What did you learn today?
In the past few months I have learned an important lesson that I would like to share with you. This is something so obvious, but still most of us don’t think about it at all. It has made me more…
Author: J.P. Kallio
Quick tip 148 Touring tips 5.
Tour budgeting. For starters, you will spend more money on the tour than you think. And the longer the tour is, the more little things like the quality of your hotel room starts to become bigger things. Also it is…
Vlog 6 Tesco’s car park
As you might know, I am home by now, but I still have few updates left from the tour 🙂 This one was filmed on Sunday after Sliotar‘s show at the Keltska Noc festival and captures my thoughts on the…
Quick tip 147 Touring tips 4.
When I started to book our first long tour with Sliotar, I was hungry for the gigs, and didn’t mind the long drives. But as soon as we hit the road, I realised the error in my planning. Scheduling will…
The ups and downs of touring part 2
On the first part of this blog post, I talked about how being on the tour can get quite lonely from time to time, and how this even make people depressed, you can read the first part HERE. Many of…
Quick tip 146 Touring tips 3.
This one goes for festival shows, or band nights, where there are more than one band performing on the night. I watched a band, who’s name I will not mention here, but lets just say they are professional band with years…
The ups and downs of touring
Just so you don’t think it’s all fun and games, I decided to touch on a subject that often gets forgotten about. When you are on tour with a band, there are a lot of highs along the way. Playing…
26th July Blog update
My weeks don’t really get much wilder than during the Sliotar tours. I started the week with a long and sweaty trip from Italy to the Czech republic, where we have been playing shows all week. It has been a…
Relationships are the key to successful touring
I am writing this blog post from the Czech republic. We are with Sliotar at the Keltska Noc festival in Plumlov, in Moravia. I am listening a a wonderful Czech celtic band Poitin playing their set in the background, my…
Quick tip 145 Touring tips 2.
Touring tip number two, allow time for things to go wrong. Where ever you need to be, plan to be there early. I know the extra hour of sleep might sound tempting, but that extra hour might come to bite…
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