I Hate Mornings

It’s only been a couple of days since I launched the revamped ihatemornings.com but already I’ve made some serious changes, and am planning several more. I want to document the progress so that once it’s all perfect I can collate all the hints, tips and experience in a handy guide. For now I’ll just link [...]

The latest redesign of ihatemornings.com incorporated some fundamental changes under the hood, most obviously a switch from “Textpattern”:http://www.textpattern.com (a trusted friend) to “Wordpress”:http://www.wordpress.com (the popular kid in the class). Wordpress is fast becoming the standard blogging platform for music types (and many others), so the switch had to be made. I have built a dozen [...]

“Nick Gill”:http://www.nickfuckinggill.com has “written up”:http://www.themonroetransfer.co.uk/wordpress/?p=56 a conversation we had in the States last weekend, and taken it to a beautiful new level:
bq. We performing musicians are, by and large, an insecure lot- we want our creations to be validated. Nothing says “validation” like an enormous cheque from someone who wants to make you famous. But [...]

The experts got where they are through some random chance and a lot of hard work, and there’s no concrete advice they can give aspiring music industry people, so they tell their story as if all the answers are hidden between the lines.

…Bring me a ticket for an all-day freeform event in London where the real experts get to talk to people who understand and care, and the new generation of social media-savvy musicians, songwriters and labels get to hang out, learn, network, create and enjoy.