Yourself Presents

Yesterday, my band Nightmare's Riot filmed for a TV show called YOURSELF PRESENTS. It was a good experience for us, considering it will be the first first time that we will be on national TV. Although it's a low budget show, it still gets 10,000 viewers, which is still really good.

So about a year ago, my dad called this TV show and the guy in charge of the show, Howard Anshell, said that the waiting list to get filmed for the show takes about 8-9 months. After that, I completely forgot about it. Then on the day of recording at TrackStar Studios, we get a call back from him, saying that we can finally film for the show on the 18th (yesterday). So yesterday came around and we got there at about 9 am. We met the crew there (which was only about 6 people and some of them were late -___-) and we set up our equipment.

You know, for a TV show that gets 10,000 viewers that is all about playing music, you would think that they would have enough microphone stands and a PA system provided for the bands and musicians that play there, even if it is a low budget show. But all they had were a few mics and chords. We had to bring our own stands and we even had to borrow a PA system for another friend, who is in another band. The guy in charge there was even complaining that we didn't bring enough mic stands for the drums. We don't have that kind of equipment. But they should. For goodness sakes, a freakin library has a PA system and mics and mic stands, but a TV show that has indie artists play original music doesn't? -____- FAIL.

Howard, the dude in charge, was also kinda in a bad mood that morning. He was kinda being a douche bag. But the rest of the crew was pretty cool and he lightened up as soon as the other LATE crew members showed up.

And it kinda seemed like a few of them didn't know what they were doing. Apparently this show has been on like 20 or 30 years, but even the guy in charge seemed like an amateur at what he was doing. Our guitarist's dad (who was also there to help out with our sound) seemed to know more than the directors and producers of the show. And we were also in charge of our sound. So if we didn't bring the right and enough equipment, it would have been all on us. And like recording at TrackStar Studios, the of the time was just waiting around. But at least the producer at TrackStar actually knew what he was doing.

And we wanted to give a high energy performance, like what we do at live shows. But we couldn't. We had to stand there and play. When I say this show is low budget, I mean it's LOW BUDGET.

Okay, now the good stuff about the show. :P Well, we got to play more songs than we thought we would. We were ahead of schedule. We played 6 songs and 4 of them are on our EP (which will be distributed soon hopefully). The camera crew was nice. They gave us directions and helped us out. Even our guitarist's dad got to use a camera, which was pretty cool. And in a few weeks, we're gonna get a DVD of the raw footage that they took us playing the 6 songs and we'll be able to put it up on YouTube.

Oh yah, and did I mention that we'll be on the TV Show in about 8-9 months? -___- Yah, we have to wait that long until we and 10,000 other viewers actually see us on TV. That's why they're gonna give us a DVD of the raw footage so that we can put it up on YouTube and show other people what they will basically see in 8-9 months (just without cheesy special effects that look like something from the 60s).

Other than that, we're just lucky to get a chance to film for a TV show with that many viewers. Not many other bands like us can say that. Thanks to YOURSELF PRESENTS for letting us be on your show.

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