Quick tip 17 Get in the business
I know you just want to play music all day long. I know, that’s what I want as well. But I had the choice of keeping music as a hobby, or start treating it as a business. And there lies…
January 27, 2015
Step off the path and make our own
Why do we devalue our selves? I mean we love to put other people on pedestal and worship them. We want to know all about them, try to copy them just in a hopes some of that greatness rubs off…
Quick tip 16 Appreciate your fans
Posted at January 26, 2015 by
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I mentioned before how dangerous it can be to get stuck on numbers. So we spend all our time trying to get more followers on our social media sites. For starters, those numbers mean nothing if you don’t know what…
Quick tip 15 Support act
Posted at January 23, 2015 by
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We all dream about being a support act for some big acts. We feel this would be our big break. Too often the reality is something very different. Remember that scene in “Crazy Heart” (great movie, that portrays the life…
Quick tip14 Instagram
Posted at January 22, 2015 by
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This is quite effective little trick you can do to put text on your Instagram, Twitter or Facebook photos. Download an app called InstaQuote. There is a free version that leaves a small watermark on the picture, or paid version…
Quick tip 13 Facebook
So if you followed my last Facebook quick tip, you should have at least one video uploaded to your Facebook page (not profile, but page). Now here’s a small thing you can do to make it easier for people to…
The Right Time
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Let’s talk about “the right time”. I have heard this over and over again over the years, I even believed this my self for years. “I will release my album and it is going to be a great one, once…
Quick tip 12 Pick the right venue
Posted at January 20, 2015 by
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You have new album coming out and you want to do an album launch show in your home town, or you just haven’t done show in your local scene for a while. So you are thinking to book a venue…
Can we stop turning art into a competition?
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In “the turmoil” of the music business, pretty much everything had to be rethought. The old style of record production just wasn’t viable anymore. Bands don’t go to studio for a year on the record labels expense anymore. The record…
4th of January Blog update
Posted at January 4, 2015 by
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The New year is here and I am back in Dublin. Call me crazy, but my apartment is freezing… I only heat the bedroom and my office when I am recording there. The living room/ kitchen is cold… I live…
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