{"id":1813,"date":"2007-02-21T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/02\/new_bands_web_p\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:43:19","slug":"new_bands_web_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/new_bands_web_p\/","title":{"rendered":"New Band&#8217;s Web Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be awfully difficult being an up and coming band. Sure, making the records and touring must be hard work, but maintaining your online presence is truly daunting.<br \/>\nSince taking an advantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginradio.co.uk\/music\/artists\/ghosts\/index.html?pid=ajb\">an offer<\/a> on the Virgin Radio site for a free track from the band Ghosts, I&#8217;ve ended up on their mailing list.<br \/>\nNo problem &#8211; I did choose to go on it.<br \/>\nBut at the end of the email they&#8217;ve just sent out plugging the download release of a new set of tracks and remixes, they list their online presences.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s the official website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostsmusic.com\">www.ghostsmusic.com<\/a><br \/>\nThen there&#8217;s the Myspace page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ghostsuk\">www.myspace.com\/ghostsuk<\/a><br \/>\nAnd the Bebo page: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostsuk.bebo.com\">http:\/\/ghostsuk.bebo.com<\/a><br \/>\nAnd the Youtube page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ghostsband\">www.youtube.com\/user\/ghostsband<\/a><br \/>\nAnd finally the page that says we haven&#8217;t left the underground\/alternative scene: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukundercurrent.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ukundercurrent.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also the pages where you can collect your tracks paid for by SMS: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghosts.tunetribe.com\">http:\/\/ghosts.tunetribe.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ghosts-sun.tunetribe.com\">http:\/\/ghosts-sun.tunetribe.com<\/a><br \/>\nAnd I expect there&#8217;s an unofficial fansite with forum and a Yahoo\/Google mailing list somewhere too.<br \/>\nPhew. Never mind the tour manager, it&#8217;s a full-time webmaster that you need these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be awfully difficult being an up and coming band. Sure, making the records and touring must be hard work, but maintaining your online presence is truly daunting. Since taking an advantage of an offer on the Virgin Radio site for a free track from the band Ghosts, I&#8217;ve ended up on their mailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}