Be true to yourself
When you start any kind of entrepreneurial business and if you take your career in music seriously, yes this means you as well, things will be tough. And often you are forced to pay so much attention on the finances,…
October 22, 2014
The Value of music
In the twenty first century music distribution and consumption has gone through changes that would have been unthinkable in the past. At the beginning of the last decade of the last century I remember saving money to be able to…
19th of October Blog update
Posted at October 19, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
Another week in the bag! I’ve been feeling the pressures of my self set project or recording 52 songs in 52 weeks more this week than ever before, so the week 42 was the one that finally decided to test…
You and I
It’s late on Thursday night here in Dublin as write this. The rain is beating on the window. It is not very inspiring day for a night walk, I can tell you. I am after spending a long day in…
On Songwriting Part 3
Posted at October 16, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Songwriting
Back in June I wrote a few blog posts on songwriting and as this is something ongoing in my life, I thought to make these posts semi-regular feature on the blog. Songwriting should be something you are working on all…
Another free song
Most of you know by now I offer two free songs for anyone who sign up for my mailing list. Well I decided to add one more song to the mix 🙂 Bit over a month ago I recorded a…
Irish Water Charge Issue
Posted at October 14, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Rambles
I know the international press finally picked up on the fight brewing in Ireland. The Irish government has been very happy to keep this subject quiet as long as possible, but on Saturday the 11th of October 2014, the people…
Talent is overrated
Talent is overrated. Or let me rephrase that, talent is miss understood. To say someone is talented at something which at the end of the day is a learned skill, sounds like excuse for someone else not put in the…
12th of October Blog update
Posted at October 12, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
It’s been a good week for me 🙂 I got to play some nice music with my friends, got all of my blog posts out in time :-D, finished recording few more songs for the next album and actually managed…
No Safe Bets
Posted at October 10, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Songs
The weather in Dublin has definitely kicked into a winter mode, as they say here “sunny spells and scattered showers”. That means four seasons in one day. But there is something is like about this time of the year as…
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