*****The Charter You MUST Read Before Posting [ESPECIALLY promoters]*****

miju

I've decided to tidy up / slightly rewrite the charter, if you've any suggestions to add to this charter please PM myself or Papa Smut

Forum Guidelines

Some of the topics that would be considered on topic are:

• musicians seeking other musicians (for bands / jamming etc, please include the following in your post / reply - location, influences, style of play, what kind of musician you are OR are looking for and any links you may have to samples of your music (when doing so please bear in mind the MP3 rule below)
• recording / recording methods
• song writing (structure, methods etc)
• the independent music industry

Thread titles/topics such as:

• my bands gig in TBMC this week, next week or any other week
• such and such's new album
• worlds best guitarist

Belong in the Music, Band Promotion, Gigs & Events forums and will be either moved there or deleted.


Forum Rules

• PROMOTERS if you're advertising for bands please go here and a have good read. If you don't adhere to this, you will receive a warning and then a banning.
• NO MUSIC EQUIPMENT FOR SALE POSTS do it once you'll be warned, twice and yer banned.
• NO EXCESSIVE BUMPING OF THREADS at least wait a day or so before bumping a thread, if you get excessive with your bumping you'll get a temp banning.
• NO LINKING/REQUESTING LINKS TO MP3s or any other material that you don't own the copyright to, doing so will earn you a permanent holiday (for more information on copyrighting your material see the resources thread)
• NO FLAMING other users, no racism, no sexism, no your band/music is rubbish-ism, banning is guaranteed.
• NO COMMERCIAL ADVERTS of any kind, they'll be deleted post haste and a banning wont be far behind either
• NO OFF TOPIC POSTS as in the guidelines above please post in the correct forum
• NO SPAMMING anyone who repeatedly posts the same/similar topics will have all their threads deleted and get a temp banning to boot
• NO THREAD SPOILING if you don't have an interest in a band/musicians or dont like their influences don't post in it as it just takes away from the thread, do it 3 times and you're banned
• NO DUPLICATE THREADS If you need something changed in an existing thread that you have created and you cannot do it yourself, please contact one of the forum moderators and they will sort it out for you. Duplicate threads will be deleted.
• DON'T PUBLISH PHONE NUMBERS that includes your own. This is basically a security thing. Put your email address up or PM.
• DON'T ask for links to tab sites unless you REALLY need them, remember Google is your best friend.
• DON'T BUMP OLD THREADS. If you're responding to an ad please check the date of the last post. If it's back in 2006 then please just create a new thread.

The bands/musicians forum welcomes all information regarding upcoming events and slots needed. We are pleased that organisers and other musically minded members see Boards.ie as an important forum to communicate musical events.

However, Boards.ie has a responsibility to its members and cannot be seen to endorse any event that could potentially cause any issue. Therefore, the following criteria must be met* within the body of your post otherwise your thread will be closed and removed. Repeated offence will lead to a banning.

1. Who is running the event (organisation, society, band etc.)
2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.)
3. Date and Location of event
4. How many acts will be on on a night
5. Any prerequisites (selling 30+ tickets etc.)
6. Is it under/over 18's
7. Type of night (Acoustic, rock etc.)
8. Cost of admission
9 Will a fee be paid to the bands

This list may seem long but if you haven't got the answers then there is a question mark over the professionalism of your event.

As a bynote, I organise events throughout Dublin and sometimes not all the information can be brought to the table at an early stage, however, should this arise please pm Miju or myself.

Papa Dolla


* This is NOT optional and they are to be numbered 1-9 in your post

Malice

For consistency with the rest of the Boards.ie site where opportunistic advertising is not allowed, we will be enforcing the following rules in this forum from now on:
- Studios may not start a thread advertising their services.
- Studios may contact one of the moderators to have their details added to the Resources thread.
- Studios may respond to a genuine request about rates or opening times etc.

For example, a general thread about studios in Dublin would mean that an account known to be associated with a studio should not respond but a thread requesting information about the specific studio would mean that an account known to be associated with a studio should respond.

If anyone has any questions on this, feel free to contact me or one of the other moderators.