BandCentral is on a Digital Mission to New York City!

(We’re going to the Big Apple!)

Hello band people,

Today BandCentral is very chuffed to be able to announce our inclusion in Chinwag’s upcoming Digital Mission to New York from 15th – 20th November 2009.

Chinwag, the networking/community organisation for the UK’s digital media world, inaugurated their “Digital Mission” to the United States in 2008, and BandCentral will be among the 20 new digital companies selected to go on the 2009 Digital Mission to New York City.

The idea is to flock together a collection of the UK’s best new digital companies, and then descend on New York City en masse for a week of digital media conferences, one-on-one mentorships, and master-classes. It’s all designed to help us to bring BandCentral to the musicians of the US.

Acceptance into this program is a great endorsement for BandCentral and its pioneering service in the new music industry.  A big thank you to all of our users for all your support!

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The news of our involvement in Chinwag’s Digital Mission comes amidst a busy few months for BandCentral:

.            BandCentral is currently working towards a major upgrade to the entire application, adding many cool new features, and enhancing existing ones.

.            From Friday 6^th – Sunday 8^th November, BandCentral will be present at the Music Live exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. Self-described as ‘the UK’s biggest and best music making event’, Music Live will bring together every different components of the modern music industry, from musical instrument makers and record stores, to tertiary institutions and web applications.

.            From 24^th – 27^th January 2010, BandCentral will be involved with the MIDEM world music festival/forum in Cannes, France. This will be an excellent opportunity for us to share BandCentral with a global audience.

.            In March next year, we are pleased to announce our involvement in 2010’s SxSW Festival in Austin, Texas, USA. Arguably the biggest festival in the world, SxSW is renowned as a celebration of new popular music, and new music technologies. Stay tuned for further information of our involvement in the coming months.

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Visit BandCentral here, see a tour here, and follow us or say hello @BandCentral.

BandCentral is coming to Music Live

Hello All,

Just a quick note to let you know that next month BandCentral will be heading to Birmingham and the NEC for Music Live, “The UK’s Biggest and Best Music Making Event”.

The exhibition runs from Friday 6^th – Sunday 8^th November, and will be the day to Hellfire Festival’s night.

The Music Live exhibitor list incorporates all corners of the modern music industry, from instrument manufacturers and music training institutes, to digital distributers and band manager web apps!

BandCentral staff, including founder Wil Padley, will be on hand to talk shop about BandCentral and chinwag generally about the current state of the digital music industry, so if you’re planning on coming to Music Live, be sure to drop in and say hello.

Give us a shout at hello@bandcentral.com or @BandCentral.

Kind regards,

BandCentral HQ.

Syncing MySpace, Twitter and Facebook data with BandCentral

Hello again, band people.

We know from personal experience that being in a band can involve a lot of hard work – the incremental slog of rehearsals, the logistical puzzle of organising a tour, the endless task of updating you social network pages in order to keep your fans informed and interested in your band. If you are running the show yourselves, there is a risk that the administrative side can sink the creative venture.

Fortunately BandCentral’s job is to condense the work that goes on behind the scenes, streamline the self-management process and remove the headache from the everyday admin tasks. After all, bands want to concentrate on what they do best – making music!

Any band who’s worth their salt will already have a presence on the social network’s du jour: MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. And rightly so. Used creatively you have a lot to gain by using these free ‘connect with fan’ services. But, as you may have discovered, it can be a lot of work to actually do social networking well. With your information scattered across multiple sites on the web, lots of bands fall into the trap of neglecting one site or another, or letting outdated information linger long after your fans have gotten out of the habit of checking for updates.

To help you avoid these pit-falls, BandCentral’s dev team have come up with a neat little tool which allows you to publish status updates directly from your BandCentral HUB to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with just one click, thus centralising and minimising your efforts.

This tool also makes it possible for you to create a Facebook event from within your BandCentral Band HUB and publish gig info directly onto your Facebook Band Page and MySpace Event Calendar which means that you can avoid the needless repetition of entering gig info across your many sites. Phew!

This post, the second in our series of feature focuses, is going to be dedicated to showing you how to sync your Band HUB with your Band’s social network sites. We’ll show you how to create a gig with the Gig Manager and publish the information directly to your band’s Facebook and MySpace pages in the next installment!

Already have a BandCentral account? Read on for tips on how to get the most out of your social networking tools…

SOCIAL NETWORK SYNCHRONISATION – THE NUTS AND BOLTS

• When you log-in to your BandCentral HUB, you will see an area called ‘Status Updates’ on the left-hand side of your dashboard. Follow the link to begin the synchronisation process between your Band HUB and your social network sites.

• Tip: You can also navigate to the social network page by clicking the ‘Band HUB Settings’ link on the top right-hand corner of the page.

• Select the tab “Social network settings” – the second one along – and it will lead you to this page:

• We’ll start with Twitter, which is the most straightforward.

• First: Click Sync your Twitter account




• You will navigate away from your Band HUB when you do this, but don’t worry, you will be sent back in just a moment.

• Enter your Twitter log-in details and click “Allow”. That’s it!

• Tip: make things that bit easier while you’re going through these steps by already signing into your Band’s Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts in the same browser.

• If you are already signed into your Twitter account, then Twitter will acknowledge that. It looks like this:

• Once you click “Allow“, Twitter works for a moment to synchronise with your Band HUB. You will then be automatically returned to the Social network settings page of your BandCentral Band HUB. Here you can see that you have been synced with Twitter:

• Tip: If one of your bandmates does a Noel Gallagher then you may need to start up a new social network site. You can change/re-sync to a new social network account at any time, although you can only sync with one account at a time.

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• Next comes MySpace – which has a two-part process.
• First: Click on “Sync your MySpace” account.

• You will again be re-directed from the Band HUB to MySpace, and asked to enter in your MySpace account details.

• If you are already logged into MySpace it will look like this:

• Again, as with Twitter, MySpace will work for a moment, and then redirect you back to your Band HUB, where you will see confirmation:

• Note: This action has synchronised your Band HUB with your MySpace status updates only. Please ensure that you follow this final step to sync up with the MySpace Gig Event…

• Finally – In order for your Band HUB to be able to sync your gig data to MySpace, you will need to enter your login details in the MySpace Settings field and click “Save MySpace details”.

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• Next: Facebook. The Facebook process is a little more drawn out, as there are a few steps of consent required by Facebook. We’ve made it as quick and easy as possible though so don’t despair – it is totally worth it!!

• First: Click on “Sync your Facebook Band Page”.

• Unlike with MySpace and Twitter, Facebook opens up in a new window.

• Log-in to Facebook here, to be taken onto the step-by-step process.

• If you’re already logged in to Facebook it will look like this:

• Synchronising your Band HUB Facebook requires a few more steps that Twitter and MySpace. To get you through we’ve developed a simple and thorough step-by-step process. In the interests of keeping this tutorial short, I won’t re-paste each step here, but the instructions look like this:

• At the end of these steps, you will be re-directed to your BandCentral Band HUB. And you will see this:

• You should now have a pretty ‘social network settings’ page that looks like this:

• Now you’re ready to get in touch with your fans from one centralised place!

• At the Dashboard you will see a box ready for multiple status updates. Enter in a pithy observation, a sentimental quote, your favourite song lyric or the details about your next gig, and marvel as they fly out into your major social network pages:

• Tip: You can check the box against which site you would like to publish to. Perhaps you will use Twitter ten times a day, but reserve MySpace and Facebook status updates for once-a-week band news.

• You will be notified when the updates have gone through successfully.

• “Gosh! It really works!”

Twitter:

MySpace:

And Facebook:

Coming up next…

…we take you through creating a gig with the BandCentral Gig Manager and synchronising it with your Facebook and MySpace Gig Event listings. Using the Gig Manager to send your gigs across to your online social network presence, means that you only have to input the data once. There’s no duplication of task, which means no wrong dates or missing ‘0’s when transferring the information.

But, we did say many-faceted, so that’s another story for another post.

We sign out with a nod to some excellent words of advice from the Interweb, post-scripted below!

Kind regards, good friends.

B.C. Man Friday.

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THOUGHTS, QUOTES AND FURTHER READING on harnessing the power of Social Networks for bands:

In our day-to-day at the BandCentral HQ we continually come across interesting news articles and expert-opinion pieces about the new music industry and what it takes to be in a band in 2009. There has been plenty of talk recently about how bands can harness the power of social networks and use them to their advantage. In the interest of spreading the knowledge and continuing the conversation, here are some of the most interesting bits…

The Indie Digest argues that in this age the power balance in the band-fan relationship has shifted firmly in favour of the fan, and, as such, band members should offer up a lot more of themselves as greater incentive for a fan’s attention.

Meanwhile, Heather McDonald has some good advice about when bands should draw a line at over-sharing:

“Let your fans in on the behind the scenes news that concerns your music. Tell them about being in the studio. Let them know you’re booking some dates. Keep them informed about how the new merch design process is coming. Tell them your plane to your next show has been delayed. Those are all things that are relevant to the relationship you’re trying to foster with your fans, and it’s exciting for them to be in on these things in real time in a way they haven’t been able to before. As for the live streaming of your life and such, leave a little something to the imagination. This is one instance where that old entertainment adage rings true: always leave them wanting more.”

Some pearls of wisdom courtesy of Michael Masnick at TechDirt’s ongoing analysis of Trent Reznor’s engagement with fans:

“…due to the way the industry is these days, the musician does need to be somewhat involved. You cannot connect with fans if you’re in seclusion. If you don’t want to make the effort to connect with fans, then that’s fine: you won’t have that many fans. It’s a choice you make.

“That said, there are tremendous opportunities allowed by new technologies, new communities and new methods of communicating today…. Those who look at the past and complain about what’s been lost need to turn around and look at the vast open fields of opportunity in front of them.”

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An extract from Trent Reznor’s widely re-posted blogging advice for new bands:

“Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace – it’s dying and reads as cheap / generic. Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don’t autoplay). Constantly update your site with content – pictures, blogs, whatever. Give people a reason to return to your site all the time. Put up a bulletin board and start a community. Engage your fans (with caution!) Make cheap videos. Film yourself talking. Play shows. Make interesting things. Get a Twitter account. Be interesting. Be real. Submit your music to blogs that may be interested. NEVER CHASE TRENDS. Utilize the multitude of tools available to you for very little cost of any – Flickr / YouTube / Vimeo / SoundCloud / Twitter etc.”

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And finally, an informative and pretty graphic depicting fan loyalty. Posted as part of The Indie Digest’s Long Tail of Fans series:

Managing your fans online with BandCentral

Hello band people!

BandCentral, your trusty, handsome, hard-working online band manager, is a many-faceted creature capable of many very cool things.

Over the next few weeks we will be posting a series taking a closer look at exactly how a BandCentral Band HUB can help your band to get its act together.

Today we begin by showing you how BandCentral can help you build an effective fan database and get you talking to new and loyal fans with a walk-through of one of our more out-going features, the Band Promotion Manager!

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It’s difficult to overstate the importance of maintaining a relationship with your fans. If you want people to buy your music, come to your shows and quote your lyrics on their Facebook status updates, you’re going to have to be prepared to work for their affections. Like a friendship, if you neglect a fan they’ll forget about you, swamp them and they’ll avoid your phone calls, but respect them and they’ll never forget you.

BandCentral’s Band Promotion Manager has a bunch of features to help your band collect fans and keep them up-to-date with all of the cool things you’re doing.

Let’s take a closer look …

1) The Fan Database Manager
Keep a track of all of your fans in one central place online. Create a fan database, tend to it and watch it grow.

2) The Fan Collector Widget!
Use this fully customisable web widget to collect fans from any webpage and deposit them directly into your Band HUB fan database.

BandCentral's Fan Collector Widget

3) Send Email/SMS to Fans direct from your HUB
Got an important gig? Need to fill the venue with fans at short notice? Want to send weekly newsletters to your loyal fans? Send a city targeted SMS or Email alert with our ‘Fan Alert’ feature.

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Keeping track of your fans with the Fan Database Manager.

Every band has a fan list kicking around somewhere, whether it’s an excel spreadsheet, a mash-up of your different band members’ Facebook friends, or a beer-marinated contact form from a festival you played the summer before last. If you can get it all together in one place then you’ve got a very valuable asset for your band.

We’ve made it very easy to build and manage a fan database with the BandCentral Band HUB; you can upload existing fans, create customisable mailing lists for gathering fan info at gigs or just sit back and let our fan collector widget do the hard work for you. The Fan Snapshot on your dashboard gives you an at a glance list of Confirmed, Unconfirmed, and Unsubscribed Fans plus keeps a tally of new fans each day so you always have a full picture of how your fan database is growing and exactly who you are talking to.

When a new fan is added to your Band HUB, they are automatically sent an email asking for confirmation that they would like to join your mailing list. While you’re waiting for an answer they will be listed as an Unconfirmed Fan. When a fan consents to being added to your list their listing will be moved to Confirmed Fans, and you can start contacting them. If a fan declines your invitation their listing will be moved to Unsubscribed/Removed Fans and you will be unable to contact them. The logic is that if someone doesn’t want to be on your contact list, it’s probably best for both of you that they don’t keep receiving unwanted alerts. And by keeping the list clean, you can be certain that you are communicating with an interested audience, which is hugely powerful

Already have a BandCentral Band HUB? Here are the nuts-and-bolts for creating a fan database within your HUB:

Adding individual fans:

- Click on the Add a fan tab on the right hand column.
- This will open up a contact form where you can enter in First Name, Last Name, Mobile, Email, Street, City, Country and Postcode.

o Tip: Fill in as many fields as possible here. Although you’re probably not planning on phoning your fan, or dropping by for a cuppa, any extra information helps when you want to get in touch with your fans later on.

- Once the details are entered, click Save Fans.

o Tip: When you create a gig on BandCentral, don’t forget to print out a mailing list for the show. The professional looking template will help you collect fan details in a legible manner and crucially save you from losing out on potential fans!

Adding multiple fans:

Two lightning-fast ways to upload multiple fans..

Option A: Simply paste in your fans’ raw email addresses and click Import these emails. That’s it.

Option B: Simply upload your CSV file and marvel as the contact details convert into neat individual fan listings.

o Tip: Get started by exporting your webmail fan contact lists into a CSV format. Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail all make this very easy.

o Help! If you are having trouble converting an existing Excel file into the CSV format, we’ve posted a link to a sample file for you to download. It’s on the Add multiple fans page, just beneath the Option B heading.

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Deploying the BandCentral Fan Collector Widget.

Embedding the BandCentral Fan Collector Widget into your band’s website, Myspace and Facebook pages is a great way to grow your fan base. When a fan enters their contact details into the widget they are imported directly into your Fan Database. If posted in the right places, this low-maintenance, conscientious gadget can make your band a lot of new friends.

Already have a BandCentral Band HUB? Here are the nuts-and-bolts for how to deploy your customisable fan collector widgets:

- Copy the embedding code by clicking on the Copy to clipboard button.
- Then follow the simple instructions for embedding the widget into your band’s website, Myspace and Facebook pages. It’s all very easy.

o Tip: Customise the Fan Collector Widget to suit the feel of your band’s sites by adjusting the colour and the corner radius.
o Tip: You can have as many of these guys working for you at once. Ask your friends to embed this widget onto their own pages. Ask your most loyal fans to post one on their blogs in return for a free gig ticket, merchandise or good karma. Do this by pasting the embedding code and instructions into an email alert.

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Now you have a well-tended list of loyal fans – It’s time to get in touch!

As we mentioned earlier, keeping in touch with your fans is an essential part of being in a band. Collette Weintraub from Deep Dive Marketing had two blog posts last month on Imogen Heap’s impressive use of the Internet to reach out to fans. Weintraub points out that if a fan feels that they have your respect “…they’ll be your eyes and ears and inform you about things in the periphery of your career you otherwise may not have known; they’ll tell their friends to buy your music; they’ll buy your music as a gift for their friends; they’ll be at your shows; they’ll offer their talents (design, tech support, photography, etc) to help you succeed….” It’s a compelling argument.
BandCentral’s Send Email/SMS alert features allow you to contact your fans direct from your BandCentral Hub. Why not try:

- Sending out a weekly newsletter:

- Sending a private message to a special fan:

- Sending out a last minute SMS alert to drum up support for tonight’s gig:

- Sending a promo code to fans for half-price entry to your gigs:

The possibilities are endless!

Already have a BandCentral Band HUB? Here are the nuts-and-bolts:

- From the Send Email/SMS to Fans tab compose your email and/or SMS alert.
- Once you are happy with the text, choose which fans you’d like to contact.

o Tip: Target fans by location so that you can make sure you reach those fans most interested in specific gigs. This feature is particularly useful if you’re touring or have an out of town gig.

- Click Preview this message, review what you’re about to send, and click Send this Fan Message.

o Tip: Save mail-out templates or old newsletters straight to your Band HUB for future use.
o Tip: Use the SMS feature to drum up support before a gig. It’s much quicker than using your own mobile phone and it’s also much more effective than broadcasting gig info via facebook or MySpace alone.

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That’s all for now – and I didn’t even get to our mind-blowing social-networking synching… next post coming very soon!

Kind regards, good friends,

B.C. Man Friday

BandCentral Founder interviewed by Musicko

Below is an excerpt from a recent inteview in which BandCentral Founder, Wil Padley discusses the origins of BandCentral, the digital music revolution and watermelons with Emilio Perez from Musicko… To read the full interview – check out the Musicko blog here!

PART I: THE START-UP

EP: Tell us a little about your startup. How was it conceived? What are its most distinctive features in your opinion?

WP: BandCentral is a collaboration and management tool for bands. It gives you your very own online ‘Band HUB’, which enables you to manage everything associated with a hard working band (gigs, promotion, files and finances etc..) from one instantly accessible place.

BandCentral was born out of a collision between a career in digital media and a very disorganised band! Trying to communicate and organise my band whilst keeping up the day job became very difficult. We had heaps of enthusiasm but in absence of full-time management I realised that we needed a better way to get organised enough to be able to compete in today’s music industry. So, I took matters in to my own hands and built BandCentral for our band to use. Over the past 15 months, with some serious hard work, it has evolved into a fully-fledged online band manager with a fast growing global user base of independent artists.

BandCentral’s most distinctive features include; a central message board which is all about collaboration and keeping everyone up-to-date and organised, a shared band calendar and task manager with fully integrated Email & SMS alerts, a gigs, set-list and guestlist manager – vital for any giging band, a finance manager to log all your incomings and out-goings, a central file repository to host all your important files, contracts, artwork etc and some pretty awesome band promotion tools. BandCentral also gives you the ability to sync all your info to MySpace, Twitter and Facebook with one click – this is really useful as it saves you a lot time avoiding needless repetition of info across the web. The fan CRM tools are also hugely useful in helping bands nurture and grow your fanbase.

BandCentral’s features are constantly evolving and the app relies hugely on collaborative feedback from our users to ensure that we are building the most comprehensive online band manager possible. We’re working on BandCentral version 2 right now, which will be ready for release in the autumn. It’s a serious upgrade and the team and I are really excited about it!

EP: What was the original launch date?

WP: Beta launch was February 2009, the development has been in the pipeline since June 2008.

EP: What has been the response so far? In which countries has it been more successful?

WP: The response has exceeded all my expectations. Bands have been hugely enthusiastic about the application. It’s been very gratifying to receive feedback from our users and we were really proud to be featured by social media bible Mashable in their Spark of Genius series. Being heralded as the ‘Basecamp for bands’ is incredibly flattering!

As for the reach, being a UK-based start-up, that becomes our natural base, but we’re also seeing a load of traffic from the US, Australia, Canada, South America and mainland Europe.

EP: What features can we expect to see implemented in future revisions?

WP: It’s our aim to provide all the tools a band needs to manage themselves and we have a lot of fantastic new features set for release this autumn.

EP: There is a certain tendency to demonize the Internet in the music industry. I think it is all a matter of perspective – it all depends on the uses it is put to. What is your opinion? In which areas has the Internet left an unquestionably positive mark?

WP: The music industry has been flipped on its head in the past decade. The dawn of the digital age hit the industry giants hard, but conversely, given a lot of power to the artist, suddenly making it economically viable for bands to record and distribute their music themselves. The emergence and enormous popularity of social networking sites such as MySpace, online sales systems such as Amazon and iTunes and taste and playlist aggregators such as Lastfm and Spotify mean that is now possible for even the smallest garage band from the Scottish highlands to reach fans from Brazil to China. I can only see that as a positive.

Essentially, if you want to make a career out of your band and are prepared to do the groundwork yourself – getting gigs, growing your fanbase, distributing and promoting your music – then there is nothing holding you back. You just need to write great music, get organised, harness the best of what the web can offer you and use it to get out there and get noticed. BandCentral fills a vital role in the new ‘DIY’ paradigm giving bands all the tools they need to streamline the self-management process and join the music revolution!

EP: What advice could you give to anybody who is launching a music-related startup in the future? What are the obvious mistakes that should be avoided?

WP: If you’ve got a brilliant idea, then there’s nothing stopping you but a big whack of hard work and dedication. The online music industry is at a really exciting point at the moment, too, people are searching for new solutions all the time. It can be very trying working on a start-up, in a lot of ways you’re working without precedent. You just have to believe that your idea is worthwhile, and that enough people are going to say ‘awesome, this is what I’ve been looking for’.

PART II: MUSIC & YOU

EP: When did you become interested in music? What was the first album or single you ever purchased?

I’ve always been into music and was a total grunge kid when I was at school, although the very first album I bought was ‘Appetite for destruction’ by Guns and Roses back in 1988.

EP: Are you in a band yourself, or have you been in a band in the past? Is there a file on YouTube or elsewhere we could watch?

I’ve played in bands since school and now play Bass with London based The Domino State.
You can check out our MySpace here: www.myspace.com/thedominostate
Or take a look at our latest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnxI2qHXyN0

EP: Favorite artists?

WP: I’m most influenced by Interpol, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ride & MBV.
On my iPod at the moment are a band called The Boxer Rebellion and the awesome White Lies.

EP: Is there a song that – to you – captures the spirit of your startup and what you have set out to do? What would it be?

WP: Watermelon by The Boxer Rebellion, starts out slowly with intrigue and builds up to an incredible screaming chorus ☺

EP: Thank you very much for your time, Wil.

Wil Padley - BandCentral Founder

BandCentral @ Summer Sundae Festival Highlights

A fantastic time was had by all at the 9th annual Summer Sundae festival! The SSW team delivered an wonderful and eclectic mix of live bands of all styles and genres over six stages. The weekend showcased the best in emerging and local talent along with well known established acts, such as Idelwild, the Charletons and Bon Iver. Check out BandCentral’s highlights here on Flickr:
http://tiny.cc/ssw_2009

We look forward to supporting SSW’s 10th anniversary in 2010!

BCHQ

Win Summer Sundae Tickets with BandCentral!

We have 10 awesome weekend camping tickets to give away for the fantastic UK Summer Sundae Weekender festival this August 14-16th.

And for 20 lucky runner-ups, we’re also giving away 6 months’ free PRO BandCentral account access!

We are sponsoring the midlands finest music festival which hosts a classic mix of established bands and fresh new live acts. Catch your favourite bands like The Charletons, The Zutons, The Mysetery Jets, Noisettes, Bon Iver and Idlewild, and discover loads of fantastic up-and-coming artists like The Domino State, Dumbfound and Future of the Left.

All bands signing up for a free BandCentral account using the promo code ‘SSW09’ will be entered into a prize draw.

The first 5 bands, drawn at random, will each win a pair of weekend camping tickets for the Summer Sundae Weekender 2009.

20 runner-ups, will receive 6 months’ free PRO BandCentral account access giving you your very own online ‘Band HUB’, from which to manage everything associated with your band… communication, upcoming gigs, band diary, files, fans, money, promotion on social networks + loads more.. FREE for 6 months!

How to enter:
it’s very simple…

1. Go to www.bandcentral.com/signup
2. Sign-up for a FREE BandCentral account entering the promo code ‘SSW09’ into the ‘Referrer’ field.
3. Cross your fingers and get organised with your brand new BandCentral HUB.
The competition closes Friday 31st July so enter NOW!!!
Find out more over at http://bandcentral.com/competition.html

The competition is strictly for over 16’s – including your Summer Sundae Weekender guest. You may be asked for proof of age on confirmation of the prize. To view full terms and conditions please visit http://bandcentral.com/competition.html.

For the full line up click here

Good Luck!

Don’t forget – the competition closes Friday 31st July so enter NOW!!!

BC HQ

www.bandcentral.com

Summer Sundae Weekender 2009 Line-up

BandCentral = genius. It’s official!

BandCentral was very proud to be Mashable’s Spark of Genius startup of the day on weds!

Check out the article here: http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/bandcentral/

We were also reviewed by killerstartups today so please show your support and go vote for us!!
Just follow this link and hit the ‘vote’ icon: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/bandcentral

Cheers,

BC HQ

www.bandcentral.com

Bandcentral now with ical + google calendar sync

Many of our users have been requesting this.. so here it is! You can now sync your iCal and googleCal with your BandCentral account.

Say goodbye to repetition and split diaries.. just hit ’sync calendar to iCal/ googlCal’ within your calendar view and use the link generated to subscribe your calendar!

Keep the feedback coming!

BC HQ

www.bandcentral.com

Sync your Bands events with iCal and Google Calendars

BandCentral’s Online Band Manager set to Revloutionise the way that Unsigned Bands Communicate, get Organised and Promote Themselves Online.

Check out the press release announcing our full launch here:

http://tiny.cc/bandcentral

BCHQ

www.bandcentral.com