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    12 Apr, 2019
    The obvious mistakes
    artist friendly, mistakes

    It’s hard to get an audience. No shit Sherlock! To get an audience you need to be good. This is the ground for everything. Either you are really really bad or really really good, in between you are totally lost. The

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    16 Jan, 2019
    Know what people do!
    mistakes, slow

    I guess this has been up before. But it was so obvious today. I got a demo submission from an artist wanting me to spread her music and get her gigs. That is two different roles in the industry. And really none is

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    30 Nov, 2018
    The small details
    details, mistakes

    I’m back with the details, I know I have been writing around them before. To many artist has to much focus on details in stead of the whole picture. Today it was  a guy totally obsessed if it should be

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    6 Aug, 2018
    Another demo review!
    demo, mean, mistakes, reviews

    Okay, last time I had a demo review it was on the worst kind and funny. I just got one that is more the normal stuff, but I guess it’s interesting how we react to different things that the artist think we should

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    26 Jul, 2018
    Don’t piss on the sponsor!
    mistakes, Personal, sponsors

    This problem is usually one of the major headaches I have as a manager. I almost see it happens with every artist I work with. And many times I even got myself treated this way. A kind person wants to help a band and

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    28 Feb, 2018
    The wrong answer!
    mistakes, Personal

    A bit of a continue on yesterdays blog post. I give someone an advice. You really have a conversation about it for at least an hour. Let’s take an example. A band that I work with comes up with the brilliant idea

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    25 Aug, 2017
    Save you from the DIY mistakes!
    diy, mistakes, pro, Tips for artists

    One of the biggest reasons that DIY (Do it yourself) will not work is when I look back on all the times I have to save artists from making total asses of themselves. Most of the situations are about that

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    24 Jul, 2017
    I don’t care what you old bass players name is.
    demo week, demos, mistakes, music, presentation, send demo, Tips for artists

    Yes, we are in the demo week on the blog. Taking out issues that we see from the demos we got in. Since I had several friends over drinking beer listening on demos I also got the most comments on

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    18 May, 2017
    There is no point to surprise
    Managers, mistakes, Tips for artists

    We are in the studio right now so we don’t take gigs, we wait until we have the whole package to deliver and the right time. Quoted from a manager that clearly don’t know what they are doing. If you

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