Stereobaby
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After reading all those posts on bands that we never heard of again after being initially signed got me thinking.
Now I know all you thumped homos and homettes are fiercely independent buckos but if the prospect of signing to a decent label, potentially making loads of money, touring the world, having the freedom to spend months writing and recording your music and generally not working a nine to fiver for the sake of compromising how you make your music would you take it.
Say a big label came to you and said right off you go we want you to write an album full of catchy guitar pop songs. You're intially put on a retainer while you write the album and have a couple of months recording in Grouse, you're gonna tour Ireland and the UK with an appearance in Oxegen and a few festivals in UK and Europe as well as a tour of the States and you're gonna do a load of TV and all that award bollox and get support slots with all these big bands that come to play in Dublin would you tell them to fuck off and continue playing the hub once every 2 months.
Now i'm not into say the likes of the Blizzards at all but the average joe UCD student thinks they're only truly fab and there are more of them than me.
How do you folks apporach writing music? Would you take pop sensiblity into account at all or is it a case of writing something which challenges convention and is beyond immediate accessibility.
Judging by the mega number of responses to the other thread the notion of success is one of interest to people or is it just the case of people here doing music for the craic and simply observing the fact that the music industry fucks you over and pisses on your nanas grave.
Now I know all you thumped homos and homettes are fiercely independent buckos but if the prospect of signing to a decent label, potentially making loads of money, touring the world, having the freedom to spend months writing and recording your music and generally not working a nine to fiver for the sake of compromising how you make your music would you take it.
Say a big label came to you and said right off you go we want you to write an album full of catchy guitar pop songs. You're intially put on a retainer while you write the album and have a couple of months recording in Grouse, you're gonna tour Ireland and the UK with an appearance in Oxegen and a few festivals in UK and Europe as well as a tour of the States and you're gonna do a load of TV and all that award bollox and get support slots with all these big bands that come to play in Dublin would you tell them to fuck off and continue playing the hub once every 2 months.
Now i'm not into say the likes of the Blizzards at all but the average joe UCD student thinks they're only truly fab and there are more of them than me.
How do you folks apporach writing music? Would you take pop sensiblity into account at all or is it a case of writing something which challenges convention and is beyond immediate accessibility.
Judging by the mega number of responses to the other thread the notion of success is one of interest to people or is it just the case of people here doing music for the craic and simply observing the fact that the music industry fucks you over and pisses on your nanas grave.