House concerts on eBay

An idea for bands in Ireland to consider: the Belgian band Rawhide recently offered a house concert by themselves for auction on eBay. Thierry Schoysman, banjo-player for Rawhide, reports:

We've done some living-room concerts in the past and it's always a very nice thing. We don't need a sound system, the atmosphere is always great, and we sell a lot of CDs afterwards. Our reaction is always that we would even do such gigs for nothing. So I thought: let's clearly write down our conditions and put it on eBay. And about 195 visitors [up to a few days ago], that's good publicity. Maybe we've launched a new wave in music?

Rawhide won the #3 Audience Popularity Award at the European World of Bluegrass Festival in the Netherlands in 2006 and 2007, and also won a special award this year as the only band to appear at all ten EWOB Festivals.