Mental endurance in music business
Back in the late nineties I was playing in a band, that was making waves locally. We had a residency here in Dublin, and it was pretty much packed night after night. We crowd sourced our first album well, by…
September 29, 2015
Cold Ground
Cold Ground by J.P. Kallio Deep down we all look for acceptance and validation. We all have that one person in our life who we look up to. Someone who’s opinion matter to us. This can be a mentor, a…
Right place, wrong time
Yesterday I was having a dinner in a restaurant I the Ischia Porto. We went to a restaurant recommended to us by the staff in our B&B we are staying in. It was a lovely seafood restaurant, right next to…
Automation
It’s another sunny day in the beautiful island of Ischia. I am drinking my morning coffee overlooking the bay of Napoli. Down below Ischia Porto goes about its daily business. Even though I am high up on a hill, the…
On songwriting 12 Why do you write songs?
One of the big benefits of taking time off, is the time to reflect. Time to take distance from everything you do and kind of look at it with a fresh eyes. When I set out to write 52 songs…
Love is what we need
Love Is What We Need by J.P. Kallio In the past week the world watched horrified at the picture of a three-year old Aylan Kurdi washed up on the beach in Turkey. He came from Kobani, in Syria, which has…
Quick tip 174 Show me the money
Don’t pay for any service that asks for advance payment. There I said it! There are too many cowboys out there in the music business waiting to take your money and run, or do a half ass job. I know…
Involve your audience in your story
The regular readers here know I can sometimes take the long road to get to the point 😀 So strap your self in, here we go again. I was reading an article on how Twitters shares dropped earlier in the…
Quick tip 173 Be fearless
I am not going to pretend that it is easy. And it might take a long time before you get a hang of it. So you might as well start today, as life will not wait around for the stars…
Modern-day bard
I write songs all the time, that’s no secret anymore. Along the way I have been asked several times how can I write so much. Well, you see, as I mentioned so many times before, a lot of it has…
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