http://www.myspace.com/pendulum
The top of Pendulum's MySpace has three rotating images that portray images of the band in a professional photography studio, performing at Reading and a picture taken from their album art. Beside this is another image of the band set as their profile picture. Beneath this are the usual links seen on MySpace pages; send message, add to friends, IM, add to group, block user, add to favourites, forward to friend and rank user. Under this information are links to Pendulum's pictures and videos, the URL for the MySpace and Pendulum's genre of music (Drum & Bass/Rock/Electronica). Above the main section of the profile is a banner advertising their "tour of the Americas" being on sale now.
The main profile is split into two columns. On the left is a video of them performing 'Granite' at Reading which visitors to the page can watch. Under this is the "general info" section which contains the following information:
Band Website - Pendulum.com
Fan Website & Forum - Pendulumlive.com
Pendulum TV - Pendulum TV - You Tube
Sounds Like - A Wall of Sound
Band Members:
- Rob Swire (vocals/synth/producer)
- Gareth McGrillen (bass guitar/DJ)
- Perry ap Gwynedd (guitar)
- Paul 'El Hornet' Harding (DJ)
- Kodish (drums)
- Ben Mount (MC)
Record Label - Ear Storm
Management - Jho Oakley
Agents :
- Solomon Parker (Live)
- Obi Asika (DJ)
Webmaster - Ollie Martin
Below this information is another link to buy tickets for the tour of the Americas, followed by a poster advertising the tour dates and locations with numbers to call for tickets. Following this is a link to buy tickets to the 'In Silico' tour 2008 in the UK which is accompanied by the tour promotion poster which again contains the dates and locations of the tour as well as the relevant information to call for tickets.
The remaining section of the left hand column under general info contains a link to the Band's merch store with moving images of products available followed by the logos of all the festivals Pendulum are appearing at in 2008.
This section is followed by a box where fans can sign up to the mailing list or read the band's biography which may be of interest to many visitors to the page.
The right hand column starts with the mini player which has 5 songs in it; 'Radio 1 Mini Mix', 'Violet Hill Cover', 'Other Side', 'Propane Nightmares' and 'The Tempest'. THese tracks cannot be downloaded from the page which forces fans to use legal services and pay for downloads (although some may use Limewire). Below this is a comprehensive list of events which includes times, dates and locations of gigs as well as the venue of the gig which fans can use to identify any near them. This is followed by a blog box which contains links to and titles of the latest three posts. Pendulum's "top 8" friends are below this (which appear to be written by one of their PR team as opposed to the band themselves), showing links to all band members' personal MySpaces as well as a Pendulum community MySpace.
The final section of the page is the comments left by fans and spammers. These have been set to the left to fall in line with the left hand column of the page.
The page itself is very impersonal, none of the band have revealed anything a bout themselves and the images used are all professionally shot. Interestingly, there are no links to sell stuff for the band except the merch. Usually there are links to iTunes for downloading, YouTbe for viewing videos and press quotes about bands, however none of this is present on pendulum's page.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Pendulum's MySpace
Posted by LATYMERMEDIA at 11:26 AM
Labels: MySpace analysis
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