Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | Feelings, Music Related Links, Personal, Questions | 6 Comments

Twenty seven years old, business background for schooling /tech level, but accidentally got into academic administration at a tertiary institution and been stuck doing that since 2002. It wasn’t a complete waste of time as it gave me insights into many opportunities and gave me lots of experience – but the challenge is no longer and the passion just simply does not lie there any more.

For a while now,  I frequented live gigs, Checking out artists perform their music live, I was taking pictures of artists, informing people of their gigs on various social networking websites, just always staying on top of happenings in the music industry. Even after the gig, I’d write up a review sometimes, upload my pictures, link it to the event that was created etc.

I even went to extent of learning bbcode to be able to update the biography’s on last.fm (wasn’t that hard).

Gradually this became my passion and people started recognising it and showing an interest in the promo type work that it is I was doing (apparently it’s called specialist marketing according to Paul).

I started looking into the possibility of actually doing this as a career and most importantly, I wanted to be able to survive and maintain myself still, if I were to resign from the admin position.

Thing that probably made me stay on in the interim, is my fear that the industry was small which meant little room for entering into it and that the artists needing the exposure wouldn’t have the money to pay me to do their promos. So I paused the resignation and just barely sticking out the stress, overload of work, and really trying hard to actually get the oomph to wake up in the morning to go to that place. › Continue reading

Tags: career, dreams, focus, Music, Music Industry, Music Promotions, yearn

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | Education, Entertainment, Music Related Links, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | 9 Comments

Last Updated 2010-02-08

The South African Music Industry community, is slowly waking up to the powers of internet marketing and starting to utilise the services that Twitter has to offer.

By Following¹ these musicians on Twitter, you can read about their upcoming gigs and last minute cancellations or venue changes, band website updates, their new blog posts, new music releases, studio sessions, new music they are working on, concerts and touring, get their links to free downloads and to the minute news updates.

I can’t think of a simpler way for bands to keep in touch with their fan-base. . .

List of South African music-related Tweeple² on Twitter thus far (including artists and bands that have relocated elsewhere):

• The Rudimentals: Afro-Ska Reggae Band (Cape Town)
• GoldFish: Electronic Duo
• 7th Son: Rock Reggae Band (Cape Town) › Continue reading

Tags: Artists, Bands, Gigs, Live Bands, micro blogging, Music Industry, Music Related Links, Musicians, RSA Music, SA Bands, SA Music, South Africa, South African Music, Twitter