Wednesday 10 June 2015

Band Culture - How important is it to you?

I know I normally do reviews of music and upcoming bands, but I thought I'd mix it up and do a semi serious related topic on band culture. But what is band culture? What do people see as a band culture?


In my personal opinion, I think band culture is very important. I think this because it is a way that every single fan of the band or artist can meet, chat and make new friends, all because of this new band or artist that they are all fans of.


For example: I went to see my all time favourite band (McBusted) play in Manchester, and before I go, I like to listen to the support acts so I know what kind of music they play, one of the bands that supported them this year was a band called New City Kings. I immediately fell in love with their music and during my countdown to seeing McBusted, I was constantly listening to this new band.


I looked them up on social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) and followed them on each site. After the concert, I just couldn't get enough of their music. I started chatting to fellow fans online, and made friends.


Then, New City Kings announced that they were doing their own headline tour. I just had to go. That's when the power of social media came in. I started chatting to a girl named Hettie, and she wanted to go to the gig too, but had no one to go with! So we decided to go together and spend the night in London. So through the power of band culture, I made a new friend and gig buddy!


I think if it wasn't for band culture, people wouldn't be able to share their music experience with being fans of artists and bands, its like thanks to this, it is a new way of being social and meeting new friends with the same interests.


But to some people, having this culture is extremely important. I know this because I have friends who feel they aren't confident in social situations, and this is their way of becoming more sociable and are finding friends with the same interests and perhaps making friends to go to the gigs with. I know that many new bands have such amazing band culture, because they speak to the fans, whether it be online or even after the gig itself. It just gives the fans a feeling of being involved with the bands growth and helping spread the word on how amazing and fantastic they are and that everyone should listen to them.


Katie Dyba.

Wednesday 13 May 2015

New City Kings Review: 12/05/15, Tufnell Park, Boston Music Room.

Fellow support act of McBusted, New City Kings played their last night of their headline tour last night in London, and what a night it was. 



All the hardcore fans, were right at the front, screaming the lyrics to all the songs they knew. 

Throughout the whole set, Mark Kovic (leader and frontman) was pitch perfect when singing every single song in the set. 

The two Bens (Ben Kovic (guitarist) and Ben Nyari (drums and percussion) sang their backing vocals and harmonies (harmonies when doing the stripped back acoustic tracks) were spot on and it sounded absolutely amazing together. 



The band from Essex even did some new tracks that no one has heard, which was a treat for us fans. We now are excited for them to be released to download. 

The band are also very social media and fan driven. By this I mean that they came down and met us fans and signed merchandise, took photos etc.  which many bands don't do anymore, which makes them even more amazing and different. 



For anyone who hasn't heard of this fantastic rock/pop based band, I highly recommend you give them a listen right away. They are definitely going to be the next big thing! 

Watch this space. 

Katie Dyba. 

Sunday 10 May 2015

Apologies I haven't posted in a while!

Fellow fans of my blog, 

I sincerely apologise that I haven't blogged for quite some time, I no longer have a PC at the moment so it's quite hard. I'm hoping to get one soon so I can carry on blogging about bands I have seen recently! 

Once again I really am sorry for anyone who likes reading my blog and is disappointed for not having posts to read! 

Katie Dyba.