by HappinessStan » Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:48 pm
"why do people take a gamble and try people vv when their agency address works? lol"
Er, because if someone lives in the UK and the venue is also in the UK it costs about £0.80 for stamps there and back rather than about £4.50 to write to the USA?
I have an extraordinarily high success rate via venue and the responses tend to come back very quickly, just a couple of weeks ago two days from someone on tour at the moment who is notoriously impossible to get via their agent (and they wrote a note on the letter and included their own photo as well; and n the case of a American singer/legend on tour, received just yesterday, sent wednesday last week.
I've started writing to people via the theatre in my home town. There is not much to do here, but in common with a lot of very dull English towns there is an absolutely amazing theatre which attracts a fantastic variety of artistes. They even filmed an episode of Doctor Who in it). I cycle or drive past the theatre twice a day on my way to and from work, so the only outlay is for a photo (unless I pop in and pick up a flyer) and a stamp on the return envelope. I'm on friendly terms with the ladies on the stage door, who see me as a harmless eccentric, so I even get a vicarious social life out of it. There is also the discipline of having to write letters to deadlines, not to mention never running out of people to write to, and writing to people who one might never have thought of writing requests to via their agents.
There are all sorts of reasons why people do different things, and any number of ways to skin a cat.
"why do people take a gamble and try people vv when their agency address works? lol"
Er, because if someone lives in the UK and the venue is also in the UK it costs about £0.80 for stamps there and back rather than about £4.50 to write to the USA?
I have an extraordinarily high success rate via venue and the responses tend to come back very quickly, just a couple of weeks ago two days from someone on tour at the moment who is notoriously impossible to get via their agent (and they wrote a note on the letter and included their own photo as well; and n the case of a American singer/legend on tour, received just yesterday, sent wednesday last week.
I've started writing to people via the theatre in my home town. There is not much to do here, but in common with a lot of very dull English towns there is an absolutely amazing theatre which attracts a fantastic variety of artistes. They even filmed an episode of Doctor Who in it). I cycle or drive past the theatre twice a day on my way to and from work, so the only outlay is for a photo (unless I pop in and pick up a flyer) and a stamp on the return envelope. I'm on friendly terms with the ladies on the stage door, who see me as a harmless eccentric, so I even get a vicarious social life out of it. There is also the discipline of having to write letters to deadlines, not to mention never running out of people to write to, and writing to people who one might never have thought of writing requests to via their agents.
There are all sorts of reasons why people do different things, and any number of ways to skin a cat.
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