Billy Moses

Spotted Owl Productions:

In advance: If you aren’t willing to sell tickets, do not ask to play any of my shows. After you play a good amount and I trust you, I’ll start to hook you up. But if I have little to no experience with your band, don’t count on it. I put in work and put together the line ups and shows that I do, so I except to do your end of the deal and sell tickets to ACTUAL PEOPLE… I don’t make shows high presale to be greedy, I do it to not lose money, honestly. Call it whatever you want, its the only want [sic] to make sure the show is completely successful. Don’t mean to sound like a dick, but thats [sic] how it has to be. NOW, if you’d like to play one of my shows (Including PARLIAMENT FEST) text me at *** *** ****.

Spotted Owl Productions took to Facebook Thursday night to publicly bash local bands who aren’t able to sell enough pre-sale. “Pre-sale,” a dreaded term used in the local music industry, representing a number of tickets that a band must sell before a production company or music venue will allow that band to play.

To be a considered as a “limitedly successful” band, bands need to proform at music venues to gain recognition and notoriety, they’re often told to sell pre-sales as high as 50 tickets at times, promoters make the prices of each ticket ten dollars, however, I’ve seen prices as high as twenty. Venues charge promoters about 1,000 dollars to let ten bands play, and the pre-sales of two or three bands easily make enough money to cover promoter expenses — leaving the promoter, like Spotted Owl Productions, a nice chunk of change, about 4,000 dollars in “fuck you” money.

What Spotted Owl Productions doesn’t understand is that bands, especially in the Southern California area, are in an economic crisis and that it is a hell of a lot more difficult to sell a twenty-dollar ticket than one might think. One twenty-dollar ticket often means for some people, filling up their gas tank to get to work and back, food in the refrigerator, oh, did I mention rent?

A man was wounded in a shooting Wednesday night by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Pico Rivera.

The shooting took place near Rosemead Boulevard. No deputies were injured, the Sheriff’s Department said.

The extent of the man’s injuries was not immediately available.

It was unclear what sparked the shooting. Investigators were at the scene late Wednesday gathering evidence.

Killing The Son is not going to be playing ShemFest III. A member of the band has an important prior commitment. Killing The Son’s next show is on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 at Mirror Image Studios.

Contact Billy@BillyMoses.com for tickets.

KFI just released the following statement:

“Effective immediately, KFI AM 640 hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have been suspended for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston.

KFI AM 640 Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind.

John Kobylt said, ‘We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision. We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston.’

John and Ken will return to the air Monday, February 27.”

I guess, effective immediately, KFI ratings will go down the drain.

Tommy took a leap of faith and changed his last name on Twitter from Morales to Avalon on Monday night. The change was years in the making. “I’ve always liked the name Avalon,” Thomas said recently. Morales remains his last name on Facebook.

The fact that Robert Tickell became, “Ms. Avalon” has no relevance to this article.

See also: Robert Tickell: “Thomas and I have never f**ked.”

A WARNING that black squirrels will spread to Cum-bria has come from a senior wildlife officer.

There are fears that it will become dominant – leading to displacement of grey and declining red populations.

There are believed to be 25,000 black squirrels in this country, with most being found in East Anglia.

There have been sightings in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire and they have also been spotted across the country.

So far none has been seen in Cumbria but David Harpley, conservation manager at Cumbria Wildlife Trust, said: “It will probably get here at some stage.

“The blacks seem to have some sort of genetic advantage but I don’t think anyone knows what it is.”

The nearest sighting to Cumbria was between Tam-brook and Marshaw, to the east of junction 33 of the M6, according to experts at the Black Squirrel Project based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

Black squirrels are exactly the same as greys in every way bar their colour, and are a sub-group of the grey.

Scientists are currently researching why blacks seem to be so successful.

They compete with greys for food and when the two species mate, the black gene seems to be dominant.

Cumbria is one of the few remaining strongholds of the red squirrel, which has declined to just 120,000 animals nationwide.

Greys and blacks pass on a deadly disease to the reds called squirrelpox, which causes lesions to develop on the skin and around the eyes.

To record any sightings of the black squirrel or to find out more, go to www.black-squirrelproject.org.

Whitney Houston died this afternoon … a rep for the singer announced. She was 48.

Our sources tell us a member of Whitney’s entourage found her in her 4th-floor room at the Beverly Hilton hotel … and called hotel security — who then dialed 911. When paramedics arrived Houston was found unresponsive.

We’re told police arrived to the scene within minutes and fire was already there on an unrelated call. According to our sources, paramedics performed CPR but it did not work and she was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.

Our sources say there were no obvious signs of foul play, but BH PD detectives have begun a full investigation. We’re told she was ID’ed by family and friends.

L.A. County Coroner Ed Winter told our photog at 7:09 PM that it is too early in the investigation to tell what happened.