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Gigging in Second Life

Now this is more my style — I’ve been reading about it for a while, but Wired has a good musicians-in-Second Life overview called Second Life Rocks (Literally).

For those who don’t know, Second Life is an online virtual world. Kind of a giant 3D chat room. I’ve popped in there a couple of times and it was sort of chaotic, but the music angle is interesting and appeals to the lazy person in me.

Suzanne Vega has already gigged in Second Life and Duran Duran will be performing on their own island — which had better be called Duran Duranistan.

Even the front page of secondlife.com has this on it:

I think I may need to call a Brad Sucks Live meeting to suggest that our live show could benefit from an increased heavily armed robot and minotaur presence. 

According to the article there are lots of gigs going on all the time, I guess I’ll try to check one out. Any recommendations?

Posted to by Brad on 8/15/06 @ 3:57 pm |
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5 Responses to “Gigging in Second Life”



  1. 1
    Alexander Lapointe

    If you enjoy piano music, then on Friday nights an avatar named Jaycatt Nico plays live. I’m not sure of the time and location though you could probably search his name and get an event listing. Also U2inSL will be holding a concert on August 24th. Once again I don’t have a time, but a simple search should inform you. Hope to see you in SL! :)

  2. 2
    Brad

    I signed up, I’m “Brad Susenko”. Man do I need a graphics card upgrade though, this thing is hella slow.

  3. 3
    Alexander Lapointe

    Very True. Luckly, I signed up right after I upgraded my comp. :P

  4. 4
    kmotiv

    thought you might find this interesting…

    http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/09/08/urgent-security-announcement/

  5. 5
    thehipcola.com » Blog Archive » Second Life

    [...] I was thinking about indie music promotion and the net yesterday, when I remembered a Brad Sucks post that described the fact more and more musicians are heading to Second Life to promote their First Life (here) music, there. Almost two million, people are doing their virtual thang in Linden Lab’s world now, so the potential impact and exposure is not unlike MySpace. (Nor is the experience a bloated, painfully slow one either, like MySpace!) [...]



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