2nd August Blog update
The first week back home flew by. It seems to be unavoidable occurrence being hit by a workload every time I hit the runway at the Dublin airport 😀 But hey, I love my job. Still I could do with…
Author: J.P. Kallio
Choosing a WordPress theme for your band website and blog
OK I’ll apologise in advance for the rant… But I’ve just been through about 200 WordPress themes aimed at blogs. I have a problem with every one of them… I run what I would call reasonably successful blog. I also…
Quick tip 150 Be stubborn
As from the tittle you can see, this is my music business Quick tip number 150. It is also 609th blog post on my website. And earlier today I released my 85th song (you can check it out HERE) in…
No one said it was easy
No one said it was easy by J.P. Kallio When we think of relationships dying, we often think of bad break ups, big fights, plates smashing. But as often as that is the case, also many relationships die a long drawn…
Quick tip 149 Be authentic
Ever heard the expression “fake it until you make it?” This is something you should forget about in the music business. Trying to bluff it won’t get you far. People in the business have seen it all over and over…
What did you learn today?
In the past few months I have learned an important lesson that I would like to share with you. This is something so obvious, but still most of us don’t think about it at all. It has made me more…
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…
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…
Quick tip 147 Touring tips 4.
When I started to book our first long tour with Sliotar, I was hungry for the gigs, and didn’t mind the long drives. But as soon as we hit the road, I realised the error in my planning. Scheduling will…
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…
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