Get Your Act Together
If you’re thinking about putting any of the ideas I’ve been writing about recently (or anyone else’s for that matter) to work on your music career, consider whether you’ve already sorted out the first,...
View ArticleWeekly Web Digest 30/08/2009
How to Spot a Bad Deal, from Heather McDonald @ About.com : Music Careers – A run-down of warning signs that the person you’re doing business with is trying to put one over you. A must-read. Digital,...
View ArticleFrom MIDEM: Global Music Study
MIDEM 2010 is underway (that’s Marché International du Disque et de l’Edition Musicale – the music industry conference taking place in Calais, France – if you didn’t know). As always, there’s a lot of...
View ArticleThe Paradise That Should Have Been – Revisited
A while back I wrote a fairly brief post on the kind of per-transaction revenues a self-publishing artist can expect from a number of Web-based legal services. To put matters in perspective, I compared...
View ArticleWorking Together
The Internet has created a number of opportunities and threats, but at the end of the day we all still live in the real world. I’d like to step away from the computer for a moment (figuratively...
View ArticleMore Touring Fallout
Wasn’t so long ago that I wrote about the problems Imogen Heap was experiencing on the road and – wouldn’t you know it – now it seems everyone’s having the same problem. Tours are being curtailled...
View ArticleDeveloping Stage Presence
Below is something I wrote a while back, in answer to the following question posted on the Guitars site @ StackExchange: “How to develop stage presence?” After some thought, I decided it might be worth...
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