Music as a skilled trade
Even in 2014 you come across the stereotype of people not seeing music as a valid career choice. I was told by my extended family back in my school days, that music was never going to be a career. Even…
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How to tour abroad with your band part 3
In 2006 Sliotar set out on our very first European tour that we organised ourselves. We performed in France, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It was over six-week tour that took us from Atlantic coast to…
3rd of August blog update
Posted at August 3, 2014 by
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I am writing this blog update in a hotel room in Brno, but by the time it come’s out I will be in Austria, the morning after our last show of Sliotar‘s 2014 Summer tour and a day before I…
Only Son
It’s been 18 years this summer since I left Finland behind and moved over to Ireland. Dublin has been my home since then and it has had a very definitive effect in whom I have grown out to be. I…
Small things in life
There are days when the simplest things are the best things in the world. I was sitting in the Restaurant Stoleti with my band mate Ray. Cool Czech beer and meat broth. It had been a crazy week. Bundan Celtic…
28th of July Blog update
Posted at July 28, 2014 by
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This post comes to you a bit later than usual. I’ve spent the past weekend at the Keltska Noc festival with Sliotar in the Czech Republic. Even though there is Wifi here, it was not very good during the festival…
The Importance of Failure
I wrote a post on “Why do we fail” awhile back. This got me thinking of failure bit more and this started the digestive process in my head which often leads to these blog posts. In the traditional sense we…
What would you do?
What would you do to get ahead in the music business? Would you sell your mother? Of course not! Would you let your friends down? You probably have and will do again. By this I mean most of us musicians…
13th of July Blog update
Posted at July 12, 2014 by
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Things have been bit hectic in the past few weeks. I’ve been playing six days a week for the past few months, releasing a song a week, writing several blog posts a week and so forth. So getting around to…
Take a break before you break (or burn your toaster)
Sometimes life throws obstacles on our path. Sometimes they are big, sometimes just small. There is no avoiding this. You can plan ahead and predict some of them, but still there are some that you just have no control over….
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