
Judging from their sites they haven't actually released anything yet, and they don't seem to be affiliated with a record label. They seem to have invested money in a web site and promo shots, and have a couple of upcoming performances in a few midwestern states, but not at major venues. They have 88k plays from 3 years on myspace (relatively high for a young regional indie act), 3900 plays from 104 listeners on last.fm (not a lot at all), 10 posts on elbo.ws and none on hype machine. So they don't seem to have much press or internet buzz, but that makes sense if they've never released anything. They may well have a decent local following, and for all I know their record will come out on a big label and they'll be all over the place soon, but it doesn't look like they've had very wide exposure yet.
posted by ludwig_van at 4:15 PM on March 8, 2008
Have you heard of the Villains of Verona?
I have now.
If so, what do you think or know about them?
I know they have a Myspace and a PureVolume page, and that they're an up and coming young band gigging in the Chicago area. I think they use viral marketing techniques to spam community websites.
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posted by ikkyu2 at 4:18 PM on March 8, 2008
I have now.
If so, what do you think or know about them?
I know they have a Myspace and a PureVolume page, and that they're an up and coming young band gigging in the Chicago area. I think they use viral marketing techniques to spam community websites.
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posted by ikkyu2 at 4:18 PM on March 8, 2008
yeah, smells like viral marketing (even if it isn't).
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