Archive for August, 2008
Posted on August 31, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Music Marketing, Promotion, Radio, Songwriting, TV, artist, gigs, music fans, new zealand, newspaper, performer, pr | Tags: alt tv, auckland, band, cockney, door charge, fan base, juice tv, Live Music, london, luigi cappel, mini posters, mtv, music fans, music forte, music promotion, music tour, new zealand, patois, pr, product promotion, radio station, Raglan, Raglan beach, raglan rain, red bull, similar artists, songwriter, Songwriting, speights, target market, where do fans live |
Following on from yesterday, I wanted to cover a few more ideas, because first of all it is about the song, but someone has to hear it and if you know who is going to like your music, then you can influence the chance that they will find it.
So here are some more questions to [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Music Marketing, New Media, Promotion, Songwriting, artist, gigs, itunes, music fans, new zealand, news media, performer, podcasting, songwriting information | Tags: auckland, christian music, death metal, fan base, itunes, jazz fusion, luigi cappel, Music, music fans, music magazines, music stores, music upload, new zealand, podcasts, similar music, songwriter, Songwriting, sounds like |
There is a market for every kind of music and it is important to know who your market is, whether as a songwriter or performer. You need to know who they are so you can plan your approach as to how to target them.
What is their age group, are they tweens, teenagers, young adults, old [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Songwriting, artist, daughter, father, marriage ceremony, musical gift, new zealand, performer, songwriting information, wedding, wedding gift | Tags: blog, dad, daddy, daddy's girl, daughter, father, father of the bride, gift for daughter, gift from heart, give daughter away, music slide show, musical gift, photo slide show, slide show, song gift, song slide show, songwriter, special daughter, special gift, special girl, walk down the aisle, watch me daddy, wedding gift, youtube |
On my other blog, I wrote about my song Watch Me Daddy and how the song came about. I actually wrote it on the wrong blog, so if you are interested you can read it there. I noted that lots of people found that blog when they were search for songs about Daddy’s girl, [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Music Marketing, Songwriting, artist, india, performer, performing rights, songwriting information | Tags: band, bangalore, bangalore police, crime, dance party, drinking, india, karaoke, Music, music ban, musician, muziboo, performer, sitar, songwriter, stop the music, tabla, violence |
At first when I read this on Muziboo, a site I have just been invited to join and posted a couple of songs on, I thought this was just some situation that was being exaggerated, I mean how can such a large city ban live music.
When I think of India, I think of Sitar and [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Promotion, Radio, Songwriting, artist, gigs, new zealand, news media, newspaper, performer, songwriting information | Tags: auckland, new zealand, songwriter, luigi cappel, MySpace, Music, performer, gigs, music genre, music critic, networking, Entertainment, media, maven, musician, good media, critic, entertainment critic, music review, concert, landyachting, americas cup, sponsorship, music sponsorship, genre, dj, radio dj, radio station, news media, local newspaper, newspaper |
The media has power, they are mavens and have huge control over what people listen to and what they think they should like. Many artists, like politician, don’t like critics at all, they don’t like what they write, but in the end I think the addage that any media is good media, applies much of [...]
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Posted on August 17, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Music Marketing, New Media, Promotion, artist, gigs, new zealand, performer | Tags: auckland, bio, canon, cd's, closet, demos, designagift, dvd case, epk, famous bands, fee gigs, home recording, merch, merchandise, merchandise table, music forte, new zealand, pixma, press kit, print cd, screenprinting, song demo, t shirt, tascam |
While famous bands can earn good money at gigs, for the lesser mortals, often gigs are played for free or cover costs and not much more. For some payment might come in terms of free drinks, food and maybe accomodation.
So how can you make money at your gigs? One good way is merch, aka merchandise. [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, New Media, Promotion, Songwriting, artist, gigs, new zealand, performer, songwriting information | Tags: ballad, blue king brown, carlos, Entertainment, gigs, guitarist, Music, opening number, santana, santana live your light, singer, songwriter, support act, support tour |
The first thing to consider is that you are a support act and one of the key things you are there for is to support the main act. First of all, as I mentioned in my last blog, your music should be in the same vein as the main act.
You are there to warm up [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, Promotion, Songwriting, artist, new zealand, performer, songwriting information | Tags: auckland, new zealand, Songwriting, Music, gigs, support act, original songs, original music, September, songwriting group, Forde's Bar, fans, referral, opening act, country music, metal band, Bic Runga, musos, fiji, suva, suva travelodge, gibson, les paul, networking, music shop |
One way of looking for gigs to perform your original songs is to look for opporunities to become the support act. There are all sorts of opportunities out there and they all come from networking. On 4 September I will be one of 4 or 5 suppor acts at Forde’s Bar in Auckland. I found [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, New Media, Promotion, Radio, Songwriting, The Netherlands, Twitter, artist, itunes, new zealand, performer, podcasting, songwriting information | Tags: amsterdam, bathroom, blues, cold, cold bar, cold venue, dutch, dutch language, family, fresh air, great songs, hacky, hacky tennis, heidi miller, i tilted, i tilted song, injury, ipod, ipod dock, liz barry, mur lafferty, netherlands, new zealand, orcon, podcast, podcasting, podsafe, podsafe music network, procrastination, radio free amsterdam, scaphoid, scaphoid bone, shower, smoking, songs, sunday sundown, winter |
Just a quick blog today with a little message. I woke up this morning feeling like crap, I was barking like a seal, had a blocked nose and it was cold. I have a suspected broken bone (from playing hacky tennis) in my hand (scaphoid in case you are interested) and got up for a [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008. Filed under: ASCAP, Composer, Entertainment, Hit Songs, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Promotion, Radio, Song Hook, Songwriting, artist, facebook, itunes, performer, performing rights, rianz, songwriting information | Tags: always on my mind, auckland, billboard, country charts, facebook, hit song, hook, in the air tonight, indie, itunes, jimmy webb, luigi cappel, lyrics, music forte, MySpace, new zealand, no 1 hit, phil collins, Radio, radio play, radioscope, Ralph Murphy, record company, rianz, s3 conference, self indulgent songwriter, song plugger, song summit, songwriter, Songwriting, sydney, tiki taane, top 10, top 40 |
Some great advice I picked up somewhere was that if you want to write a hit song, you need to know what people are listening to. Whilst its true that there are song pluggers and the radio is very much influenced by the record companies, the fact is that if he radio are regularly playing [...]
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