05/10/2016
The last stop in our quest was the unpredictable but often quite fun planet of All-Ages & School Gigs. Now let’s journey ...
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Starting this ‘Stage Trek’ series last issue, I gave a few general pointers on how to hunt down places for your band ...
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Mid-July 1982. For a 20th birthday gig, it had been a disheartening night. My band had just finished playing the classy, ...
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Part three of this Building Blocks' Status in the Scene series concerns touring bands. It all started very casually for ...
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Incredibly the story of Ill Semantics runs over more than two decades – albeit with an eight year break ahead of their ...
READ MORE >In my last Building Blocks article I charted the path that it took for a breakout band to establish itself in a local scene. ...
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Breakout bands. Every town where live music is regularly performed has some kind of scene: an ongoing series of performances ...
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There's a natural enough tendency for young musicians to be rather awed and thankful for whatever performance opportunities ...
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Cost / benefit analyses –– you're not alone if those words make your eyes glaze over. What do cost/benefit whatchmadingies ...
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