5th of April Blog update
This week my fifth album “After the Storm” came out. It was bit hard to take in as I have been working flat-out. But at the end of this week, I managed to take few days off and head down…
April 5, 2015
Quick tip 65 CD’s
Posted at April 3, 2015 by
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We all have heard the news, CD’s are on the way out. The good old record shops are struggling. Those magical plastic discs we were told you could even wash when they first came out seem to be heading for…
Quick tip 64 Promotion v spam
Posted at April 2, 2015 by
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Here’s a quick one that so many musicians and bands still get wrong. There is nothing wrong in reaching out to people online. In fact, you need to do this to build your following. But as with everything, first impressions…
Don’t do as I do
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I have no problem saying I have gone on bit of a promotional over drive in certain aspects of my career. It is hard work to get your head above to noise and make your voice heard in the music…
Quick tip 62 Business relationships
Posted at March 31, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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In the world we live in these days, you can buy publicity to certain extent. You can hire a company to spread your music around the place. But at the same time, you get what you pay for. Some of…
Are you serious about career? Act like it!
Posted at March 30, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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If you are a musician you often work in a bar and many of your friends work in a bar. Yep there are wild nights out. It is a hard-working environment, and when you work hard, you play hard. But…
29th of March Blog update
Posted at March 29, 2015 by
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This week we had the first promise of spring, followed by a hail stone storm here in Dublin. You know that time of the year when you don’t know which jacket to put on 😀 But I also had a…
Quick tip 60 Change something
Posted at March 27, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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When you work hard, it is too easy to get stuck in a routine. You do task for the sake of doing tasks instead of concentrating on the goal. I am guilty of this often. But I am also becoming…
Quick tip 59 Tell them about it
Posted at March 26, 2015 by
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Remember the line in “If you build it, they will come” from a Kevin Costner film Field of dreams? This mentality in music business is a sure way to set your self to fail. There are endless mounts of wanna…
Hangover
I was asked to write this blog post (half jokingly) by a good friend of mine. The purpose here is to bring down some of the preconceptions about musicians. As I write this I am “recovering” from a night out….
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