Music Blog Review

The idea was to simply produce a music blog aimed at a niche market of underground UK bands as well as some from America. The reason I chose to be so narrow with my subject is because I have a much wider knowledge of this certain scene as I used to be in a band that were apart of the same community.

Not only did the knowledge of the scene help me but also the contacts I had acquired over the last five years have helped me gain interviews with band members very quickly.
However, what I was not expecting was to be...not let down, but rather to become a victim of other people’s busy schedules. For example, I had an interview arranged with a musician and told him that I had to have the interview before Thursday. As Wednesday night rolled to an end, my heart sank and a quick profile on another band had to be conceived, constructed and published in a matter of an hour or so.

However, the interviews I did end up doing had a theme of using song titles as the premise of a question. Slightly taken from The Guardian but instead only using the bands song titles with the idea of hyper-linking them to YouTube videos of the songs.

The idea behind this is that the reader can get to see live performances and music videos using YouTube without cluttering the space of the blog. The problem I found with the interviews is that I wanted to keep the posts quite short as to not demand so much time from the readers, allowing the bands Myspace and YouTube to allow the readers to gain their own opinion.

I do feel that the interviews gave my blog instant credibility within the niche market I was aiming at which can be an important thing in a scene of stubborn, elitist music snobs. Just kidding guys.