So neat, but wow is that not the best way of doing something. It's good publicity, but you immediately cut the amount of people who can contact you down to just programmers. Much better to have a basic site with a phone number, email and contact form.
I wrote that and then googled them, to see what they had (http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/). Once again, asking to be contacted through facebook and twitter isn't really ideal, a contact form would be a welcome addition to this page.
Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.
I hadn't, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. Usually bands want to get as many fans and gigs and as much publicity as they can. It seems odd that they would only want programmers as fans, unless they were especially pretentious.
It's a gig band. They play bars and clubs for whatever money they can get from cover charges. Limiting the number of places that can book you is dumb. Plus, its not like they have to book everyone that requests them.
I wrote that and then googled them, to see what they had (http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/). Once again, asking to be contacted through facebook and twitter isn't really ideal, a contact form would be a welcome addition to this page.