Category: Conversations
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Balancing Photo and Video on Tour
Photography and videography might look like they are similar things, but in reality, they are different professions that require creativity. Some creatives do both photo and video on tour, and they might be more desirable on the road because the more versatile someone on the road, the more likely they are to be picked out.…
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Navigating the Industry as a Musician
There are a few different routes that people take to get into a band – you might be a very skilled musician and your network can help, you might be friends with the band members, and they might ask you to join, or you might directly get in contact with the band or their manager…
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Becoming a Manager in the Music Industry
Managers are the people that hold everything together for an artist. They delegate who does what and when, and they oversee everything that happens with their artist’s project. In the “Becoming a Manager in the Music Industry” episode, we hear Bing’s story about how he started at a day job, then interned, worked at a…
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Level Up Your Touring
In our talk with Shane Told of Silverstein, we have learned a lot from a musician’s perspective about how to make sure that your crew members are doing OK and that they are happy working with you. Silverstein’s approach to touring does not operate in most bands and that is understandable. However, they have found…
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Working for Bigger Tours
Touring has a different vibe every single day because every artist comes with a different sort of feel. There is always a different environment, and this doesn’t change with bigger tours. Certain things are different from smaller tours, but in the end, everything we have learned this far applies to bigger tours as well. How…
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Life on and off the Road
It is without saying that an intentional balanced in your life on and off the road comes with a lot of practice, self-control, and discipline. Gaining interpersonal skills with your tour mates and with your relationships outside touring, and how you maintain a steady healthy life in a not-so-steady healthy kind of career is the…
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Stagehand 101
Finding your path in the music industry through being a stagehand is a very common route to getting on tour. It allows you to get a variety of knowledge, it gives you the ability to navigate the industry much more fluently, and it makes you understand what your peers are doing. In addition, it helps…
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Touring Exit Strategy
People aren’t usually in the touring world because it’s just what they ended up doing. They are here because they have intention, and they want to do this. In this industry, people are in a place where everything they are doing is almost just as much fun as it is hard work. And because of…
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Maintaining A Healthy Touring Lifestyle
If you have made it this far reading the articles and/or listening to the podcast episodes, we know that you want to get into the touring music industry. You’re trying your best to master your profession, whether it’s being in a touring crew or being on the stage as an artist…. Or maybe you have…
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Working With Artists
There is a difference between working with artists and working for artists and it separates the different types of photographers. When an artist works with another artist, it’s a collaborative effort. Both parties contribute to the final product and when that happens, the result is amazing. Collaborations Photographers thrive on collaborations. If the artist has…
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