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Over the years my Building Blocks contributions to New Zealand Musician have focused mainly on sharing band management tips and working musician life skills. But ...MORE
31/01/2020
Managing your band, part 3: Paying yourself. Thus far in this series, I’ve discussed the need for a band to have a manager ...
16/07/2019
The Business End: In the first instalment of this Building Blocks mini-series of Managing Your Band, Pt 1 - Stepping Forward, ...
16/01/2019
The previous Building Blocks column was titled Self-Manage or Bust! In it, I pointed out that any professional musician’s ...
12/09/2018
Self-manage or bust: Ask the average working musician how they’re doing these days and they’ll likely shrug and tell ...
01/03/2018
You’ve been playing music for a while, been in and out of a few bands at high school and then uni. Eventually, you meet ...
14/06/2017
This column has covered club gigs several times in the past, but here I want to focus on three important points that fit ...
18/04/2017
My last article left us orbiting Planet Party, and away missions visited a few lucrative locations; playing at private events, ...
09/11/2016
There are many great gigging opportunities that will boost your cred and your ego that have nothing to do with earnings. ...