Sam Roon here. I decided I’m going to document the trials and tribulations of booking a tour on your own. We’ve done it before but there were a ton of mistakes made and this time around I’m trying to learn from those mishaps and execute with a little more efficiency.

So we tried to get some booking agents to help us out but because we’re about as popular as a benchwarmer on the chess team in the professional world of heavy music, there’s not a whole lot these guys can do for us. It’s not about the music or anything personal.. it’s just that in the trying times of people stealing music online and an over-saturated scene, every band needs to be able to have some kind of backing and we’re just too small to guarantee what they’re looking for.

That being said, we’re a fucking live band and if we’re not playing shows then we might as well kill ourselves. To prevent the untimely death of the members of HUNG, we decided that we’re going to do this shit ourselves. As our good friend from the band IKILLYA would say, we’ve gotta “earn our stripes.” And that’s exactly what we intend to do. Continue reading →