If It's Too Good To Be True...

Recently, while browsing Facebook, I came across a post in one of the groups. The gentleman, as you can see below, is looking for supports for a supposedly really big (possibly massive, even!) international act. I've seen a lot of people jump onto the post offering their band up as support, no questions asked. It all seems very suspect to me.

Fortunately, I wasn't only the only one to notice several things wrong. No location or genre mentioned. Now, last time I checked, saying either of things wouldn't give away the supposedly big band's name. As I mentioned, there's been a lot of bands jumping on the post, offering themselves up as support - bands from the folky punk side of the spectrum to the heavier, grittier metal side of the spectrum.

It's not wrong that these bands are offering themselves up as support but some curiosity wouldn't go amiss. Some people had asked for details and what not, such as genre and date and location, but the gentleman who is seeking a support this "big international act" responded with the following:

Still smells fishy to me. I can understand him making a post, asking for supports, if the date was confirmed. I've done it before when I've had some well known names in the past, such as Hecate Enthroned but without a date confirmed, despite the band in question allegedly being on contract, this really comes across as a poor attempt at building up a database of bands - Well, I say poor but it certainly garnered him a lot of interest.

After searching for the gentleman in Google, it appears that he mostly deals with DJ club nights and the like. No issues here about that if he's wanting to work with bands but he could offer up a few more details to avoid coming across as "not so legit" or whatever the cool kids say these days.

All I can say is that if you're a band and you see something like that and it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Details are important before jumping onto something like this.