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It’s not just bands that work hard, some fans do too! Every issue we shine the spotlight on a fansite. We have now de-
cided to open this up to include Instagram Fan Pages and Facebook Pages and Groups too. If you devote your time to
working on a page to promote a band, let us know about it... and we may feature you!
FANSITE
Name & Location: time 'And Justice which are the most time-consuming pieces of
Claire (+ the Death Punch For None' was re- content to create. Then, whenever a new social
Bear) leased. We helped network comes along you have to go in and

What fansite page do them share photos learn all of the functionality. I’m a perfectionist
and videos of the
and never want to do something half-way so I
you run? posters on social spend a lot of time learning new skills to feed
Five Finger Death Punch FOCUS media to see onto the site to help make it better.
UK Knuckleheads (FFDP whether the fans as
UK for short!) a collective could What is the community for the band like,
track down all of both online and offline? What have you no-
Why and when did you decide to start this? the posters. We even managed to go down to ticed about the FFDP fan community
What is your aim? London to find a few too! But my claim to fame through moderating your pages?
Nine years ago I saw the band perform at Ham- was at Download Festival 2017 when I smug- There is a real sense of community spirit led by
merfest II and was blown away by the perform- gled a union jack flag with the 5FDP logo on it the band that resonates with a lot of the fans
ance so much so that I wanted to join their into the arena. The band took it on stage during which gets mirrored across the various groups
street team to help promote them. The original their set and held it aloft over Donington. I've and fan sites. Like most of the rock and metal
5FDP street team was run through a website seen videos since and the moment scene, what I've
called Fancorps and like many street teams in they raised the flag circle pits noticed is that
the 2000’s, you’d respond to missions, earn stopped and literally the whole of everyone in the
points and sometimes prizes for sharing content Donington was cheering for the 5FDP commu-
on social media. Everyone on the street team FFDP UK flag. I almost died on nity is so friendly
seemed to run their own fansite to promote the the barrier with excitement! They both online and
band. We were late to the party but I couldn't took it offstage with them so I offline whether
find a UK fan page to tag onto so I ended up like to think it's in a rehearsal it's related to the
creating the first Five Finger Death Punch UK space somewhere flying high! band or whether
fan page on Twitter (which was then fairly new) it's someone
to help promote the band to UK fans back in How much time do you spend dealing with a per-
2010. We've been tweeting ever since and have on it? Does it take much time to run? sonal problem in their life. There are always
a presence on pretty much every single social It's very much like a second job. It is a 7 days a loads of people in the online fan community that
media site going now. I would go as far to say week, 365 days a year styled operation. But I will rush in to help and pick them up again.
that 5FDP's music has ac- love every second of it
tually saved my life, so and lose track of the Tell our readers why they should visit your
running FFDP UK feels hours put into it be- site. What's it got? Describe the content on
like giving back to them cause it doesn't feel your site.
in some way. like work. I don't have If you love Five Finger Death Punch and need
a set amount of time to talk with people who understand how much
Does the band know I work on FFDP UK. It the band mean to you and love their music just
about it? could be anything as much as you do, please check out our site
Yes! Some of the band from a 10 minute In- and say hello. We strive to bring reliable content
members follow our so- stagram blitz before that we hope keeps people informed about the
cial media sites and have work in the morning band and all of the latest developments, so we
shared our content on to an entire 18hr have everything on our social media pages
their official pages which is always really cool! I weekend on it. Around the times of tours and from tour dates and release news through to the
really hope they like what we're doing on our releases, the hours definitely increase. Be- latest interviews, videos, photos and magazine
site. Our fan page also has a mascot teddy bear cause we're in the UK and the band is on the clippings. We are basically the BBC for Five
called the Death Punch Bear and he once got West Coast of America the most time-consum- Finger Death Punch news stories. We just
shared on the main 5FDP social media sites to ing and challenging part is the time difference. launched a new website so please check it out.
millions of people. FFDP UK has also been Quite often the latest news breaks in the early We’re hoping to introduce more fan-led features
cited on the metal news sites Loudwire and hours for the UK so you're constantly playing on it very soon to make it even more of a fan
Metalsucks and tons of other 'zines and radio catch up to stay on track with what's happening. hub and 5FDP resource - so expect upgrades
station websites which blows my mind! Last There is no budget for the site like a real busi- and new content in the near future.
year, the band's record label, Eleven Seven, ness would have so we have to figure out how
launched a really creative album poster cam- to do everything ourselves from social media Website link:
paign on the London Underground around the graphics to website design, to video editing, www.fivefingerdeathpunch.co.uk

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vegans love them too. It’s a win-win. The only person who wasn’t so keen was Piers Morgan
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portunity. They’re only £1. Even our meat-eating proofreader Ian tried one and loved it -
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