Round TWO is tonight! We are playing at 10:00pm, so make sure to get there before that. Thanks to everyone who bought advance tickets. We sold the most out of all the bands and were able to get the time slot we wanted.
And to anyone who didn’t buy tickets already: They will have more tickets available at the door, so it’s not too late to come to this show!
TONIGHT, WED AUG 16
North Star Bar
27th & Poplar St
Philadelphia, PA
Thanks to everyone who voted for us, we finished as one of the top 20 bands in the Fresh Films contest. That means we were eligible to have our music featured in any of the films.
Fresh Films Atlanta chose “Silence Broken” for their film “The Testimony of Saint Grey“. You can watch it online right now and vote for them as many times as you want! Voting for them is like voting for us, so get over there and make it happen. If they win this thing, that’s even more exposure for our music, which is always a good thing.
Click here for the Fresh Films website!
Then click on “FILMS” and then on Atlanta on the left to watch the film. Please vote for them too! You can vote more than once, so just keep voting as much as you have time for!
The next round in the Bodog Battle of the Bands will be taking place Wednesday, August 16th at the North Star Bar in Philly. We will be competing against 10 other local Philly bands to move on to the next round so we really need your help.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16
North Star Bar
27th & Poplar St
Philadelphia, PA
Show starts at 7:30pm. We won’t know our time slot until the night before so try to get there on time!
We need as many people as possible to come to this show. If you’re anywhere near the Philly area and will be free that night PLEASE COME! We need you guys! Voting will take place at the venue on the night of the show, so if you don’t show up, you can’t vote.
We have advance tickets that we’re selling for $10. If we sell the most tickets we have first choice of what time slot we want to play, which really makes a difference. So if you’re planning on coming please try to get your tickets from us.
Buying the tickets online requires sending us the money through PayPal. If you can’t do that for some reason, or you know us personally and would just rather buy them directly from us, contact us through the site or find me on AIM (dansinch) and we’ll work something out.
The way this show works is that 10 bands will each be playing a 30 minute set. On the back of everyone’s ticket stub is a place to write your favorite 3 bands of the night (in order). There will also be judges who will be scoring each band on performance, orginality, style, etc. And the winners will be chosing by a combination of those two factors. 2 bands will be chosen with this method and then a 3rd “wildcard” band will be chosen by online voting for 7 days after the show. So if for some reason we’re not one of the top 2 bands, be ready to do some serious online voting to keep us in the race!
If we make it past this show, there are two more rounds to narrow the Philly bands down to one and then in the final round the top band from each city will play a nationally televised show! We’ll have more info as we go along, but for now we need everyone at this show! Seriously! We’re not fucking around this time!
With your guys help I think we have a chance to go all the way!
Also, check out the update on Fresh Films below!
As you may have noticed, there hasn’t been a new SinchCast in almost a month. I knew at some point we were gonna need a break. I hadn’t planned to take a break now but it just sort of happened on its own. Sorry we didn’t tell anyone what’s going on.
We actually have one more podcast already recorded that I’ll try to post this week. It strays a bit from the usual formula when Jamie’s dad walks in and sort of takes over the show for a while. I wasn’t sure if it would be interesting or funny to people who don’t know Jamie’s dad, but I guess at this point, its better than nothing. I’m sure at least some of you will enjoy it. Plus, you still get a new unreleased track, so there’s always that.
Beyond that, I’m not exactly sure what we’re doing. Think of everything up until now as “Season 1″ of the podcast (Special Edition Criterion DVD coming soon!). I’d like to try some new things and change the format up a bit, but I haven’t really figured it all out yet. Basically, I think we can do something that will appeal to more than just our hardcore fanbase. We appreciate all the support we get from you guys, but at the same time we need to try to expand the whole thing a bit.
So, “SinchCast 2: Electric Boogaloo” is coming soon. And so is SINCH.TV. I swear! When we originally said “coming soon”, we meant “in about a year or some shit,” which is actually pretty soon now.
Online voting for the Bodog Battle of the Bands ended recently and thanks to all your votes, we officially made it to the 2nd round! We finished in the #2 spot for Philly, out of a shitload of bands (I don’t know the exact number, but it was a lot).
We’re still waiting for details but apparently Round Two involves promoting a show and getting as many people as we can to come out to the show and vote… again. But this time you vote in person at the end of the show. This will most likely be an all ages show, so we’re gonna need all of you (in the surrounding area of course), to help us out again when the time comes. We should have some more details very soon. Stay tuned…
We need everyone voting for us everyday (or at least as often as you can remember). To help you remember we’ve set up a “daily reminder” email list. Sign up and get a Sinch Random Fact of the Day(TM) emailed to you every day between now and June 30!
(no longer available)
Thats almost 40 days of awesomely random facts that most people don’t know about Sinch! Collect ‘em all!
And you better be paying attention because there WILL be a quiz later! Everyone who aces the quiz will be eligible to get a hold of some cool Sinch stuff you can’t get anywhere else! So sign yourself up, and make sure you read (and vote!) every day!
If you’re worried about spam, don’t be… Once the voting is closed, we’ll be deleting the mailing list and we’ll never email you again. We just figured this would be a fun way to remind everyone to vote everyday.
We’re in another contest! Sinch is now entered into the Zippo Hot Tour 2006. There is a $100,000 prize package at stake as well as a slot on the 2006 Zippo Hot Tour with a yet-to-be-named national touring band.
Once again the first round is online voting. The difference with this contest is that you can vote ONCE A DAY! So we need everyone who’s willing to spare some time to try to remember to come back every day and vote for us!
We should mention that the website is a little confusing. You’ll have to enter your birthdate and email address and some other stuff so that they can keep track of how many votes you have. Feel free to give fake info, but make sure you use a working email address.
Once you do that, you’ll have to click on Philadelphia on the map and then scroll down to find SINCH. Next to our name there is an empty checkbox that says “NOT.” Click on that and it changes to “HOT” and then scroll down and click the “These Bands are HOT” button. It’s kind of a pain in the ass, but there’s not much we can do about it. It’s a little bit easier after the first vote, since all you need to do is put in the DOB and email you used and it will remember you.
Again, you can vote once a day in each city. Voting is open until June 30th, so remember to come back and vote as much as you can.
And if you want to help spread the word, you can copy and paste this html to post the banner on your myspace page or other website.
You can find more banners and downloadable flyers here:
http://www.zippoforbusiness.com/mediaCenter/graphics/hotTourBanners.aspx
Sinch is now entered into the $1,000,000 Bodog Battle of the Bands!
There are a bunch of different rounds to this thing but it looks like the first stage is online voting. So we need everyone to get the word out on this and get people voting.
You can vote for us here! http://www.bodogbattleofthebands.com/bandsandmusic/profile.php?band_id=39
We’re currently #3 in the Philadelphia area, but we need to be #1!! We can do this!! Yesterday we were at #30 in Philadelphia and in the #200s overall, so I know a lot of you are voting already. Great work on this!!
(This is one of the first missions we are doing in the SinchArmy. But we figured we need all the help we can get so we’re sending it to everyone. If this is the kind of thing you think you’d like to help us with, sign up for the SinchArmy now! http://www.sinch.net/sincharmy)
Anyway, to help promote this there are several things you can do:
Use this banner!
To use the banner either copy and paste the html below…
…or you can use this direct link however you choose: http://www.sinch.net/images/BodogBanner.gif
With a lot of the Myspace stuff… don’t be afraid to repost this several times. When people get a lot of bulletins and comments on their profile, they get pushed down pretty fast, so it’s good to repost every so often to make sure they get seen!
Thanks to everyone who voted!
We made it into the top 5 finalists! Now it’s up to Samsung to choose the winner. We’ll keep you posted on how it all turns out!
We are now semi-finalists in the Fresh Sounds contest on Fresh-Films.com! We’re in the running with 20 other bands for a spot on the Fresh Films movie soundtracks and promotional trailers that will be screened nationwide!
Voting started yesterday so we’re a little behind, but I think we can pull ahead if everyone takes a minute to vote and then pass this along to all of your friends. Get everyone you know to vote!
For more info on Fresh Films check out the website here:
http://www.fresh-films.com
