I would be sad without it!

It seems just like yesterday that all this was just starting up, and that me and you had first met each other at the Headliners show where you not only introduced yourself to me, but also to members of the Reverie and the Bourbon Brothers, all of whom were really nice people and, as I found out, very supportive of what I did as well.

I think in a microcosm of sorts, that show symbolized exactly what you strive every day to do. It’s not really the reporting on the happenings of the scene that makes scenesc special, — because someone can always read the playlist or the state for that — It’s your willingness to actually go to shows and connect the people that make up the music scene, and to help keep it thriving with fresh ideas, spreading the conversation between artists. Where a journalist has to have a certain disconnect in order to report objectively on events going on, you submerge yourself deep within the scene to comment on the things that really tug at your own strings, and that’s something only SceneSC can do.

That dialogue doesn’t have to be physical, of course. Online networking like facebook, myspace and twitter have continued the dialogue between bands even when they can’t meet face to face, but many of the times you have been the matchmaker.

I really didn’t know what I was out to say when I began writing this, but after 3 years of being in this band, I can say that no one has written more about our journey or documented it on video like you have. Even down to the small things like printing fliers to promote and devising plans to offer the site more content, you’ve always been open to doing whatever it takes to support us.

For what, I and the rest of the band thank you wholeheartedly for doing what you do. We know it’s not a lucrative job, and takes alot of your days and nights up, but we know it means as much to you as playing music does to us.

Here’s to SceneSC, in whatever form or name, lives on to see many more birthday celebrations.

Blake Arambula
This Machine is Me

Thanks for the shout out, it’s much appreciated. More thanks for helping support and promote our music scene here in SC. It’s a great thing you are doing and appreciated by lots of folks. Take care,

Bentz