Dear people, currently I’m busy writing my Master thesis and I need some help with this, which might also lead to an interesting discussion. I’m currently writing in the pre-research of my thesis and it’s about how the fans of artists help spread the word about them (through the Internet), mainly about concerts of relatively unknown bands. This will help me especially with narrowing the topic down to a problem definition.
So what I would like to know are the following things (you don’t have to answer them in a QA style, but this is just to make it easier):
1. How often do you go to concerts and who do you go with?
2. Why do you go to concerts?
3. How do you recommend music to people and how do people recommend music to you?
4. Do you ask other people to go to concerts and how do you do that? How do you convince them (think of the times they don’t know the band)? And the other way around, how do other people convince you to go to concerts? This can be any way, IRL or online. Think of everything from Facebook to blogs to forums.
5. Are there any bands you would deliver extra effort for (like your favorite bands) and if so, what things would you do that you normally don’t? Maybe there would be other reasons for you to deliver extra effort?
I mostly need die-hard fans who would go the extra mile for their favorite artists (as you can see in the last question), but if you’re not then that’s okay too. I mostly need an impression in order to define the types of people there are.
If you know better places to post this, let me know.
If you know die-hard fans who go the extra mile, PM me.
As well as if you’re an artist or know one who has fans that would spread the spread the word, PM me.
If you’re an event promotor, PM me too. I would like to know what the process of event promotion is like.
Thanks in advance people! I really appreciate this.



