Seriously every bio I come across is written in 3rd person narrative.
Most of them are poorly done, in the case of DJ's basically saying "so and so has played before/after the likes of <insert famous dj here>" as if it pertains to them somehow. I've played after paul oakenfold.... no seriously, it probably wasn't even in the same country, or venue, or month, but I've played after him too
So do you think people seriously have to write this way about themselves to get noticed? I'm seriously thinking about taking a tongue in cheek approach to this whole "self marketing" thing. So lets see, every DJ Bio i've seen of the big names seems to have the obligitory "landmark" photo. For seattle, it's posing with the space needle, for new york, seems to be like, blurry subways or something,
If I gotta go outta my way to do this i'm thinking of just putting a flight case over my head and holding up a sign that says "Obligatory flight case/landmark photo"
I understand the idea behind hyping yourself to people who have no idea what or who you are, you're selling an image, and this image pushes a service, you're selling your service as an aspiring musician/dj/performer of the sort, and in turn selling some cd's as well.
I just feel like, if I have such an inability to even manage writing in the 3rd person, the rest of this doesn't look good for me. I guess this is why people try to hire managers, I dunno.
thoughts? ideas for alternate routes?