Welcome back, I know it’s been a minute since an upload. But, we are back this week with Brandon from Tral Productions. Let’s dig in!
How did you get started on your journey? My Journey starts back when I was very young, making YouTube videos on a camcorder recording my TV. It was a great time back in the day and I wish I was still that good at call of duty! I made videos like that for years until I got into graphic design where I made backgrounds for YouTube channels and then did that for years, until I ran across the music scene. I finally got a professional camera and started shooting rap videos for some high school friends. This eventually brought me to an event put on by Glu3 Inc and they had an amazing sentiment behind their brand of “glue the world together”. I kept going back to their rap/rock/EDM shows and have been to every one since. That’s where I met some awesome people like CIRE and Lord Monk who this year I decided I needed to put on a show for them to play at! Along with some friends from high school and friends I’ve made to help me bring it all together.
What would you say have been some of your biggest hurdles along the way? Along with some of your biggest successes?
The biggest hurdles I have faced through this is understanding how deep into the scene I have gotten. I ended up promoting the event by joining Elektricity's promo team and ended up making friends with a ton of people in the scene, now I’m working with some of the biggest event promoters in Michigan!
You’ve just thrown your first event – Forever Friends Festival – how did you come up with this idea and could you tell the readers a bit of your planning process/setup?
The idea just came up through wanting to give my friends a platform to play music! Through them, I was able to source a location (that did change at one point), a DJ controller, and lights and speakers all through the wonderful DJ’s I was working with.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I don’t know, hopefully touring with a DJ I’m managing or even putting on proper festivals with multiple stages and several days of hanging out with the homies!
Any special projects coming up the future you’d like to give a little hint at?
Nothing crazy yet! But I hope to do another show sometime in the spring. But catch me all of the metro Detroit area at all sorts of shows and raves.
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