17th of August Blog update
It is the early hours of Sunday morning. I’m back from The Porterhouse, where I was playing a show with Sliotar. It was a great show and I’m still buzzing from it 🙂 So instead of laying in bed wide…
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This Town
This week’s song “This Town” is number eight on the new album. Wow! Time just seems to be flying by so fast. Before I get into the story of this weeks song, let me just once again say a massive…
The desperate need to please everyone
Us musicians are a funny bunch. On the outside we are big egos, pumping out testosterone (even the girls). Remember that scene in the movie anchorman? Where Will Ferrell stands on front of the mirror and shouts “Hey everyone, come…
10th of August Blog update
Posted at August 8, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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As you might have noticed, I revved up my blog posting in the past month or so. It’s been personal challenge. But as always the thought of churning out six blog posts a week sounds much more daunting than it…
10 reasons to give up on your art
I used the word art here as this apply as much to music as to any other form of art. We work hard and time to time it feels like it’s all for nothing. My general advice at this point…
Music as a skilled trade
Posted at August 6, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts ⋅ Music promotion ⋅ Rambles ⋅ Singer-Songwriter
Even in 2014 you come across the stereotype of people not seeing music as a valid career choice. I was told by my extended family back in my school days, that music was never going to be a career. Even…
How to tour abroad with your band part 3
In 2006 Sliotar set out on our very first European tour that we organised ourselves. We performed in France, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It was over six-week tour that took us from Atlantic coast to…
3rd of August blog update
Posted at August 3, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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I am writing this blog update in a hotel room in Brno, but by the time it come’s out I will be in Austria, the morning after our last show of Sliotar‘s 2014 Summer tour and a day before I…
Only Son
It’s been 18 years this summer since I left Finland behind and moved over to Ireland. Dublin has been my home since then and it has had a very definitive effect in whom I have grown out to be. I…
Small things in life
There are days when the simplest things are the best things in the world. I was sitting in the Restaurant Stoleti with my band mate Ray. Cool Czech beer and meat broth. It had been a crazy week. Bundan Celtic…
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