Musicians are often stereotyped for not being the most studious types in the classroom, meaning that sometimes you might have slept right through your 1st period grammar class and could have missed a few lessons here and there. But these days you’re trying to be a professional musician, so do everyone a favor and check your spelling and grammar. Have a website that makes sense and is spelled correctly. Make sure flyers are checked for mistakes. Triple check press releases and other such communications. Sounds elementary, right? It’s not, we’ve seen countless mistakes and when someone send you somethings like that, it’s often very frustrating.
Further, most interviews these days are done through email. This site (which does a lot of interviews) often gets responses with atrocious misspellings and terribly incorrect grammar. When someone is taking the time to give you and your band free promotion and you don’t even take the time to at least spellcheck, you are insulting them directly – this is unforgivable. Many browsers and most text editing software are equipped with a spell checker, so you have little excuse. Don’t piss off the people that are going to give you exposure. Take the time to make sure what you said makes sense and is spelled correctly. If you’re not good at this, find someone who is – it takes 5 minutes and could certainly change the way someone perceives you and your band. Yeah, we know. Spelling and grammar is difficult for us as well (we make plenty of errors on this site), but when you are trying to get someone to do you a favor with press and promotion, taking the time to make sure everything is correct can take you a long way.