Form

Yesterday I put out a sign-up form for new-to-us local experimental musicians for Memphis Concrète shows in the future (this is the link to the form, not that there's anyone reading this it would apply to!), hoping to build up the pool (covid had things kinda disconnected and with friends moving away and some just kinda stopping playing out with life happening, it feels like it's shrunk a little bit). Also, was hoping to find some new non-dude musicians. It did get a pretty big response. Its spread on social media was bigger than just about anything else I've put out there. And so far it has gotten a pretty good number of people filling it out. A few were people who have already played shows with us (I guess my language for that part of it was ambiguous, I was thinking it but I don't think I explicitly stated that this was for people who hadn't played with us before, because if you had then uh, I already know about ya! but I just said something like "wanting to play future shows with us" so I can see where the confusion would be, and I guess for some where it'd been a while, it's good to have a reminder). A few were people from other parts of the country that would just like to play here sometime (which is fine, but this was more just to have a reference for people on-hand right here in town). And absolutely zero so far have been from non-dudes (well, except Emily but she's also a case of someone who had already played a show with us before so that's not someone new). But that's fine. I haven't had time yet to really go through them all. I kinda skimmed a few early on. Some were good and some didn't seem to have a remote semblance to anything "experimental" (sure, I did say I don't even know what experimental means in the post and it means different things to different people and if you think you're experimental then you probably are (but, this "probably" is pretty key...also, the ones that are straight up mainstream pop I don't think they actually think they're experimental, they're just the kind of people who will submit to anything, maybe? I don't know! I'll see when I give everything a closer listen. I don't think there was a lot of that anyway, but it is kinda weird)). I may end up setting up a show just for some of the applicants, a kind of "new artists" showcase or something. I'll give it a couple days to see if any more trickle in and then maybe figure something out.