Quick tip 148 Touring tips 5.
Tour budgeting. For starters, you will spend more money on the tour than you think. And the longer the tour is, the more little things like the quality of your hotel room starts to become bigger things. Also it is…
July 29, 2015
Vlog 6 Tesco’s car park
As you might know, I am home by now, but I still have few updates left from the tour 🙂 This one was filmed on Sunday after Sliotar‘s show at the Keltska Noc festival and captures my thoughts on the…
The ups and downs of touring part 2
On the first part of this blog post, I talked about how being on the tour can get quite lonely from time to time, and how this even make people depressed, you can read the first part HERE. Many of…
Quick tip 146 Touring tips 3.
This one goes for festival shows, or band nights, where there are more than one band performing on the night. I watched a band, who’s name I will not mention here, but lets just say they are professional band with years…
The ups and downs of touring
Just so you don’t think it’s all fun and games, I decided to touch on a subject that often gets forgotten about. When you are on tour with a band, there are a lot of highs along the way. Playing…
26th July Blog update
My weeks don’t really get much wilder than during the Sliotar tours. I started the week with a long and sweaty trip from Italy to the Czech republic, where we have been playing shows all week. It has been a…
Quick tip 145 Touring tips 2.
Touring tip number two, allow time for things to go wrong. Where ever you need to be, plan to be there early. I know the extra hour of sleep might sound tempting, but that extra hour might come to bite…
Annie’s lament
Annie’s Lament by J.P. Kallio Few weeks back someone contacted me over Twitter asking if I could write a song about laundromat. Obviously I was bit confused, but it turned out she was a film maker and she has a…
Quick tip 144 Touring tips
Right so, as you might know I am on tour with Sliotar at the moment. And I thought it might be time to give some touring tips for those of you embarking on your first tour. I’ll be posting these…
Vlog 5. Plzen
Here’s my tour update from Plzen. I filmed this before the show, so let me just say, the show itself was fantastic 🙂 Plzen is a great town, with a lot of beer history and probably the toughest place for…
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