More On Emergenza’s Scam

Apparently we’re not the only band who have realized this organization is scum.

http://www.wig-out.com/&pay-to-playEMERG.htm

EMERGENZA is the brain-child of Italian Massimo Scialo (at right) and German Andrea Petricca. This is the Euro pay-to-play fest. This company has been going for about 13 years in Europe. Just recently they stretched their slimy fingers to the US. Everyone got the special myspace spam invite (we got several!) to join the fun and enter the chance to win special prizes (lots of equipment from instrument companies that are dumb enough to help sponsor this one), a trip to Germany for the last rounds and the biggest prize of all…five days on the Warped Tour (in 2007 downgraded to the RedGorilla Music Fest in Austin, TX) and six weeks of recording at Roastinghouse Studios in Malmoe, Sweden. and the chance to claim you are the BEST BAND ON THE PLANET (no fooling!). (Again, like Bodog’s recording contract, there is no mention of who owns what, for instance, the music you create. If you enjoy the recordings of other Roastinghouse bands like Cloudscape, Cosmic Ballroom, Faithful Darkness and Timeless Miracle, maybe this is for you. Otherwise Roastinghouse looks just like any other studio. Here’s an important FYI: The Sessions, the band that won the 2006 Emergenza Fest “didn’t accept this prize”).

The Emergenza “Battle of the Bands” represents themselves more as a festival but the basics are still the same. Emergenza requires an entry fee of $70, plus gives you 100 (damn!) tickets to sell. They say that you are not required to sell the tickets BUT if the votes are counted by popularity, that would be pretty much the only way you’ll get a vote. So your choice is buying into the ticket-selling idea or knowing that you’ll automatically lose going into it. It’s the Entertainment Catch-22. Emergenza is so established that all you need to do is google “Emergenza and your choice of expletives” and you’ll get the idea on all the happy bands that have tried this one. YOUR BAND’S CHANCE: 1 in 6,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergenza
http://chicagoist.com/2007/12/06/psa_for_local_b.php
http://forums.gearwire.com/band-life/1180-emergenza-schemergenza-pay-play.html

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