Haley's never been better positioned (outside of the Idol bubble) to step out on her own. But it will be difficult to top 2015 without the help of PMJ. I think her best hope might be opening for a "name."
Is that easier said than done if you're not affiliated with a major label? Maybe it makes sense for Haley to sign with a label -- if she has that opportunity due to CHFIL -- mainly for that reason?
Some comments I found on the Internet:
Quote:Actually, back in the day, bands on the same label generally toured together. Cheaper for the Studios to present 2 or3 or 4 of their own acts at a venue instead of just one. Simple business really. Which is how Jimi Hendrix ended up opening for The Monkeys on his first American tour...
Quote:Opening acts make more sense at smaller shows, where the headliner isn't extremely well known, because the people going to those shows are more interested in the music and the scene.
Opening acts for bigger shows, where the headliner is huge, make less sense cause you have all these part time fans who just want to see their one and only favorite band and could care less who or how good the opening act is.
Quote:...we got introduced to opening act The Police via new wave headliners The Cars. Now that was a cool concert.
...We knew The Cars, having seen them on TV shows like Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, so we knew their live shows could be "mannequin-esque". We presumed any such opening acts would be, I dunno, actual mannequins. Thus, when Sting and the boys hit the stage, 17,000 of the hippest kids in the tri-state area did a simultaneous double-take. Granted, it would take a few songs to tear some of the stragglers away from their conversations and such, but when the lights went up some forty minutes later, the entire arena sat in slack-jawed wonder. The Police were impressive, to say the least, but in rocking us off our collective asses, they had just ruined The Cars for us.
...That same year, we'd also seen a completely unknown band called Iron Maiden open for Judas Priest.
...And then slowly, ever so slowly, an odd thing happened. We noticed that less and less thought was being put into opening acts. More and more, we were showing up at shows to see bands that had gotten the gig simply because they were on the same label, or shared the same management.
...As a result, we stopped showing up early enough to see the opening acts, which we used to do without exception. The thrill of being turned on to some cool new bands completely went out the window and we came to look upon opening acts with complete disdain. That's a huge change from we could respect a new band based on the fact that they'd opened for certain bands that we already liked.
Haley & PMJ - great exposure...what does the future hold?
