Music Business

It’s May Already…

4 May 2013 Music Business

May has come around very fast… a little too fast for my liking, but then again they do say time flies when you’re having fun, which 2013 certainly has been so far.

I’ve scored two more animations for Kilogramme for their client Kaspersky of internet security fame. The first one I worked on with them just won a prestigious advertising … Read the rest

Networking for Newbies

23 July 2012 Music Business

Nobody likes networking. It is a fact. I have yet to meet a single person who says, “You know what, I just LOVE working the room! All these people I don’t know, so many faces, so little time, let’s DO THIS.”

More likely it’s, “I hate these events… they don’t work… I’ve never gotten a single job from networking… can … Read the rest

7 Strategies for Staying on the Ball

15 March 2012 Creativity

Just read Tony Schwarz’s post The Magic of Doing One Thing At A Time and thought I would share a few of my own tactics to avoiding creative burnout and squeezing all the juice from my work hours.

The Ubiquitous ‘Struggle’

19 February 2012 Music Business

Struggle’. The word evokes images of toil, trouble, strife, a fight against the odds, against fate. I’ve been hearing it a lot of late. The way people in the arts and creative businesses describe their lives, how they got to where they are, the process they go through to make something creative or artistic or whatever.

And it bugs me. … Read the rest

Speaking at Creating Connecting Composing

3 February 2012 Music Business

I’m speaking at the Creating-Connecting-Composing event at The Showroom in Sheffield on 17th February, 2012 about composing for film and business and the like. There’ll be coffee and biscuits and chit-chatting too!

Music, Copyright and Licensing (Oh, My)

3 July 2011 Music Business

Music copyright law. Not the most exciting of topics. Or the most straightforward.

But here’s how it works when we work together…

When you commission me, I’ll write a piece of music, specifically to your brief. It’ll fit to picture or to a specific duration.

You’ll pay a fee and that fee will include the work I do on the … Read the rest

New Release: The John Akii-Bua Story

13 March 2011 Composing Music

Well this is all rather exciting…

I got my first official album release! The John Akii-Bua Story is available on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes and Last.fm.

V exciting for me anyways.

Listen on Spotify
Buy on Amazon
Buy through iTunes
Listen on Last.fm

The John Akii-Bua Story: An African Tragedy is a feature-length documentary about the runner, John Akii-Bua. Hailing from … Read the rest

What’s the Point of MySpace?

23 February 2011 Music Business

What is the frigging point of MySpace? Networking? Finding new music? I tried it yonks ago with no joy. Can honestly say I haven’t had a single job or lead or found anything of interest on the site, but perhaps that’s simply down to the way I want to use it, or at least tried to back in the early, … Read the rest

Money, Money, Money

21 February 2011 Music Business

Let’s get honest. (yikes!) How much do I charge?

Let’s Talk About Money

17 February 2011 Creativity

“How much do you charge?”

Good question.

Money is that epic elephant in room when you are a ‘creative’ in business. I’ve been thinking a lot of late about pricing and money. It’s the ultimate love-hate relationship. I love it for what it can enable me to do, but then I hate it when there isn’t enough to do what … Read the rest

When Doing It For The Money Just Doesn’t Cut It Any More

19 December 2010 Music Business

This is a very small announcement (well, HUGE to me but really shouldn’t impact on most readers!).

I’ve taken a step back from the string trio.

Not a decision taken lightly, it was part of an inevitable trend of moving in the direction of doing what I love rather than doing it for the money.

Alongside the constant of music … Read the rest

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