| Lets say you have some gigswap opportunites...
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Lets say you covered your home town gigging-wise. You've secured the best venues numerous times, opened for most upcoming bands, have had those bands open for you, got your cozy established fan base.
Oh and you're maybe very passionate about music and your self-esteem as a band.
You decide to gigswap with a bands from the closest biggest town at reasonable driving distance. Send some emails via myspace, post some ads on cragslist.
A couple of days after your networking effort, 2 bands are interested.
One of them is the hot, upcoming, poppy-cliche type band that you know has many connections, a moderate street team, and can get you to play in a nice club.
The other is more avant-guard, plays better music by your standards, and is clearly something different from what you usually hear. Different in a very good way. But they are less established and can't get you in the best of venues, with all the promotional and lesser fan-base implications.
Which band do you choose to play your gig with?
This is not a real life situation by the way.
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