Reply To: How do you find new bands (specifically nerdy ones)?
I’m REALLY late to the JoCo party. Similar to @Oboewan, I found Paul & Storm first via their appearances on The Bob & Tom Show (syndicated morning radio show based at Q95 in Indianapolis) back in the da Vinci’s Notebook days, and continued on through their duo status.
Then I heard about w00tstock through Adam Savage on Twitter. Upon learning that Adam, Wil Wheaton, *and* Paul & Storm were partners in this stuff? Geek fanboy overload!
Found YouTube videos of prior w00tstocks. Discovered Molly Lewis. Marian Call (side note: Marian was my gateway to Zoe Keating and 1/3 the gateway to Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman being a 2nd third, and Zoe being the 3rd third, and it’s the creative geekery Circle of Life. Or possibly we’re heading to a creative geekery quantum singularity. But I digress), Mike Phirman, The Doubleclicks, Felicia Day, Stepto, etc. that way.
And one Jonathan Coulton. Which lead to also learning about JCCC1 too late to join the fun, but a dogged determination to join up for JCCC2 (and now 3). Which lead to watching all the videos of JCCC1 and getting involved in the forums here and learning about more performers.
If I was to try to diagram all this, it would end up such an indecipherable mess due to all the cross-connections.
Which is to say, quite probably the best way to build that audience — and you’ll need to build it, it won’t just spring magically into existence — is just to get it out there, and court those connections. It’ll take time, but if the music is good, the audience will build.