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- I play in One Night Band, a trad ska and reggae band from Montreal, Canada.
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The SKASPOTLIVE.COM Story
SKAspot LIVE is Here!
SKAspot may soon be coming to a venue near you! In it's mission to "forge a global ska community", SKAspot is introducing SKAspot LIVE, a concept that was dreamed up by Vancouver's Dan Cowan and SKAspot's creator, Andy Jeter from Florida. The duo wants to create an ongoing series of ska shows to spread SKAspot's brand of "SKAmmunism" to the masses with hopes of replicating the experience in other venues around the world. This will happen through the establishment of "Spotmasters", SKAspot LIVE's version of an event organizer. With years of experience working in the music industry as a Production, Stage and Tour Manager (among other things), Dan Cowan is the first of what we hope will be many Spotmasters. SKAspot LIVE's first event took place in Vancouver on March 28th , 2008 with a 7 band Ska A Thon.
About SKAspot
SKAspot was created in the Spring of 2007 with the intention of being the most comprehensive ska music portal on the web with links to bands around the world, listings of some of the best ska podcasts on the web, videos featuring everything from traditional ska to third wave, a vast collection of ska related information and resources, and a social network to help ska bands and fans connect.
Who Came Up With SKAspot?
SKAspot's creator, Andy Jeter, is a ska fan from a non-existent Southwest Florida scene who created the site as a means of staying connected with ska music. Originally from Gainesville, Florida, Jeter was introduced to ska through such bands as Less Than Jake, The Usuals, and Skif Dank and was very much involved in Gainesville's ska boom of the second half of the 90's, promoting local bands and putting on shows featuring acts such as The Know How and The Busdrivers. After college, Jeter moved to South Florida with his wife and began a career in education. In addition to SKAspot, he spends some of his spare time working on such projects as the SKA Toolbar and his ska podcast.
SKAspot's Evolution
Since it's inception in 2007, SKAspot has joined forces with SKA Summit to develop a ska music centered social networking experience unlike any other. SKA Summit: The SKAspot Network is a Ning based service where ska fans and bands can share music, photos, videos, blogs, and participate in ska related discussions.
SKAspot teamed up with manager/promoter and former House of Blues Sr. Production Manager (among other things), Dan Cowan to create an event called SKAspot Live. The inaugural show took take place in March 2008 in Vancouver and the SKAspot team hopes to expand this event to venues around the globe.
SKAspot's Mission
SKAspot's mission is to forge a global ska community and to promote ska music as a genre by providing valuable web-based resources to ska bands and fans, and educating the "un-initiated" about the rich history of ska music.
Calling All Future Spotmasters!
Do you have experience organizing shows? Do you want to help your local ska scene in your town? Do you want to promote the global ska scene at a venue near you? If you answered "Yes!" to all three questions, get in touch with us! We're looking to establish Spotmasters all over the world to organize SKAspot LIVE events.
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Thanks for joining up. If you like and can relate to what we are up to, you are most welcome to offer ideas, add comments, blogs, photos, whatever, lots of room to get involved, this is about all of us in the Ska universe and trying to get somethings done by working together and sharing resources and connections. It is about getting respect for Ska as a Genre and not a F*ckin sub-genre, WE are a proper genre with a most colourful history and the ability to influence almost every other kind of music. Ska is something you can actually apply to other genres to create a new sound, Other genres can't really make that claim..
Please give this some thought. You are in one of Montreal's (and Canada) best ska-ish bands and likely have relationships with various local venues and promoters, correct? What are the chances of going to one of the venues with a decent stage size and good house production and see if they want to do a Skaspot Live Montreal once every two months or so. A "Ska" branded concert series. As we a non profit group land not a financed promoter we can only offer % of the door after expenses type of deals at first. But if the shows draw well, the bands (3 per show) should do well. Headliner gets 50%, special guest gets 35% and the baby band or debut band or colaboration project that opens gets 15% of door receipts after show costs. or whatever, some sort of formula that won't put us out of business if we only draw 20 paid type of thing. You have full use of the Skaspot Live logo and I will provide you with all the graphics and digital stuff I have been using to launch the concept out here.
This then become the anchor of a skaspot live tour.
I do Vancouver and Toronto (I plan to set up a skaspot live in TO in early 2009, I already have a 2nd home in Thorn Hill and my wife is out there already. I am in the middle of a ska album project with my band with Steven Drake producing and therefore will be staying out here until it is done. By then the Vancouver skaspot live shows should be down to a routine and I can hand it off to some one locally to coordinate while I concentrate on national skaspot live tours.
Chad from Skavenjah could do Regina, I have ska friends in Winnipeg and Saskatoon and Edmonton. So it is pretty easy to see where this could go if we can get the right people involved.
If you are not interested, you may know a ska fan who has concert or event production experience. I have deep experience in that dept. and can be very helpful in guiding the process and I have documented my steps out here in producing the first skaspot live event - a 7 band ska a thon next friday with basically best of the local ska bands on board in full support of creating a new "Ska venue they can play and be featured at.
cheers,
Dan