On Songwriting Part 5
Never miss an opportunity to write songs while you are traveling. We all know the phrase “Traveling broadens the mind”. You are forced to look at things in a different way while you are traveling, so why not utilise this…
December 30, 2014
Inflight bloating
It was another early morning again, Dublin airport twenty past seven. Flights have become a bit of a routine for me as I fly a lot. But there has been one thing that has been bothering me more and more…
10th of August Blog update
Posted at August 8, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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As you might have noticed, I revved up my blog posting in the past month or so. It’s been personal challenge. But as always the thought of churning out six blog posts a week sounds much more daunting than it…
How to tour abroad with your band part 3
In 2006 Sliotar set out on our very first European tour that we organised ourselves. We performed in France, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It was over six-week tour that took us from Atlantic coast to…
3rd of August blog update
Posted at August 3, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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I am writing this blog update in a hotel room in Brno, but by the time it come’s out I will be in Austria, the morning after our last show of Sliotar‘s 2014 Summer tour and a day before I…
28th of July Blog update
Posted at July 28, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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This post comes to you a bit later than usual. I’ve spent the past weekend at the Keltska Noc festival with Sliotar in the Czech Republic. Even though there is Wifi here, it was not very good during the festival…
The best pizza in the world
It is thirty-three degrees outside, I’m sitting in a small town bar in the North of Italy. Cold Prosecco is keeping me cool. The non stop lotto is on TV. Luca is just after putting on a bet for us….
How to tour abroad with your band part 2
Posted at July 8, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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In 2005 I was sitting on a porch of a rough wooden cabin with my band mates Des and Ray from Sliotar. We were on the festival grounds of Keltska Noc festival in the Czech republic, where we were going…
How to tour abroad with your band
Posted at June 3, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Music promotion
Most of us musicians live for the live show. And the idea of touring is the real dream. Especially if we get to do it abroad. Something magical about the idea of playing a different county, to a new crowd…
April 24th past weeks posts
Posted at April 24, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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Ok it seems my website have been growing, one blog post at the time 🙂 So I decided to simplify things a bit. I’ll try to post an update blog post with links to the past weeks, or so posts…
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