So, you’ve got your hit songs, you’ve sorted your image and you’re ready to tell the world about what an amazing musician you are – but where do you start?

This quick guide will give you a few useful starting points for promoting your music online! Read the rest of this entry »

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A lot of musicians find themselves out of pocket, wishing they could profit from their talents.

While the conventional route of becoming a famous musician in the charts is a difficult one to profit from, there are several other methods you can try that are perhaps less conventional!

Here are 5 of those methods you might want to look into…  Read the rest of this entry »

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

The music industry has undergone a veritable revolution in the past couple of decades.

No longer is the power to reach a global audience in the hands of a few rich CEOs.   No longer is the technology to record your music to a professional level out of the reach of your common household musician.

Things have become a lot easier in many ways to make your music and get it out there.   This article will compare major labels to indie labels – Professional versus DIY – and see how things match up with the technology available today.

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This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Do you remember the days before the internet?   Dark times, where people ran amok in the streets and the term “Be Kind, Rewind” was more than just a Jack Black comedy?

The only way people could get their fix of music at home short of playing it themselves was from CDs (or Tapes and Vinyl if you’re old school).   But then the World Wide Web came along and changed that…

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Recently, my band You and What Army supported the band Hadouken - a band that’s huge over here in England and is on Major Record Label Atlantic records – Check it out:

While I was there I learned quite a lot…

Before the show

Prepare Yourself

Do some excercise to prepare your body for running around (If you’re not going to perform to the people then they’re not going to remember you.   At a live show it is NOT all about the music, that’s the CD.)   Eat healthily so you’re in even better shape.   Organise extra practices and in general just keep on top of things.   Make sure you leave NOTHING until the last minute.   There will always be things that crop up that will take up your time – if you’ve dealt with everything you can deal with, then you can’t say you didn’t do your best to prepare.

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Struggling to find a decent layout to go with your brand spanking new myspace profile 2.0? Let me help you out with a few choice links…

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