Stop making excuses, start doing the work. Stop looking for a booking agent, start booking gigs. Stop looking for a record deal, start recording music. Stop searching for perfection, put out more content. Stop looking for short cuts, start taking…
Vlog 291 How to become a musician Here is something I get asked weekly, if not even daily. So I thought we better have a proper chat about the subject 😉 If you ever wondered what does it take in…
Vlog 241 If all else fails, have Twirl and coffee In today’s vlog I am having a lazy start to the week 🙂 Me and Brian talk about what we would call “prima donnas” in the music business, especially when…
We do what we have been told. We do what we have seen others do. We walk the path that others took many years a go. We follow the old signs. We dream of a success that only very few…
We all fall from time to time. Learning, or mastering a new skill is hard. To survive in todays music business you need to learn new skill over and over again every day. It is not the ones who came…
New year is a perfect opportunity to clean the slate of all the crap we ended up carrying with us the year before. Figure out what works, what does not and what you should concentrate your efforts on. I know…
I think very few people getting in the music business actually have a realistic idea what is ahead of them. We can thank the media and the major labels for feeding us an illusion where we think all we need…
Music business is full of obstacles. Things will go wrong, things will seem hard, sometimes nearly impossible. Not a week goes by I don’t hit another dead-end. Not a single tour goes by where something don’t go wrong. Flights get…
So you have had some success. You have toured the world a bit. You get recognised from time to time when you walk down the street. You feel like you have made it. You feel like you are someone. Us…
It’s time for some hard love. You want to be a musician, you want to make living playing music. You want to record albums, play live shows, tour the world and… Well you know what I mean… So, get to…
