De Wallen - The little band from South Africa that could...

De Wallen started out with a big dream of writing badass rock and roll songs and performing them all across the world. It's 7 years, multiple tours 2 album and a lot of shows later and to be honest it's just getting harder.

So with our latest and newest project we decided to go a different route. Our guitarist had been into Crypto trading and told us about this amazing website called Steemit that we could use to first of all reach people all across the world and secondly maybe make some money that could help take some of the strain of us.

We started publishing under the profile @dewallenband. We entered Open mic's, posted stories about our tours, video's of performances etc. We eventually actually did so well that we were able to pay the recording of our up and coming album with only STEEM!!! how crazy is that??? That was unfortunately only the start of things and due to a break in we lost our account and all back-ups. We started posting under the new account called @dewallen. However this has been the most financially demanding project the band has ever faced.

We are planning on taking our album from Cape Town to Gauteng (Both in South Africa) then to the Netherlands and Finally to Germany!!! As this is our first tour of this magnitude we have to pay for everything namely:

The Booking Agent

The Recording, mixing, printing and possibly printing of the album

Printing of merchandise for the album

Flight tickets from Cape Town to Gauteng

Flight tickets from Gauteng to Europe and Back

Our equipment and van hire there

Accommodation

Medical Insurance

Visa's

and lastly day to day and fuel money.

Meet the band:

Pieter - Guitar

Jeandre - Guitar and Vocals

Adriaan "Slenderman" - Drums

Adriaan "Halfies" - Bass

This entire project is panning out to cost about $14000 and in Rands that we use about R200 000. It's a lot of money but it'll be worth it. We will also be having a photographer/videographer with us on tour to film the entire process. Luckily our management @dse have pitched in and offered to pay half of his cost's.

So once again we turn to you the Steemian community, help us set up this tour to the best it could be.

Here follows the original video for our first crowd funding attempt, due to our constrained budget we were not able to re-edit it for Fundition, our apologies.

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