Indie Music Industry – Why Be Independent?-With the major labels focusing on quick returns rather than artist development and the advent of downloading music online, the traditional record company/artist relationship has become blurred to the point of being obsolete.
Nowadays, being independent has real advantages.
How many times have you heard or read somewhere that the internet [...]
Indie Music Band – Getting Band Members-(For the purpose of this article I am going to make a couple of assumptions before I go any further. They are that you have a little bit of vocal or musical instrument knowledge and that you also have a fledgling network of friends and contacts)
Starting up a band [...]
Indie Music Industry – Believe in Yourself-I have been doing this music caper for twenty years.
However, I have only believed in myself for the past five years and in that time I have achieved much more than the fifteen years preceding it.
I don’t remember that moment when I finally climbed up the top of the [...]
Indie Music Band – Naming Your Band-Most people would say the first thing to do is to find a name for the band. Lets start from there shall we??
The auditions are over, you have found your bass player and you all seem to get along really well. The excitement is in the air and you [...]
Indie Music Industry – Converting People Into Fans-I help run an acoustic music night at a local pub in every Wednesday night and I notice that attendences go up or down depending on a whole range of things. Who is playing, the weather and so on.
Lately though, I have been thinking about how people can [...]
Indie Music Industry – Focus on the Quality Gigs-I’m not sure what the indie music business is like in the US, Canada or the UK in regards to playing gigs but I know in Australia we still have venues that pay guarantees for bands to play.
This is great because you know exactly how much you [...]
Indie Music Industry – It’s All About Community-We live in a world that is losing its sense of community.
The individual (at the moment) is cherished way above the endeavours of the collective group.
Now, while I believe that individual and group efforts are important I believe that the balance between the two is very one sided. [...]
Indie Music Industry – Know Your Local Scene-Here is probably the most important music industry tip you will ever receive:
“Join up and subscribe to every indie music industry and DIY band promotion email list, newsletter and resource that you can get your hands on and read everything that you receive”.
I mean it when I say [...]
Indie Music Industry – The Power of Networking-Having a lot of people that know who you are is always a benefit and not a hindrance.
Just the other day I got a call from someone who wanted to find out if I was available to play bass with their band. I declined due to not having [...]
Indie Music Industry – It’s All in the Planning-I have met a lot of musicians along my journey and some of those I have gotten to know pretty well. All of them have a similar story as to how they started in the music industry and it goes a bit like this.
“I don’t know how [...]