How I became a songwriter
About ten years ago a good friend of mine Barra McAllister, who by the way is a fantastic musician playing the Irish wooden flute, and I were having a few beers. It was just after returning from a long European…
Author: J.P. Kallio
Quick tip 153 Do the opposite
This one is purely artistic quick tip. I have many artist friends, and family members. Most of these have one thing in common. They all have unique style that they are known for. And to simplify this advice, I will…
On Songwriting 11 The basic tools
I was asked for some advice on songwriting for beginners. So I thought I’d write down few things here to help you get started. I took the long road. When I started to write songs back in my early teens,…
Share love, music and art part 5
I am very exited to share with you some drawings by Italian artist Carlos Ramos. Our paths kind of crossed by accident. Carlos came into the Porterhouse today, where I was playing a session with friends of mine Brian and…
From confused school days to Dublin town
From confused school days to Dublin town School always seemed to be struggle for me. I later found out I was dyslexic, but my teachers failed to pick up on this. I don’t really blame them though. I moved a…
Quick tip 152 Things are hardly ever as bad as they seem
Last week my website went down, due to some server problems. And as Murphy’s law dictates, of course this happened when I had decided to take few days off and I was away from my computer. In the past something…
Trying to find the balance
During the past week and a bit I find my self being pushed deeper and deeper in tho the world of tech, web hosting and especially the back end of it. I know my way around WordPress and the file…
The lessons from a week gone by
It’s one full week of what I call “things gone to shit week.” On Monday, my website went down. To me, my website is like my living room, and now someone is denying access to it, I can only hang…
9th of August Blog update
It is hard to sum up this week in any other way than one of the worst I’ve had since the beginning of this project year and eight months ago. We went from my website being down, to numerous WordPress…
Week of banging my head against the computer screen
As you might or might not know, I’ve been hit with some website trouble this week. Today was the day five trying t get it all sorted, but this problem seems to be getting more mysterious by the minute. I…
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