Decisions decisions...

I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about my career. Or lack of, at this moment in time. One thing I've always hated in the music business is the lack of money artists get at the end of the day for making the music that sells - the fact that it goes to record labels, distributors, publishers, agents, managers etc before it even has a chance to pay off to artists is, quite frankly, sickening. At the same time, I'm beginning to think that maybe music performance isn't for me. I mean, I love playing drums, but after these few years of doing gigs and most of the time playing to friends and band members family/relatives, it just frustrates me a lot that all the effort that I have put in over the years has done nothing. I know that I can't just expect it on a plate, and I need to put the effort in first before I begin seeing money, but right now I'm considering packing performance in altogether.

I've been thinking this past week or so about maybe getting into the business side of things - but do it in a way that benefits local artists and musicians. Similar to an agency, where I would hire bands or artists into my agency, get them work/gigs, promote them, do their business dirty work as it were, let them focus on performing, and take only a SMALL cut, provided the job is good enough for a small cut to be respectable for both sides. One thing I've always thought of as a problem is local bands, not necessarily in Northern Ireland, but anywhere, having difficulty of getting anywhere: maybe they don't know how to work the field of promotion, or they don't have the right contacts, and I've been there myself plenty of times with bands. And I just feel like I would love to help bands who have the potential to go somewhere. Eventually, it'd expand into something bigger and be more than just a promotion based agency.

Just running thoughts in my head.

Iain