8th of March Blog update
My mother has been visiting me for the past week. It has been great to have her here 🙂 It was also a great opportunity for me to take few days off and take her around Dublin as well as…
March 8, 2015
Quick tip 45 Twitter DM
Posted at March 6, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
Today’s Quick tip is all about using Twitter’s Direct Message (Also known as DM) to promote your music. I’m sure some of you will have a critical view of this, but then again if us musicians stayed away from everything…
No. 1 Giveaway of an amateur band
Posted at March 5, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Music promotion
I talked about this before, and I will end up talking about this again in the future, I am sure of that. From time to time bands and musicians ask me directly for advice. The advice they seek can be…
Quick tip 43 Playing in a new venue
Posted at March 4, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
I have a check list I go through every time I play in a new venue. First impressions are very important and especially when you are trying to build a new working relationship. This list is especially relevant to Dublin…
Accidental rejuvenation
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J.P. Kallio
in Rambles
I’m sitting at the airport waiting my mom to come through the arrival gates. She is coming to visit her oldest son in Ireland. We don’t see each other’s as much as we should, but it’s a two-way street. I…
Quick tip 41 Do it your self
Posted at March 2, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
Most musicians suffer from the “next level” syndrome. We want to find a manager, promoter, booking agent, PR company, record label to take us to the “next level”. Most of us don’t even know what that next level is… The…
1st of March Blog update
Posted at March 1, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
It feels bit surreal writing “March” in the tittle… But what a start to the year we have had. This week I finally finished the recording and mastering of my new album. I decided to delay the launch after all…
Dear Spotify (and other music services)
Dear Spotify (and other music services, but for the rest of the article I’ll just mention Spotify just to simplify things), I am a converted fan. I am a full-time musician, so when it comes to my music, I need…
Quick tip 40 Finding fans
Posted at February 27, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
In the world we live in today, where we socialize online as much, if not even more than in the “real life” it never stops amazing me how artists still expect people to find them. We just assume that as…
Attack is the worst defence
Posted at February 26, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Music promotion
What internet has done to us musicians, is given us a platform where with some great tools and a smart plan we can introduce our music to worldwide audience extremely fast. We can upload music online. In the past we…
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