"The Pocket" Venue Information for New Artists
The Pocket is purely a live music venue and has been presenting live music concerts every Friday night since late 2007. Artists play 1 hour shows with the last artist commencing at 1 AM. We have a solid regular crowd of live music fans who make the Pocket part of their Friday night. It's a friendly crowd, and often includes a good proportion of SL m
usicians. The Pocket operates as a tips only venue, with a minimum of $1,000 Linden in tips for each artist from the venue operators, plus whatever tips are contributed by audience members. To help build your audience we list your show in Second Life events; send Notecards to "Music Hall of Fame", "Second Life Music", and our own group "The Pocket Locals"; and send IM's to as many music groups as we can find! The Pocket also has a Subscribe-O-Matic with around 100 committed subscribers who receive each week's schedule. Many of our artists are very well known SL performers but we welcome new talent and have an open minded policy about musical style, genre and performance technique. We believe that SL music is about artists who make a connection with their audience to share a personal live music experience, and are committed to supporting this approach within the SL live music scene. We are happy to offer any advice or assistance we can - just ask us. Bookings and inquiries re The Pocket are managed by OhMy Kidd and Saraine Sands. Saraine and OhMy also manage the operation of the venue on Friday nights, with assistance from other members of The Pocket team when required. We are musicians ourselves and have been performing in SL for over 5 years, so we understand musician's requirements and are happy to help make your experience performing at The Pocket a happy and successful one. We book artists on a one show at a time basis, working on an ever changing monthly schedule that includes a mix of regulars, semi-regulars, and special guests. Bookings are considered confirmed when the artist agrees to a proposed time, but we can provide confirmation a few days before the event on request. The Pocket can provide a stream or we can set the land stream to the artist's server url. One of The Pocket organisers will contact the artist about 20 minutes before their scheduled time to confirm stream etc. unless we have agreed that the artist will be arriving later. If we can't contact an artist before their show we will attempt to reschedule. We understand that technology, RL and other gremlins happen, and after 5 years of dealing with all this in SL we know how to be flexible! The Pocket operates on mainland across two sims for extra audience capacity. Teleport to The Pocket at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fendahl/243/81/31
The Pocket is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/fridaynightatthepocket
