Become a Sponsor and let Us do the advertising for you!
New Goth
America, Inc.
PO Box
780029
Maspeth, NY
11378
We are currently seeking sponsors to help defray the costs of transportation and lodging for the exceptional talent chosen to participate in the event, as well as promotional items such as t-shirts, pins, etc.
Michele Haro
Publicity & Sponsorship Coordinator
GothStock
PO Box
780029
Maspeth, NY
11378
NOTE: All information contained herein is considered confidential and may not be distributed without prior written approval from Charles Cudd or any and all members involved in GothStock or New Goth America Inc.
About GothStock The Festival
GothStock is a 2005 Music Festival featuring 46 different artists from all over United States and Canada. A two-day gathering of live music and entertainment to celebrate the beauty and dark lifestyle of sometimes misunderstood by the mainstream Gothic subculture will be held at Webster Theatre at Hartford, CT on September 24-25 2005. GothStock aimed to bring you the best of dark music and culture.
GothStock is quickly gaining support from the Gothic community all around the world. The great demand for this kind of event has been expressed through numerous e-mails, message boards, and online groups where we promoted our ideal. Starting out as a one-time gathering, GothStock has a definite potential to grow into a yearly national, and later, a worldwide event. This year GothStock is featuring major and independent acts such as Genitorturers, Cruxshadows, Project 44 (with the members of Thrill Kill Cult and VooDoo); The Last Dance, Combichrist, Bella Morte, Carfax Abbey, Dead Emotion, Ego Likeness and more.
With small vendors selling Goth-related merchandise, charities and giveaways two nights long, GothStock is geared up for people of dark walks of life to come together raising awareness for a peaceful, Gothic community. A portion of the profits of this event will go to charities that support our cause.
Although it is our first year of doing the event like GothStock, members involved in putting this festival together all have years of experience, specializing in this and like genres of music, promotion, advertising, business skills and even video / DVD production availability. Here’s a little information on who’s who behind GothStock 2005.
The Presenters:
New Goth America, Inc. - Independent record label. We organize events, concerts; promote bands both on and off our label in the Goth and all Rock Oriented Music scenes; also is home of New York’s own Goth Rock band, Dead Emotion.
www.wcpmanagement.com
& www.wildcauldron.com
Evil Empire Ent – NY and NJ Media Company that focuses on events and television, fusing underground music, community news and raising political awareness.
Artillery
Promotion – since April 2004 Artillery
Promotions has booked Extreme Metal events at the clubs like Wild Spirits NYC,
Backstage (Long Island), Downtime NYC, with bands like Vital Remains (featuring
Glen Benton of Deicide), Akercocke, Mortician, Internal Suffering, and more.
Artillery also manages Scorched Earth (NY), I.S.o.S. (MA), and Dead Man Society
(NY).
http://artillerypromotions.com
The Venue:
Webster Theatre – With it’s capacity over 1300 people, this Connecticut venue has become a prime location for the many national and international festivals and tours with easy access, plenty of hotels close by and plenty of places to eat. For the last 5 years it has been voted the Best Place to See Live Music and The Best Rock Club by the Hartford Advocate.
Please check out all of our websites for complete lists of events that have been successfully promoted
Sponsorship Levels
Sponsorships may be in the form of monetary
compensation, quid pro quo compensation,
and media coverage, with benefits tailored to varying levels of sponsorship. Our
Sponsorship Levels are created in tiers or a la carte items:
Ø
GothStock Groupie:
Fifty Dollars
Submit
your flyers and promotional materials (sorry no stickers) to be distributed to
event-goers via our GothStock Official Merchandise Table and the UnScene TV
Girls. Also receive web promotion
via placement of your company logo on the Official GothStock Website and
continuous advertising support via promotion emails, message board and blog
postings throughout the Gothic Internet Community.
Our promotions team reaches out to over 30,000 people on the web.
Ø
GothStock Street Team:
One Hundred Dollars
Featuring
all of the benefits of Tier 1, plus your company name (text only) featured in
the Official GothStock Yearbook, to be released late Fall, Early Winter after
the event, guaranteeing you even more promotion and advertising long after
GothStock 2005. Also take advantage
of a special 25% off our Vending Table rates.
Ø
GothStock Supporter:
Two Hundred Fifty Dollars
All
of the benefits above, plus an upgrade to include your company description and
website address in the GothStock 2005 Yearbook and an upgrade to 30% off our
Vending Table rates.
Ø
GothStock Silver Sponsor:
Five Hundred Dollars
All
of the benefits listed above, plus your company name in text on our Official
GothStock T-shirts, your company name (text only) on the Official GothStock DVD
credits and a black & white Business Card sized Ad in the GothStock 2005
Yearbook.
Ø
GothStock Gold Sponsor:
One Thousand Dollars
All
of the benefits listed above, plus an upgrade to a ¼ Page black & white Ad
in the GothStock 2005 Yearbook and your Logo shown on the GothStock 2005 DVD.
Ø
GothStock Platinum
Sponsor: Two Thousand Dollars
All
of the benefits above, plus upgrade to a ½ Page Black & White Ad in the
GothStock 2005 Yearbook, Your Logo printed on the Official GothStock 2005
T-shirts, and 50% off Vending Table Rates. PLUS – Be guaranteed the only
sponsor in your business category!
Ø
GothStock Corporate
Sponsor: Five Thousand Dollars
All
of the benefits above, plus an upgrade to a Full Page black
& white ad in the GothStock 2005 Yearbook, upgrade to a Free Vendor
Table, and inclusion of a 30 second commercial, supplied by you, in the
GothStock 2005 DVD.
Ø
GothStock Title Sponsor:
– Over Five Thousand Dollars
All of the benefits above plus a Full Page Color Ad in the GothStock 2005 Yearbook as well as frequent stage mentions of your company by the UnScene TV Girls as they Host the GothStock Main Stage.
A LA
CARTE SPONSORSHIPS & ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITES
Ø
Self Promoter 1: Twenty
Dollars
Want to promote your band or company yourself? With your paid admission, you can come out and enjoy this spectacular event while distributing your flyers and promotional items (no stickers) to everyone. Good for each day of paid admission.
Ø
Self Promoter 2: Twenty
Five Dollars
Want to promote your band or company but cannot make the show? Send us your flyers and promotional items (no stickers) and we will distribute them for you on our Official GothStock Merchandise Table.
Ø
T-shirt Advertisement 1:
One Hundred Dollars
Add your company name in text to the Official GothStock 2005 T-shirt. (Limited availability and must meet deadline requirements of September 10, 2005)
Ø
T-shirt Advertisement 2:
One Hundred Fifty Dollars
Include your company Logo on the Official GothStock 2005 T-shirts. (Limited availability and must meet deadline requirements of September 10, 2005).
Ø
Yearbook Advertising:
o
Text Name
Only in Supporters Section of Yearbook – 25.00
o
Text Name
and Company Description in Supporters Section of Yearbook – 50.00
o
Black
& White Business Card Sized Advertisement in Yearbook – 100.00
o
Full
Color Business Card Sized Advertisement in Yearbook – 175.00
o
Black & White ¼ Page Advertisement in Yearbook
– 250.00
o
Full Color ¼ Page Advertisement in Yearbook –
325.00
o
Black & White ½ Page Advertisement in Yearbook
– 450.00
o
Full Color ½ Page Advertisement in Yearbook –
525.00
o
Black & White Full Page Advertisement in Yearbook
– 700.00
o
Full Color Full Page Advertisement in Yearbook –
900.00
Ø
GothStock 2005 DVD Advertising:
o
Text Name Only in Credits – 100.00
o
Logo placed within DVD Footage – 250.00
o
Insertion of a 30 second commercial, provided by you – 500.00
Ø
GothStock Donor: Want to supply various items to be
used to raffle off to event-goers? Want
to show off your products? Simply
send us samples of your merchandise and we will raffle them off throughout the
show! Also, if you have wearables,
let us know and our UnScene TV Girls will be glad to showcase them by wearing
the items! All Giveaway items
supplied will receive a Stage Mention including the name and website of the
company.
Being a
sponsor for GothStock 2005 will give you a priority consideration for the
sponsorship of the future events!
What We Need From You
Like we mentioned before, GothStock is looking for sponsors to help with some of the financial needs we are facing in putting together an event of this size. Currently we are looking for monetary or service contributions covering the following expenses:
- Hotel expenses;
- T-shirts;
- Backdrop printing;
- Shuttle vans from venue to the hotel on the days of the performance;
- Hospitality expenses;
- Additional advertising;
- Donated items to raffle off;
Goth Stock is a unique event that serves Gothic subculture and underground scene to help promote its performers, vendors and community. Our goal is to raise awareness of the peaceful Gothic community that supports a good cause. Our show is all ages, and aimed for the teens as well as for the adult Gothic audience.
BANDS OF GOTH
STOCK 2005
Saturday, September 24,
2005
|
Sunday, September 25, 2005 |
GothStock Stage
Collapse Into Reason Mastermind Doomtree Voice of Dissension Dead Emotion Carfax Abbey Zen Vodou Combichrist The Last Dance Genitorturers
Evil Empire Ent. Stage Cult of The Psychic Fetus March to Victory Terrorcouple Anathema Device LorenGuard Sister Kill Cycle Serpent Underground Lunatic Candy Kreep Mankind is Obsolete Butcherpriest 13 Winters Slack |
GothStock
Stage Fallen Wisdom Force Fed Flesh Scorched Earth Season of Mourning The Hellz Kitchen Show One of Us Intricate Unit The Blessed Virgin Larry Handful of Dust Project 44 CruxShadows
Evil Empire Ent. Stage Ed Black TENEbRAE Imbolg Demized Circus of Dead Squirrels Annie’s Grave AbSynthe Human Factors Lab Still Life Decay Bella Morte Ego Likeness Anders Manga |
|
Current Sponsors |
Current
Vendors |
Ø Artillery PromotionØ Axis VideoØ
Evil Empire
Entertainment
Ø
Independent Music
Conference Ø
Hot Picks USA Ø
Lethal
Zone Productions Ø
Monster
Picks
Ø
New Goth America
Inc.
Ø
The Static Mass
Radio Ø
Trophy
World Ø
WC
Management Ø
Volume Magazine
|
Ø Goth Stock MerchandiseØ
Wicked Crafts
Ø
UnScene
TV …
and more are in the works! |
OFFICIAL
PRESS RELEASE
GothStock Music Festival: Independent Musicians Take Charge of Their Own Career
Local promoters are making a bold move putting together a two-day major event on September 24-25, 2005, billed as GothStock Festival, to be held at Webster Theatre in Hartford, CT. GothStock Festival is a time to celebrate the dark lifestyle with music, fun and entertainment and to display the beauty that is sometimes misunderstood by the mainstream.
As an answer to the major records labels suffering with the sluggish sales and lack of interest to new music, independent companies are pulling together in an effort to create an event sure to surpass the major events of its kind. GothStock is featuring over 40 different artists from all over the country including acts as Genitorturers, Cruxshadows, The Last Dance, Bella Morte, Carfax Abbey, Dead Emotion, Ego Likeness and more. GothStock is geared up for people of different subcultures to come together raising awareness for a peaceful community that supports children, treatment of illness and animal rights. A portion of the profits of this event will go to charities that support that cause.
“This is our answer to a scene which the mainstream doesn’t care about and no one wants to do anything to promote”, says Charles Cudd, CEO of New Goth America Inc, the main presenter of the event. He is not alone. Hot Picks USA has endorsed three of the GothStock bands – Sister Kill Cycle, The Blessed Virgin Larry and Dead Emotion. Wild Cauldron Productions, Volume Magazine, Rapture Radio, and the Independent Music Conference are among the growing sponsors and supporters of the festival.
Other presenters of GothStock are Lethal Zone Productions, an independent production company specializing in the right size room for the right size event, which has worked with many of NYC finest venues such as Tramps, Lime Light, The Bank, Wetlands, Down Time, Continental and the Spiral; Artillery Promotion, which specializes on promoting metal events and managing local death and metal bands such as Scorched Earth and Dead Man Society; Evil Empire Entertainment – NY and NJ’s own Media company that focuses on events, underground music and television; WC Productions - New Jersey's premiere promotions and publicity firm as well as parent company of The Wild Cauldron music and entertainment publication; and Axis Video - NJ independent music and film production company, with such classics under it’s belt as “Dynasty of Darkness”, Dead Emotion’s music video “Bytch” and “Nothing To Die For” and feature short films.
GothStock Festival will be held on
September 24 and 25, 2005 at Webster Theatre in Hartford, CT. Tickets are on
sale now at http://www.tickets.com/venue_info.cgi?VENUE_ID=537
For
phone orders, call Tickets.com at 800-477-6849 or come to the Webster Box
Office, Monday thru Friday, 12 noon to 5:30pm.
For
More Information contact Michele Haro/WCP Management & New Goth America,
Inc. – 908-338-1836 mharo@wcpmanagement.com.
Sincerely,
Michele Haro
Publicist
New Goth America, Inc.
908-338-1836
mharo@wcpmanagement.com