Whether it’s finding the strength to play a gig to no-one on a Sunday night whilst coming down hard off legal highs that you bought from the internet; or arguing with a promoter who is saying he’s been in a car accident so can’t pay you as much as agreed for playing a bandstand in […]
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How to be in a band during the worst gig of all time
On a good day playing a show anywhere across mainland Europe means you are met warmly by staff at the venue, fed well, given plenty of beer to drink, people show up, enjoy the show, they chat afterwards, buy merch, everyone generally feels validated at their choices in life. Then you are given somewhere decent […]
Fishlock Fridays #8 – Quit your job and go on tour
I’m forever living in the past, in a nostalgia fuelled world where I’ve decided recently to re-read the Harry Potter books and on Wednesday I’m going to see Goldfinger, and I am constantly playing the Tony Hawk video games that made me discover the band in the first place. Does anyone have that stupid app […]