September 07, 2007
FLYLEAF “DEMAND” COLLEGE LIFE WITH EVENTFUL
Students Get the Power to Influence Where Flyleaf Performs
SAN DIEGO, CA (September 7, 2007) – Eventful, the leading global events web site, joined forces with the female-fronted Texas rockers Flyleaf - who are known to break traditions and fuel hopefulness through their cutting edge music; to launch a nationwide college competition. The top 5 colleges with the most “demanders” rock out with a show from Flyleaf this 2007-2008 school year.
Eventful Demand enables fans to influence where their favorite artists perform by creating grass-roots campaigns to “Demand” the artists to come to their town or college campus. Over 20,000 artists, comedians and even politicians are using Eventful Demand to connect with their fans and empower them to help shape their tour. Eventful Demand is quickly becoming a phenomenon in the music and entertainment industry.
Flyleaf, whose single “All Around Me” continues to climb the charts, will be using Eventful Demand to let thousands of their fans determine which five colleges get to experience the band’s powerful sound and irresistible appeal with live performances right on their college campus.
Sameer Bhattacharya, guitarist in Flyleaf states, "We as a band are glad to be a part of Eventful. We're thankful that there are folks out there that are asking us to play for them. We love all of our fans very much and are excited to be a part of this.”
Launched on September 6th, the Demand competition will continue through 12:00 pm PST, October 4th, at Eventful. The winning colleges will be announced on October 5th.
“We love helping build stronger connections between fans and artists by enabling fans to influence where their favorite performers tour,” said Eventful’s CEO Jordan Glazier. “We’re excited to help Flyleaf give their devoted fans the power to shape their tour.”
Along with MySpace, YouTube and iTunes, Eventful is quickly becoming an essential part of the online marketing toolkit for performers and artists. Eventful is transforming the way that tours get routed by empowering fans to influence the tours of their favorite performers and by enabling performers to make the best decisions about where to tour.
Fans can log on to www.eventful.com/flyleaf, and www.myspace.com/flyleaf to join the competition and Demand a performance from Flyleaf on their college campus.
About Eventful, Inc.
San Diego based Eventful, Inc., operates Eventful.com, the leading events website which enables its community of users to discover, promote, share and create events throughout the world. Eventful users select from nearly 4 million events taking place in local markets throughout the world, from concerts and sports to singles events and political rallies. Eventful’s Demand service enables users to influence where their favorite performers appear by creating grass-roots campaigns to “Demand” them in their town.
About Flyleaf
Flyleaf – vocalist/lyricist Lacey Mosley, guitarists Sameer Bhattacharya and Jared Hartmann, bassist Pat Seals, and drummer James Culpepper – have been on tour honing their dynamic live performance, since the September 2005 release of their album (although they have been playing together since 2002). Three top-charted Rock singles later – “I’m So Sick,” “Fully Alive,” and “All Around Me” –have amassed over 700,000 album sales.
CONTACT
For Eventful:
Tamala Baldwin
(858) 882-0371
tamala@eventful.com
Posted by brian at September 7, 2007 12:13 PM