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?

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.

“Oh, The World” just announced on Facebook that they plan to no longer make physical copies of their music to distribute to fans.

Developing…

A band insider says, “A Smile Less Alive” will announce that their band mates will being going their separate ways in an upcoming announcement. Our spy says two of the band members are fighting a lot over a female. No further details were immediately made available.

BillyMoses.com has obtained exclusive pictures of what Nick Hansen and Brandi Hernandez’ kids might look like.

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.”

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.