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every year i release more tunes than the year before, and make less money than the year before

starting to get a bit impossible

HALP wrote:why is this even being asked?
Production wont earn you shit if you're asking these questions when you havent made any money yet
not the right attitude if you ask me

I think we all know it won't be the main job in many of our lives. I won some headphones

setspeed wrote:every year i release more tunes than the year before, and make less money than the year before

starting to get a bit impossible

You have to gig a fair bit to make a living from music these days, game has changed.

abZ wrote:Yeah but if we start adding up the cost of computer/software/hardware/monitors/etc I am sure we are all well in the red. Ain't about the Benji's.

ResetTheAtari wrote:

setspeed wrote:every year i release more tunes than the year before, and make less money than the year before

starting to get a bit impossible

You have to gig a fair bit to make a living from music these days, game has changed.

i am aware of that

i get less gigs year-on-year too.

i'm on course to release about 40 - 50 tracks this year under various names, including 2 albums. if that doesn't start getting me some gigs i don't know what will!

Nothingggg

Nothing, add in the hardware and software I've bought and I'm somewhere near the minus thousand pound mark.

Depressing ass thread is depressing.

deadly habit wrote:

abZ wrote:Yeah but if we start adding up the cost of computer/software/hardware/monitors/etc I am sure we are all well in the red. Ain't about the Benji's.

Oi forgot about all the fuel (weed)

ResetTheAtari wrote:

setspeed wrote:every year i release more tunes than the year before, and make less money than the year before

starting to get a bit impossible

You have to gig a fair bit to make a living from music these days, game has changed.

One good thing about today is that you don't have to spend as much on performance costs. 5/10 dubplates a week would kill ya right now. Or even just vinyl.

Depends how you view it really. If you see it as a hobby and something you enjoy doing on a daily basis then its definitely a lot more rewarding and productive than spending the same on a PS3 and a shit ton of games which can also be seen as £800 down. With music there is always the opportunity of going on to bigger and better things down the line.

We buy software/hardware for the love of doing it in the same way someone who loves playing golf pays over a Grand for a decent set of clubs and a membership at a local course

JT7 wrote:Depends how you view it really. If you see it as a hobby and something you enjoy doing on a daily basis then its definitely a lot more rewarding and productive than spending the same on a PS3 and a shit ton of games which can also be seen as £800 down. With music there is always the opportunity of going on to bigger and better things down the line.

We buy software/hardware for the love of doing it in the same way someone who loves playing golf pays over a Grand for a decent set of clubs and a membership at a local course

truth

it's a rewarding hobby as well,
I'm having even more fun now then i was when i just started, and i'm better at it as well

JT7 wrote:We buy software/hardware for the love of doing it in the same way someone who loves playing golf pays over a Grand for a decent set of clubs and a membership at a local course

Just got a really great quarterly breakdown from a publishing company with "£0" in every box

£0 and probably wont make much more than that lol but im not in music for dollaa

if i cud one day break even from what ive invested id be well happy...

i got laid on two seperate occasions playing my two tunes to dubstep fangirls. Considering how little i get laid, thats pretty much priceless!

corpu5 wrote:i got laid on two seperate occasions playing my two tunes to dubstep fangirls. Considering how little i get laid, thats pretty much priceless!

This makes me well up with sadness

corpu5 wrote:i got laid on two seperate occasions playing my two tunes to dubstep fangirls. Considering how little i get laid, thats pretty much priceless!

Would rather have that than a paycheck from a label .

Speaking of those tunes, that bootleg sounds RUDE! Bigups!

stappard wrote:Just got a really great quarterly breakdown from a publishing company with "£0" in every box

the last statement I got showed that the release in question had managed to lose £8 in between June and December last year