SOUND ON SOUND
Increasingly, clients don’t just want your music. They want the opportunity to ruin your music, and waste hours of your life into the bargain.
When people are paying peanuts, they’ll treat you like a monkey.
The competitors you need to worry about are the ones you haven’t heard of. Yet...
We’d all love to work with the LSO at Abbey Road. But if we don’t have the budget, are we betraying British musicians by looking overseas?
Pretentious hairy people have influenced the world of art in more ways than you might expect.
Being precious about your artistic sensibilities is all very well — as long as you don’t mind no-one ever hearing your music.
The secret of success is to deal with failure in the right way. Which is easier when your failures don’t cost thousands of innocent lives.
The way composers are treated by some clients is just criminal...
Working ‘in the box’ is all very well, but what happens when the box breaks?
It’s tempting to think that success is about who you know — but in fact, it’s about what you do.