Hey bands, food porn addicts & music nerds – IFC has a show, and a super opportunity for you.
Music geekery and food porn go together like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong. But bands must go on tour, it’s how they make a living – it’s part of their job. And unfortunately, the road makes it incredibly difficult to prepare a meal.
(note: if you like to cook or have a great kitchen the nicest thing you can do for a friend in a band on tour blowing through your town is cook a meal or ask them if they feel like cooking.)
IFC’s Dinner With The Band (currently airing) stars Sam Mason, famous NYC chef (Tailor, WD-50) and also, like most rock stars, covered in ink. Sam invites a band to his Brooklyn home and shows them how to add his spin to their favorite tour food. The result is televised food porn, crafted voyeurism and casual interviews with cool bands. In each episode, the host (Chef Mason) discusses food, music, and life while everyone cooks together. After everyone eats, the bands play on the stage in Chef Mason’s (large and awesome) Brooklyn loft.
Opportunity:
The Independent Film Channel is seeking background music for Dinner With The Band and is reaching out to musicians “to give exposure to as many bands as possible through our selections,” which makes perfect sense, given the concept behind the show. After you go through the submission process, if your song is used, “the selected track will be tagged with a lower third graphic when played in show which will include the artist’s name, title of track and label. The song and band will also be posted on the IFC website as further promotion.”
Examples of the attribution tags can be seen in this video
Examples of promotion are here, in the episode with one of my favorite bands, Final Fantasy.
Before you violently search your hard drive for appropriate music to submit, please note that all music must be instrumental, but the ideal is a submission which has vocal tracks removed.
IFC wants “high energy rock” and pop songs. Of course all songs (publishing & masters) will be licensed to IFC gratis – and this is a promo trade that we deem worth it.
Instead of submitting your music randomly for licensing all over the web and hoping you don’t end up in a tampon ad or deemed a real housewife, this is an opportunity to reach out to a very willing audience, clearly interested in music.
To apply, post your music as a comment here, twitter @coreythrace or write to corey@sfappeal.com
Acceptable forms of submissions: links to streams to potential tracks, contact info and band website (myspace is acceptable as a band website)
