We paid this dude Dustyn Mitchell (DM Booking And MGMT) ($250 for a year and a half subscription to his services) a little over a year ago to do booking, promotions, and management for us. We joined a huge roster with a lot of bands, mostly small, but a couple up-and-comers in the deathcore scene. He promised us shows, tours, spots on Spotify playlists, promotions, partnerships with Total Deathcore, etc.
Things started off good, the dude was responsive, and genuinely seemed like he was trying to work for us. He booked us one show at the end of last year (the one in Michigan), and it was small but was good
Jump forward to this year, he didnt offer us a single show. Didnt do any promotions etc. So we reached out to him and told him we wanted to tour. Gave him the locations, and the dates we all had off to get it done. Said he would get it done. A few months go by, no tour is booked and he basically tells us "nobody wants to book us". Last month he asks us "do you guys want to get on some Spotify playlists?" And we're like "no shit, we paid you do to that", and he had the GALL to ask for more money, where I promptly said "nah fuck you, we're not paying you anymore".
So he booked ONE show for us, and then did nothing. No promotions, he didnt even share our shit on Facebook. He had other bands tour, but claimed he could do nothing for us (he even had a tour come through to Chicago and didnt throw us on as a local opener). Nothing happened with Total Deathcore. Etc.
So we basically said "fuck this guy, he isn't doing anything for us". And removed his contact info from our pages, and I took over booking again.
On the side, he was apparently feuding with Total Deathcore, and then he launched a partnership with Continental Booking, where he was found out to be scamming people, and Continental Booking fired him and did a public call out. Suddenly dozens of bands came out of the woodwork telling stories exactly like ours. He stole thousands from small bands, and didn't do a damn thing for anybody.
I know I had told you vaudeville mews but unfortunately it was closed. That was the goat dive bar venue. Lefty’s or xbk are the venues you’d wanna look at.
I appreciate the red white and blue band logo on this. It perfectly fits the theme and is a small example of branding done right. Small simple things can make a big impact.
I was gonna say Deprived Of Construct’s logo is horrible, cause the spacing makes it read like Deprived Of Cons Truct. But then I realized the logo is literally deprived of construct, so if that was intentional then it’s actually kinda genius lmao.
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You should be thanking him honestly.
https://youtu.be/wKbU8B-QVZk
I been posting it on my Snap too. Idk how to meme us. I tried reaching out Lambgoat, put it on Reddit, and all over Facebook and Insta.
Things started off good, the dude was responsive, and genuinely seemed like he was trying to work for us. He booked us one show at the end of last year (the one in Michigan), and it was small but was good
Jump forward to this year, he didnt offer us a single show. Didnt do any promotions etc. So we reached out to him and told him we wanted to tour. Gave him the locations, and the dates we all had off to get it done. Said he would get it done. A few months go by, no tour is booked and he basically tells us "nobody wants to book us". Last month he asks us "do you guys want to get on some Spotify playlists?" And we're like "no shit, we paid you do to that", and he had the GALL to ask for more money, where I promptly said "nah fuck you, we're not paying you anymore".
So he booked ONE show for us, and then did nothing. No promotions, he didnt even share our shit on Facebook. He had other bands tour, but claimed he could do nothing for us (he even had a tour come through to Chicago and didnt throw us on as a local opener). Nothing happened with Total Deathcore. Etc.
So we basically said "fuck this guy, he isn't doing anything for us". And removed his contact info from our pages, and I took over booking again.
On the side, he was apparently feuding with Total Deathcore, and then he launched a partnership with Continental Booking, where he was found out to be scamming people, and Continental Booking fired him and did a public call out. Suddenly dozens of bands came out of the woodwork telling stories exactly like ours. He stole thousands from small bands, and didn't do a damn thing for anybody.
https://lambgoat.com/news/39943/continental-touring-exposes-booking-agent-dustyn-mitchells-fake-promises/?fbclid=IwAR3kDqC4ARWooC2Kun1DqyGRy4VWkQv7Ctmihg03VtEnAfHpR9tcv5YnmNA