I was watching the final of Eurovision song contest and congratulations Portugal. Still is this the best we have in songwriting? It feels like in the 90: s when the Ice Hockey championship was held. Since the timing of the

Continue ReadingEurovison song fail.

I’m still looking for artists. Well we always do but right now it’s for a special reason. Okey we have many demos in the pile so there might be something there. Still it’s so many that don’t fit in. I

Continue ReadingThe new gap.

When you work with bands you get this piece of problem quite often. The whole things should work like a collective mind. In reality the most successful bands usually has divided the work tasks to different members in the band.

Continue ReadingWe against the world, collective thinking.

I get these messages from time to time that people always think there is a backdoor to everything. Right now it was for a showcase festival abroad where we had booked bands before. Suddenly people think that we know a

Continue ReadingThere is no back door.

Since I look on a career as a long distance running, it’s about endurance. Still when it comes to some part of the race you really have to strengthen and run faster for a couple of miles. Can you handle

Continue ReadingCan you handle the pressure?

I have just going through 46 blogs, 25 newspapers and 13 radio stations on a Saturday morning. All because The Magnettes and Royal Prospect are playing on Youbloom in Dublin, Ireland first week in June. Also The Magnettes is playing

Continue ReadingThe ground work you forget.

No they actually sees you, the thing is that they just don’t know what to do with your talent right now. I was that person last night, was visiting a talent show in Stockholm. I meet some business persons that

Continue ReadingJust keep going on.

I saw this quote from one of my hero in the record industry in Sweden Ola Håkansson saying. A good song needs the right timing and everything else would fall into place. It’s totally right, or should I say it

Continue ReadingThe way we listen has changed.

I was surfing around and some new band pages and was struck how bad these pages are maintained. Okey if the artist has a personal page, there it’s all fun and games. A lot of interaction and good stories. As

Continue ReadingIt’s called social media for a reason, even for artists.

I’m sitting and sending out the new album for a band to get reviews. The problem today with this new single driven world we live in is that is it really necessary? I know that the reviews many times are

Continue ReadingThe death of the review