Winter Months
Winter Months by J.P. Kallio This weeks song “Winter Months” kind of deals with two things. First of all there is the constant struggle off a musician, that raises its head all the time. As a musician playing live shows…
October 30, 2015
Quick tip 209 Make noise
As an artist we tend to think in terms of getting signed to a label or getting a manager as smoking of starting block in the business. It’s like we are not in the business until we have been validated…
Here is why I will have my bacon
When World Health Organisation releases a report on cancer related subjects the world listens. They are just after putting “processed meat” into same risk category as cigarettes and asbestos. They also rated red meat as “probable” carcinogenic. When the news…
Quick tip 208 Go off the topic
No body wants to hear you scream about your new album over and over again. It’s fine, we know you are exited about it and at the same time scared as the sales figures are not going through the roof….
Vlog 10 Coffee beans
Few people asked me this in the past few weeks, so I thought to share it on a new Vlog. I’ll talk you through my favourite coffee beans and my everyday beans. I’ll also talk about the one thing I…
Quick tip 207 Don’t trust everything you read
A completely unrelated issue making big news this week got me thinking about how easily we read something and take it for a fact. Newspapers were always in the business of selling ad space and shifting units, the importance of…
On songwriting part 13 Visualise your story
Would you like to be able to tell more visual story in your song? Bob Dylan is a master at painting pictures with words. But also as we study his work inevitably we end up trying to replicate something similar,…
Quick tip 206 Wix sites not indexed by Google
I preach regularly about the importance of artists and bands having their own websites. I also exclusively recommend using WordPress(.org) based websites. I know many bands are tempted by the easy setup of platforms like Wix, but these platforms have their…
Happy Monday
Today I am in transit. Even though Poland is not that far away from Ireland still the trip takes about half a day. Once again it is time for goodbyes, but lucky enough this time there is only few months…
25th of October Blog update
I was standing outside a massive DIY store on Friday. The wind was blowing dry autumn leaves around the car park in circles, and I was fixated on the scraping sound of the leaves. It was an autumn sound I…
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