Tuesday 27 August 2013
One Look Into The Making Of "YOUR SONG"
Have a look y'all... Just some info I thought you might enjoy. My youtube channel is standing at 3604 views and my facebook fan page is on 377 likes... Lets get things moving so get liking and viewing :)
Monday 26 August 2013
Wednesday 5 June 2013
My thoughts on song writing... like it or not?
So I just thought I'd give y'all my thoughts on my other passion which is, song writing. Guys, writing songs is like an emotional outlet and when something great comes together, its a feeling I cant describe. I've been researching and reading and studying up on the art of writing songs and yes, its an art. I love songs that have a story and a story that you dont need to decyfer to get the idea. That's why I love Country music so much. The stories are honest, not subtle at all and straight to the point. I also love songs that use a metaphor to explain a story eg. Heart Attack by Demi Levato where she uses a heart attack to explain lovesickness. Brilliant concept or Taylor Swift's "Love Story", where she uses the Romeo and Juliet story where in actual fact it was inspired by her being grounded and she had plans to go on a date with her boy friend.
Song writing is the best form of therapy for anger, heart ache, longing, happiness or pretty much any emotion for that matter. Ive sometimes over heard conversations and just one line inspired a song or someone elses sad story is great for inspiring songs. I wrote a song called "Crazy" which is a love song that was dedicated to my best friend and her husband and it ended up their wedding march. How wonderful is that?
I believe in giving good songs credit where its due, whether it be jazz, rock, pop or rap. If its a good song, its good, bottom line. I get soo irritated with alot of these new musicians or people in general that knock an artist cos its not their flavor. Guys, it takes all types of flavors to make the world go round. A great example, JUSTIN BIEBER, this kid is sooooo damn talented as a musician, he puts some really good drummers to shame and that's only one of the instruments he's mastered. Besides, whether you like him or not, you still find yourself humming along to his tunes, even it is to rip it, chances are you're singing the words to make fun of it BUT YET YOUR SINGING THE WORDS WHICH MEANS YOU KNOW IT and that at the end of the day is whats making this kid money and loads of it and why he is selling out arenas and stadiums and why you have to take your girlfriend and be one the of the majority. You chop!!!!
Guys, stop being so close minded. Open up your minds to new things. you'll probably be blown away at what talents there are out there.
Stay awesome and please feel free to post your comments.
Cheer for now :)
Song writing is the best form of therapy for anger, heart ache, longing, happiness or pretty much any emotion for that matter. Ive sometimes over heard conversations and just one line inspired a song or someone elses sad story is great for inspiring songs. I wrote a song called "Crazy" which is a love song that was dedicated to my best friend and her husband and it ended up their wedding march. How wonderful is that?
I believe in giving good songs credit where its due, whether it be jazz, rock, pop or rap. If its a good song, its good, bottom line. I get soo irritated with alot of these new musicians or people in general that knock an artist cos its not their flavor. Guys, it takes all types of flavors to make the world go round. A great example, JUSTIN BIEBER, this kid is sooooo damn talented as a musician, he puts some really good drummers to shame and that's only one of the instruments he's mastered. Besides, whether you like him or not, you still find yourself humming along to his tunes, even it is to rip it, chances are you're singing the words to make fun of it BUT YET YOUR SINGING THE WORDS WHICH MEANS YOU KNOW IT and that at the end of the day is whats making this kid money and loads of it and why he is selling out arenas and stadiums and why you have to take your girlfriend and be one the of the majority. You chop!!!!
Guys, stop being so close minded. Open up your minds to new things. you'll probably be blown away at what talents there are out there.
Stay awesome and please feel free to post your comments.
Cheer for now :)
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Do you love what you do?
Hey y'all
Ill start this blog by asking. Do you love what you do (for a living that is)?
I gotta say, I love my job man... many people over my 14 year career in the music industry haven't taken my job seriously and sometimes it can be very disheartening but I've taught myself to shake it off and show them the way it really works and then they're like "aaahhhhhhhhhhh crap" hahahahahaha.... cos its not just climbing on a stage and singing and/or playing an instrument. The awesome thing about my job is that the avenues are endless. There's always some new direction to go in and all can be very lucrative BUT some are dead ends too. That's what's so exciting, is that you never know. I also get to wake up every morning nice n early and start writing or demoing songs. Watching something take shape into something that you feel could be the next big thing (who knows) is like nothing you can describe. It puts me on such a high. A good friend who happens to be my manager worked in the corporate market for over 22 years and was miserable as hell. She woke up mornings and wondered what the hell she was doing. Till the day she decided, "you know what?", screw this vibe, lets take a chance... That's the key in today's world guys. If you don't take a chance you'll always wonder and there's nothing worse than my 2 least favorite words "WHAT IF?" Im only 30 years old but I definitely don't want to be 50 and be stuck in a job I hate for 30 years of my life. If you don't have major responsibilities, take that leap of faith and dive into the deep end. If it doesnt work, at least you tried but remember that there's always a solution to a problem so DOOOOO IIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!
Anyway, apologies for a short one today but just had to share this thought with you as its been on my mind.
Had this chat to a guy the other night and he was having such a huge party on his own and I asked him where's his friends. He says they're working at their dead end jobs they been in for most of their lives. Sad to be partying, man alone, but I actually thought, how crap it must be for those peeps.
Only you can make you happy guys... so take a chance and avoid, "What IF?".
What you think?
Ill start this blog by asking. Do you love what you do (for a living that is)?
I gotta say, I love my job man... many people over my 14 year career in the music industry haven't taken my job seriously and sometimes it can be very disheartening but I've taught myself to shake it off and show them the way it really works and then they're like "aaahhhhhhhhhhh crap" hahahahahaha.... cos its not just climbing on a stage and singing and/or playing an instrument. The awesome thing about my job is that the avenues are endless. There's always some new direction to go in and all can be very lucrative BUT some are dead ends too. That's what's so exciting, is that you never know. I also get to wake up every morning nice n early and start writing or demoing songs. Watching something take shape into something that you feel could be the next big thing (who knows) is like nothing you can describe. It puts me on such a high. A good friend who happens to be my manager worked in the corporate market for over 22 years and was miserable as hell. She woke up mornings and wondered what the hell she was doing. Till the day she decided, "you know what?", screw this vibe, lets take a chance... That's the key in today's world guys. If you don't take a chance you'll always wonder and there's nothing worse than my 2 least favorite words "WHAT IF?" Im only 30 years old but I definitely don't want to be 50 and be stuck in a job I hate for 30 years of my life. If you don't have major responsibilities, take that leap of faith and dive into the deep end. If it doesnt work, at least you tried but remember that there's always a solution to a problem so DOOOOO IIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!
Anyway, apologies for a short one today but just had to share this thought with you as its been on my mind.
Had this chat to a guy the other night and he was having such a huge party on his own and I asked him where's his friends. He says they're working at their dead end jobs they been in for most of their lives. Sad to be partying, man alone, but I actually thought, how crap it must be for those peeps.
What you think?
Thursday 4 April 2013
What happened?!!
I must just start off by saying, I'm sorry for being so quiet. I've been out of action for a while working on getting my album out and in the process I've completely forgotten about the people that mean the most, you (my amazing fans, friends and family).
I'm back in action now so I will work harder on not being so scarce.
SO......... Some really awesome things have gone down over the last couple of months. Ive released 1 more single after "Everything Ive Got". We tried releasing a 3rd single but got a terrible response for it, hahahahaha... and this is what I love so much about our music industry. We don't like much do we? hahahahaha... kidding. Ive been having so much fun making plans for the rest of 2013. I will be performing my first big show for 2013 on the 3rd of May, but more about that in the next blog.
I have to tell you guys about this really crappy experience I had on the 20th of March 2013 on the night I did a show with Joshua Grierson and BlackStoneRadio. A month or 2 prior to the show we received a contract from the venue stating all these super intense clause's which in our minds, we thought this is awesome cos that means that they're really sorted and organized (checking a venue out thoroughly is important to all those artists that's wanting to book their own shows). During this time we had tech riders and guest lists and poster designs etc sent through via email of which our mails weren't even opened.
So on the day of the show we arrive at the venue round 16h00 as we had to be there round 18h00 for sound check (We are the early bird type hahahaha). The engineer hadn't even heard about the show till that afternoon. The venue takes R1500 off the door, which to be fair is pretty reasonable if everyone sticks to the arrangements and works together, as we know the kind of cost that goes in from the venues side eg. Door Lady, The Posters being put up inside the venue, A stage hand (to help with the setting up to reduce time wasting), back line and more... None of the above was supplied except a door lady and they still held us liable for the full R1500. Now I don't really know what to take from this...
The turn out was so terrible (so we thought). I opened the show with an acoustic set with my band at which time we played to our loyal supporters, the 8 of them made it amazing for us, singing almost every word to all my songs. We had loads of fun on the stage and I knew, seeing this, that our next artist "Joshua Grierson" would really appreciate the small crowd as they were really into the music. To our unbelievable disappointment, Joshua decided to walk out of his set cos, (as directly quoted by him), "I don't play to 5 people so I'm sorry I'm leaving". Is that shocking or am I just old school where you never EVER walk out of a show. Then before "headliner" comes on we find out that all their supporters including the whole band was sitting in the restaurant waiting for their slot and then has the audacity to ask if their supports can pay half the cover cos they weren't there for the whole show. I was so disappointed cos their manager is such an amazing person and was there right through our set and was really being supportive. We decided to work with these artists as we know that they're great musicians and have some great music.
What happened?!!! Have I been out of the scene so long that I missed the part where even musicians stopped supporting one another? I just feel that the decent thing to do would be to encourage your fans and one another to support other musicians, even if I was the worst artist there, its just pure decency.
Ill end this off by apologizing if I've offended anyone as I am not in the naming and shaming game but damn guys. Support costs nothing man, you are right there. Why sit in a different room or walk out cos there arent enough people? Its wrong.
Anyway, enough of the emo stuff.
I will be posting more about the progress of my career and other topics soonest.
One more thing... Gareth James Chronicles stopped quite abruptly as we had some time and technical issues but we'll get back on it soonest.
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