Channel Z Builds a Following

Before I left for vacation last week, my band, Channel Z had another gig at the Canyon Inn. We play there about once a month, and it's always nice playing there because people are there to DANCE! Plus the waitresses take really good care of us by bringing us the yummiest pizza and making sure we are well stocked with waters and diet Cokes. (I have actually been feeling guilty, because we never tip them, even though our food is free. They're still serving us.)

Lately it seems the Canyon Inn has been very slow, in terms of turnout. Not that we're playing to an empty bar, but it's been less people than when we first started playing there. It's mostly due to some changes the bar has made in their business practices.

This was the crowd back in November 2010

But finally, we started playing to a bigger crowd again.

Here is how it looked the last Saturday we played there...
Not quite as many people as before, but we usually have less that half of that on the dance floor,
so this seemed almost like old times.

The really great thing is we are staring to connect with our audience more. We are starting to get a following. We've always had groups of people who will come to the Canyon Inn whenever we are there, or groups who will always come see us at the Filling Station.

But this time, I realized that we had people who came to see us at the Canyon Inn, specifically because they are our Facebook fans, and knew we would be there. There was a guy named George, who said he hit on Dana (a friend he was with) there at one of our first gigs. She passed  him off onto her daughter, Summer, who then introduced him to one of her friends. But now they are all still friends, and hanging out together...and it was all because of us! How awesome is that!?




This little group came to see us, because they saw on Facebook that we'd be there.
They met at one of our first gigs, and are STILL friends.

There were also people there who had seen the old members of Channel Z play at a barbecue in Layton, and had also come to see us play at Club 90. They brought a HUGE group of  15 or 20 people! I LOVE that they love us enough to keep coming back to see us, no matter WHERE we play!



This isn't everyone.
I think some of their group had already gone home, or didn't want to be in the picture.
They had A LOT more people there than this!


There was also another big group there on Friday night, that I neglected to get a picture of. But they started dancing the moment they arrived at the club. There were at least 6 or 8 of them there, and they were also our Facebook fans.

We currently have 385 Facebook fans. The Facebook fan thing perhaps seems rather arbitrary...but I think it helps us get the word out. Maybe not all 385 are coming to every gig, but I think it's really encouraging that we are getting SEVERAL Facebook fans coming to every gig.