Openback

A couple of weeks ago we chatted with Luke Hinton about the grassroots live music industry. A couple of the topics we discussed got us thinking; Is the live music industry model broken? If so many small venues are shutting down, surely there is something fundamentally wrong. 

So this week we go into this, imagining what it would be like if we owned our own small Pub music venue business, and how we might run it to make it successful. 

The music industry has many moving parts and building a bussiness in this space is brave and ultimatly incredibly impressive when it is sucseeding. Matt Kersey is a Luthier - building and repairing guitars and other fretted instrements. In this episode we talk through his journey, turning a hobby into a profitable and sustainable bussiness. 

One thing which really stuck out to us what Matt's phenominal aweareness of his own limits and setting healthy work habits to ensure a sustainable bussiness. Working through the stress of setting up a brand so recently, Matt has a clear perspective on this journey and shares some invaluble advice on doing this in a forfilling and positive way. 

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Kersey Guitars

Matt's Instagram

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Kersey Guitars Youtube

We all have that one friend who's always sending us videos, buying new gear, and chatting away about some new technology. But, does that stuff actually have the potential to make for better musicians? 

This week we discuss the concept that all these things either might make people more or less creative. 

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Live show tickets are still available 🕺🏼 - Click here - We will be joined by Luke Hinton, an award-winning promoter, and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts on whatever we end up discussing or you'd like us to discuss.

Releasing music is,  in many ways a complicated process, with lots of variables and factors to consider both generally and more specifically for your unique release and expectations. Having both released music with various projects we feel we maybe have an 'essentials checklist' we can share with you all. From artwork to distribution, there are so many things to consider when putting your music out into the world, so hopefully, we can help make this process more efficient and less confusing. 

If there's anything you think we've missed! Let us know either via the Spotify comments or on our Instagram! 

Live show tickets are still available 🕺🏼 - Click here - We will be joined by Luke Hinton, an award-winning promoter, and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts on whatever we end up discussing or you'd like us to discuss.  Last week Tristan made a claim: Bands are either perfect backing track style performances or they're more improvisation-based and impromptu, anything in-between is crap. - Maybe that's a binary summarisation but nonetheless, that's the gist.  So this week we explore that idea, playing devil's advocate at every turn. Maybe there's a formula for it, or maybe there's not.  It really is impossible to know what the right thing to do is, so join us on our ongoing journey, working out how to Make it in Music.  Enjoy the episode, Love Y'all xoxo

A slightly different episode this week! But! before we get into that, if you haven't already, you should totally get tickets to our Live show 'Openback Live' it's going to be brilliant. Plus, we were really nervous about it, so the more of you that are there, the more our egos should kick in and get us through it! Love y'all!

So our top tips for gigging; this was originally supposed to be top 10 but it got confusing and you'll see why so stick with us! Each loaded with 5 of our best tips and tricks for gig day we launch into a discussion around these practices and why they do or don't work for each of us. Don't worry we haven't included cliche crap like going to the toilet, having water, and making sure you've practised, if you're not doing all those things you're a psychopath. 

We really enjoyed this format of episode, so if you did as well let us know and maybe we can do more, especially if you have any topic suggestions!

Still tickets available for the live show, Openback Live, on 22nd Feb!

"It's not what you know it's who you know" is something that as creatives we hear all the time. It's the go-to piece of advice, which ironically doesn't really help unless you know some of these miracle people. Advice on HOW to network would be far more useful. This week we delve into this idea and end up arguing over the smallest elements of this process. However, I truly believe that when it comes to networking it's these really small details that can make all the difference. 

We sort of touched on this in the last episode and Tristan thought it would be worth going a bit more in-depth. What's the best way to network at a gig? 

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Our conversations with other people have started to really alter our mindsets and understanding of the industry you and we are working within. I suppose the overarching theme of this episode is whether you should treat your passion, your music, as a business. Does looking at everything you do from the perspective of a businessman/businesswoman increase your chance of success or does it reduce your innovation and creativity? 

From our previous chats to a very weird band interview Will had just before Christmas we explore this idea of business or passion in search of the answer! You may be thinking there's a dream combination and collaboration between those two things, but can they really work side by side, and if so what's the balance?