Musician Vs Technician week 4.
Today my band and pod 6's band were the recording artist as we reformed our old band to record an old original song. We were being...
How can record labels survive the mp3?
i will be discussing how record labels can survive the mp3 era which has seen album sales plummit. Why have album sales dropped? With the...
Music vs Technician - week 3.
On November 22nd we went onto our 2rd week of activity in our 5 week plan of trying out every role in the music buisness, and this time...
Plagiarism and copyright infringement in the music industry.
Today we looked at the court case that occurred between George Harrison and The Chiffons. Using this case as an example we looked at how...
What is a publishing deal and how does it work?
A typical publishing deal involves the assignment of some part of the ownership of your songs to a publishing company in exchange for a...
Self employed musicians and taxes.
Today we have looked at taxes and how self employed musicians work to pay them and save as much as they can. In any job where you are...
Musician vs Technician week 2 - Performing.
Today we were the performing band on stage, and had to perform a few songs once we had our soundcheck and were happy with everything. We...
Musician vs Technician feedback week 1 - Sound engineer.
Today was week 1 of our plan from nick to try on every hat of being a musician, producer, engineer, technician and performer. Today my...
Organisation of a record label.
Today we looked at the organisation of record labels and how they work. I will post a picture showing how the hierarchy works in a record...
Ocean Variety now split into two bands.
At the start of the week we were informed that our band would be split into two bands, due to the size of the band (7 members) and to...
