Tim's presentation

Tim’s Presentation was on MySpace and its use for bands, and Triple J online.

Tim talked about the recent phenomena of bands using Myspace accounts for promotion and an interactive site for fans to visit. Most bands today have a Myspace account from some of the worlds biggest to underground band and unfortunately every music ‘wanna-be’. The advantages of myspace for musical premotion is the sites popularity with young adults and its high, networking potential.
Other advantages of having a Myspace account is that it is free and does not require much web building skill and therefore is accessible to even the smallest of bands. In addition to this it can be used as an outlet for audio tracks and samples, music videos and still images.
Triple J has long been associated with finding the best of Australian musicians. Triple J unearthed is just one aspect of this and it has taken an online form. This is huge as it makes the bands more accessible to the general public. One advantage that this has for musicians is that they can get people from a long distance away listening to the music so they do not need such a large fan base in there home area which could be a regional area.