Discipline
Being an artist, and even more so, being a solo artist makes you entrepreneur. I know many musicians who would be squeamish of the term, or it would make them run a mile straight away. It’s actually funny how things…
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Ego getting on the way of your music career
A While back I was talking to a friend of mine, who will stay anonymous. He has a band, kind of early nineties style prog rock. He told me that they were going to record an album. Now they had…
Perfection v Progress
“When we focus on perfection, we will be forever frustrated. When we focus on progress, we feel invigorated.” -Jeff Shore I have seen so many great albums and musical projects failed just because they concentrated on perfection, instead of progress….
The night before the morning after
Posted at March 25, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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It is the evening before “the day”. I am feeling lot’s of things wright now. I am sitting on my bed in a dark room, just the screen of the computer giving me light. My very first solo album is…
Independent musicians most powerful tool
As an independent musician what is the most powerful tool, or character in this case that you need? You might sit there on the edge of your seat waiting me to pass you the Holy Grail of music promotion, the…
Dream big, work smart method in Music Business
So many years I wasted dreaming about “the big time” in my music career. Dreams are great, without them life would be… well just flat… But every time I tried to take steps towards my dreams I tried to jump…
Traditional Irish music and pineapples
For the past few days I got to play some trad sessions with good friends of mine. I wrote a blog post about the Irish Music Sessions in Temple Bar, where I live. Check it out and you know how…
Traditional Irish Session in Temple Bar
So some of you here have come to know me as a singer songwriter, some of you might know me from Irish folk band Sliotar or some of you might know me from the punk band Boneyard Bastards. Some of…
Video shoot
Posted at March 4, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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Today was a good day 🙂 As an artist you have ideas and “visions” going through your head all the time. Today I took the first step to make one of mine happen. In The Porterhouse, where I play with…
Us Against The World
The Northern Boy went on Pre-Sale on iTunes this week. Suddenly everything feels a bit more real 😀 the way the Pre-Sale works, is that you pay a discounted price, and get the tracks on the release date, 25th of…
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