Back to Music! The Vaccines

I really hadn't had enought time to write a piece for my blog. Now that I found some time I decid to get back to the base of my blog, music. MTV has changet it's channels on sky, so now I have MTV rocks, that is an english channel (I'm also able to watch uK's adds-I can't understand the utility to show me britain's products since I'll never be able to buy them, unless I take the plane, go shopping in a supermarket in London and fly back- ).
Nevermind, the nice thing is that I was able to hear some english music, that I won't hear in Italy. What did I discover? English music is pretty pretty good, but that's nothing new I suppose. English music has been pretty pretty good since the '60s.
Well I heard this new band, the Vaccines. It looks like I'm a little late 'cause I understood that they're quite famous in Britain. But I should say that their tune "If you wanna" is very nice. I also understood that they were famous before even "being famous", I mean they were able to build their "famousness" before evn releasing their LP.
How were they able to do it? Here there are some easy steps to make of your band something big (as the Vaccines did):
1) Their identity was so hidden that someone thought that one of the musicians was a member of the Royal family for godness' sake! Being misterious always helps, even in love.
2) Their "parterre" is famous. Belive me, if between you can count celebrities such as Alex Kapranos, well you're almoust there. Is a paper writes that Alex Kapranos was spotted at your gig, they will write the name of your band in the article. Some crazy or curious fan of Franz Ferdinand's will come to a gig of yours and try to listen to you. Or meet Alex Kapranos.
3) Blog entries entirely dedicated to the fact that they did a sold out, or dedicated to their incredible talent. If you have some bloggers friends the game is done.
4)Their concerts last half an hour. That's not something that I apreciate, but the lesson that we can take is that doing something original, not only on the musical level, helps. The strange things always chatch your eye.
I mean, just look at Lady Gaga. Which popstar would ever call her fans "monsters"? Who would ever be dressed by pieces of meat? Who would make strange and horrible videos for his songs? The answer is Lady Gaga.
And she as The Vaccines started everything with a simple principal "I'm famous even if nobody knows me". And here they are, famous in the real world. Even if their music isn't this original. So if you have a band, well try these few tips, they might work on you too. ;)

Savannah xx