[ddots-l] Re: Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich

  • From: "neville" <neville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:43:40 -0500

LOL I like that! 



May the peace  of God which passes all understanding guard your heart and
mind in Christ Jesus. God bless you!

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-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Wicketts
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 6:04 AM
To: ddtots
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be
rich

Hi Tim,

we all know It's always been hard making a living when your a musician hence
all the dodgy jokes.

What do you call a Guitarist without a girlfriend?
Homeless.
What's the definition of a successful Guitarist?
His girlfriend has two jobs.
Well off to sell my piano as I fancy a KFC lol.

Before I go, my favourite music joke:
How do you know when a karaoke singer is at your Dorr?
They can't find their key and don't know when to come in.
Steve W

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Burgess" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:19 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be
rich


Hi,

I'm a representative on our regional Musicians Union committee and these
figures look about right.  The Union have a banded membership fee structure
that is based on your music-related income (this is based on trust, believe
it or not) and the huge majority of the membership fall into the lowest
band.

In the current climate it's very hard to get regular work, even for those
with amazing skill levels, and we have some regulatory issues that don't
help.  In London, the Metropolitan Police require venues to provide the
contact details of any performing artists as they perceive any gig to be a
possible location for public disorder - the Union are challenging this as an
infringement of civil liberties, as there's no evidence to back the claim.

I'm now waiting forr the rise of another punk movement as the antidote to
the over-polished, bland pop (pap) we're being fed and as an extension of
the mounting unrest in this country.

OK, so now I've made myself sound like some extreme revolutionary (which I'm
not, by the way), you can decide if you want to take a musical life
seriously - chances are that you'll be broke and victimised, but you'll have
a far more interesting life than if you'd worked 9 to 5.

 Best wishes.

Tim Burgess
Raised Bar Ltd
Phone:  +44 (0)1827 719822

Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology at

http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm



-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Smart
Sent: 16 December 2010 20:18
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: blind-recordists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jsonar@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich

Just passing this on.

Recently, Berklee College of Music in Boston released a study claiming to
give accurate salary expectations in various areas of the music industry. No
surprise, this document is in a /parents sub-directory on their site, since
it's just a marketing tool for the people with the creditcards. Please see
below for some interesting and startling statistics from the UK, probably
closer to reality!

Chris


>The Guardian (UK) points out the recently released Berklee salary
>survey:
>
>"the study's salary figures for musicians appear optimistic to me.
>Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Berklee College of 
>Music is reliant on thousands of students enrolling in its music 
>programmes. The reality facing the majority of its students ­ and the 
>thousands of music students at colleges and universities across the UK 
>­ when they graduate isn't quite as rosy. Once past the first hurdle of 
>actually getting a job, they may find that club gigs often pay nothing 
>at all. Some promoters even demand that you pay to play.
>
>According to the Musicians' Union, 87% of its members are making less 
>than £16,000 a year. For songwriters, the prospect of making a 
>sustainable living out of writing is even less likely: 90% of PRS for 
>Music members earn less than £5,000 a year. This indicates that being 
>independently wealthy is a serious advantage if one wants to make music 
>a full-time occupation."
>
>Furthermore, according to a study recently conducted by the UK-based 
>Word Magazine, a majority of charting British pop and rock artists were 
>educated in private, tuition-based schools. The magazine found that 60 
>percent hailed from schools requiring annual tuition, academic 
>admissions, connections, or all of the above.  Yet overall, just 10 
>percent of the general population enjoys such privilege.  Even crazier, 
>just one percent of charting British artists claimed the same pedigree 
>in 1990.
>
>So, instead of bands like the Smiths, Oasis, and the Stone Roses, the 
>current mainstream milieu includes well-reared artists like Lily Allen, 
>Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Florence Welch and La Roux.  Digging deeper, 
>Allen attended the pricey Bedales, at £9,240 ($14,357) per term, while 
>Welch attended the Alleyn's School, whose per-term commitments push 
>past £4,430 ($6,883).
>
>As it's revealed 40 per cent of them went to public school... why are 
>today's pop stars so posh?
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1336029/Posh-pop-stars-Lily-A
>llen
-Florence-Welch--60-cent-went-public-school.html
>
>Behind the music: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich 
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/10/behind-music-indu
>stry
-salaries

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