(10-28-2011, 07:31 PM)Tokio Wrote: The two people who run the street team are Angel Brazier and Melissa Castor (I believe Melissa is registered here, but hasn't been around).

They are both fans of the band, however I'm pretty sure at least Angel works in the music industry. The company she's listed with is a US company that works with Japanese bands so she has some experience with them. She also lists herself a booking agent, artist handler and so on.

I am not sure who the management company is, however she said they were hired by the tour manger. So it sounds like they are officially employed by the tour manager to run the page.

From what I understand they're doing promotions to get the show sold out. The FB page mentions that they'll receive physical promotion materials for people to use.

As for them not working with us.. I dunno. She [Angel] didn't actually say 'no' but when I got a PM explanation she didn't mention my comment at all. She just explained who they were and that she is a professional.

She said they won't be doing any fan stuff like banners, that stuff is left to the fangirls. And bands shouldn't work with fangirls. They are only doing normal professional promotion to get tickets sold.

I was hoping we could work together. Back in VAMPS days I had people contacting me to get me to help promote on the forum. The first tour I was even offered free concert tickets, which I gave away in a raffle.

This entire forum was created to help people going to concerts. I want it to be more active and helpful for people who have travel questions and so on.

It says in their latest FB post that they are not affiliated with any other fanpage or group. Maybe they don't want to work with others because they think it will make them look fangirly or unprofessional.

It's funny that these people are trying to be so "professional" when the L'Arc~en~Ciel "Official" Street Team page is full of grammatical errors. Initially when they started the page, L'Arc~en~Ciel's name wasn't even written correctly. That really pisses me off. I mean, if you're going to claim to represent this awesome band and present yourselves as official members of an organization that represents the United States, would it kill you to hit spell check? I mean, c'mon. It's ridiculous. I also really like how they make it a point to represent the east coast. I have no problems with the east coast or anything like that, but L'Arc did say that there is still more info to come, presumably more tour dates to be added. And if that's the case, why not keep that in mind? Instead, they post as if it is FOR SURE that L'Arc is going to New York and ONLY New York. What the hell are these people going to do if L'Arc decides to add a date on the west coast? Say, "Oh btw, those living on the west coast can help out now!" Way to alienate fans, guys. The goal of a street team should be to get ALL fans residing in the U.S. to work TOGETHER, not by region. Even though the focus, for the time being anyway, should be New York, they should still make all fans feel included because I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the internet is a powerful tool. And you don't need to live in New York to use it.

/rant