Music business can be a real labyrinth these days. It’s hard to know if you are doing the right thing, if you are on the right track. It is a good idea to learnt to recognise some warning signs of…
I did an interview earlier today, and at the end of it I was asked if I had any message for the listeners. My message was “smile and be nice.” I can hear many of you shout out how I…
Ups and downs, that’s what my week has been like… But that’s life for you, ups and downs. I must admit though, with age I’ve learned to look at the downs form a little bit different perspective. It is always…
I assume as a musician you have a Facebook page? Not your personal Facebook profile, but a page. If you do, there are few new updates on the way and this particular one I think is great improvement. I know…
Do you ever feel like no one cares about your music, or art? How can you make sure other people get exited about what you do? How can you light up the fire in other people? The answer is much…
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…
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….
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…
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…
We all know professional quality recording done in a high-end studio is expensive business, as is professional quality videos. We look at the major label artists and envy their budgets and dream about doing something similar some day (don’t forget,…
