{"id":37,"date":"2019-11-16T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mag.atomicmusic.space\/?p=37"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T11:57:13","slug":"hey-im-doing-a-gig-come-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio.atomicmusic.space\/index.php\/2019\/11\/16\/hey-im-doing-a-gig-come-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I’m doing a gig… Come watch?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How many musicians do you see\ncomplaining about how hard it is to be a musician? Diving deeper, how many\nmusicians do you see complaining about how they don\u2019t make any money off their\nmusic anymore with special thanks to streaming services\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Retro Youth Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cast yourself back to pre\n1994 (or google it if you were too young to rock out in this age)\u2026 Streaming\ndidn\u2019t exist back then, vinyl was fading out, compact discs were all the rage\nand quickly replacing tape. There was so many more music venues (still paying\nf&%$ all) and Musicians STILL didn\u2019t make enough money\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally\u2026 I\u2019m sick of hearing\nabout it though\u2026 I understand that life is hard as a musician because I left my\njob to become the \u201cTouring Artist\u201d type (yes, that\u2019s what I called it lol). I\nmade all of $72 over 4 years and I feel I was successful because I somehow\nmanaged to break even!?! (Seriously, how!?) But the truth is, I didn\u2019t work\nhard enough to promote it and certainly didn\u2019t maximise my income\nopportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There seems to be a strong\ncrop of adult artists these days getting around with a complex about how hard\nthe industry treats them and how they are struggling to survive but they don\u2019t\nseem to be active promoters of their craft. I don\u2019t see much action apart from\nthe usual local gig and a couple of shares on Facebook the night before the\nshow saying \u201cHey, I\u2019m doing a gig, come watch\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think back to when you were\nin your early teens and in your first band\u2026 Remember how hard you sprayed promo\naround making sure that every one of your friends, family, pets, neighbors,\nstreet etc knew about your show!? Go back to those days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally\u2026 If I wanted to go\nout, take time out of my busy life and away from my family that I hardly see to\nwatch an artist for 3+ hours, I wouldn\u2019t be wasting my time to go see Facebook\nfamous \u201cHey, gig, watch\u201d person throw down another version of Horses by old\nmate Dazza\u2026 I would be heading out to the artist that demonstrated a HUGE\nattempt to ensure everyone knew about their work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where am I going with this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music industry has a lot\nof money to be made if you look hard enough and are willing to put the hard\nyards in\u2026 The gig itself is 1% of your job (and the reason we all do it)\u2026 The\nother 99% is occupied by networking, promoting, traveling, interviews,\npromoting, having a cheeky bevvie with the first person who says they love your\nmusic, promoting and yup, you guessed it\u2026 MORE PROMOTING\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you promote yourself to venues, they will book you (talent helps too). If you get yourself 2 or 3 gig\u2019s a week, you can rake in enough dollars to get you through the week\u2026 If you pull a crowd, you can ask for more and in the end, your place grows in the industry and your wallet gets a little bigger\u2026

In the meantime while you wait for your profile to increase, go out and sling beers on the side, flip burgers, make pallets, teach young ones music and inspire them to grow up with this gift we all have as muso\u2019s\u2026 Whatever you can to bring in extra money to survive and continue doing what we love. But most of all\u2026 Stop bitching that the $0.00017c you make for each stream is the reason for your poverty\u2026 Streaming is simply another tool for promotion and a much easier way to distribute your works. If you don\u2019t have it, chances are, you are heavily limiting yourself of listeners because less and less people buy music these days to download to their mp3 player (Except grandparents who haven\u2019t yet realised the cloud is more than just a build up of moisture floating in the air).

Get out there, don\u2019t stop until everyone has been gifted with the chance to hear you play your sweet sweet tunes\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shade Out\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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