Vlog 143 Tour booking
This is the side of my work that I probably like the least. I have been taking care of Sliotar’s tour bookings for about 15 years now. It never gets easier… I am lucky to have Des taking care of…
April 6, 2016
Vlog 18 The morning after the Paris attacks
So this is the last part of my last weekends short trip to Germany. It was the morning after we heard about the Paris attacks. As I mentioned before, I only heard about the attacks late at night coming back…
What would you sacrifice to be able to have your dream job?
It’s a Saturday afternoon here in Dublin and I have been twiddling my thumbs for the past half an hour 😀 The morning was glorious and I made the most of it by going for a two-hour walk. Then after…
The price we gladly pay
What are you willing to do to get to play a great show? I remember back in 2006 Sliotar heading out on a tour. We were all exited, we had some great shows booked across Europe. We knew it was…
Assumption
Assuming something is certain way can be a dangerous thing. Why do we assume? Because someone said so? Do we trust that person? Or maybe you found the information online? Do you trust the source? When you go to your…
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…
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…
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…
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