That Booking Agent of Yours

Unknown

So, I don't even know if you guys bother to read these posts, but I think you need to know this. For the past month or so I have had to deal with your booking agent at High Road. The request was simple, just to find out if you are available and interested to perform at a college in Chicago on a specific date next year.

Although I have never had a problem with other booking agents finding this information for me, **** didn't respond to e-mails and was incredibly rude on the phone. (the sort of rude that ruins your day) After calling and e-mailing for a month, I found out that he doesn't believe that you guys would be interested, even though he admittedly had not found out if the band was available on the date I was requesting.

In event planning, a month is a long time and could have been spent seeking and booking another group to perform, even though we had our hearts set on okgo.

I know from working with many groups that often the artists have no idea how well their booking agents are working for them, so I needed to let you know that he was a terrible representative for your group and his inability to work with others may reflect badly on okgo.

I am aware that with the politics of working with a label there is often nothing you can do about who your booking agent is, so I suppose this post also serves to help me get past this terrible experience.

I wish you all the best of luck and I'm sorry I wasn't able to work with you.

rain7look

what college was it?

sawframe6

Columbia

rain7look

QUOTE (StudentVoice @ Dec 6 2005, 03:54 PM)

Columbia

I'M GOING THERE! YAY!

Maybe within the next four years because I want to see OK Go play at my college! WOO!

RejectedSponge

well that's quite lame of them.

jorge

I'll forward the message on to the boys. Feel free to drop me an email with any details you'd like them to see.


thanks,


jorge
jorge@okgo.net

rain7look

So there is a VERY GOOD CHANCE that OK Go will be playing a show at the college I'm attending next year!?

Sweet deal. I'm rather excited

formerly shades of blue

QUOTE (Jaded @ Dec 7 2005, 12:28 AM)

So there is a VERY GOOD CHANCE that OK Go will be playing a show at the college I'm attending next year!? 

Sweet deal.  I'm rather excited

i'm glad this might work out for StudentVoice (Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore is called King of All Grandpas for a reason), but i have to say i LOVE how you made this situation all about YOU.

rain7look

It is because I'm the only one here affected by this! AHH! Well except the student voice person but, I'll be the one rocking out the hardest there so . . . yeah!

banktooth12

wait.....isn't everything about jade?

formerly shades of blue

jade, you are too cute.

rain7look

I was going to quote Rudolph but I won't.

moveadvice72

Wait, which Columbia College? The one in Chicago?

formerly shades of blue

QUOTE (StudentVoice @ Dec 6 2005, 03:49 PM)

So, I don't even know if you guys bother to read these posts, but I think you need to know this.  For the past month or so I have had to deal with your booking agent at High Road.  The request was simple, just to find out if you are available and interested to perform at a college in Chicago on a specific date next year.

looks like it would be the one in chicago...

moveadvice72

I was actually thinking of applying there for a while, but then I realized that it's right in the middle of a huge city (chicago), and I thought it was somewhere rural. I hear it's a pretty good school, though.

rain7look

QUOTE (cadillac64 @ Dec 7 2005, 10:00 PM)

I was actually thinking of applying there for a while,  but then I realized that it's right in the middle of a huge city (chicago), and I thought it was somewhere rural. I hear it's a pretty good school, though.

best school as far as I'm concerned! What did you want to go there for?

moveadvice72

Musical Theatre, Psychology, Theology, and Philosophy. Oh, and French, but not as a major. Musical Theatre and Psychology are the only majors I'm interested in.

jedi_grrlie

QUOTE (Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore @ Whom I Adore,Dec 7 2005, 12:14 AM)

I'll forward the message on to the boys.  Feel free to drop me an email with any details you'd like them to see.
thanks,
Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore
Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore@okgo.net

Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, you're so awesome.

I suppose since the guys always play downtown Northampton, they don't really need to play Smith College...but it would be cool to have them in our very own campus center. Then I wouldn't need to walk the whole, oh, fifteen minutes to get to Pearl Street.

Unknown

if the boys get droped from there record label sumhow from this...im gonna get you =p

anangryfish

QUOTE (jedi_grrlie @ Dec 8 2005, 12:31 PM)

Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, you're so awesome.

I suppose since the guys always play downtown Northampton, they don't really need to play Smith College...but it would be cool to have them in our very own campus center. Then I wouldn't need to walk the whole, oh, fifteen minutes to get to Pearl Street.

hey, you go to smith? i have a couple really good friends that go there. what year are you? i think that both of them have seen ok go within the past year in northampton, so i'm sure you were at a show with them... neato.

jedi_grrlie

QUOTE (anangryfish @ Dec 8 2005, 11:39 PM)

hey, you go to smith? i have a couple really good friends that go there. what year are you? i think that both of them have seen ok go within the past year in northampton, so i'm sure you were at a show with them... neato.

Wow! I'm a sophomore, so I've seen them the two times they've played here in the past year. And you're the second person from the boards to be like, "Hey! I have friends at Smith!" RejectedSponge's friend sits next to me in Wind Ensemble- how crazy is that???? Who are your friends? Maybe I know them, too.