for the other band members, but they must accept it with good grace or change professions.

as is often the case, the review doesn’t mention the individual band-members’ amazing performances but unfortunately dwells at length on the singer, this is par for the course and is the same in every band no matter how big or small; journalists love frontmen. It’s distressing

who think because they’ve done one gig at the local venue, they’re the next global super-group. Be modest but calmly confident; boasting and lying about what you’ve done as a band is extremely counter-productive. Remember though, you cannot – ever – control what journalists write. If for example,

held at regular intervals where all non-musical business can be explained & discussed calmly and thoroughly are invaluable.

***JD's Advice for Bands*** #1
Consensus: bands are comprised of several temperamental individuals - they must all agree first on the approach taken for their promotion. Band ‘business’ meetings

I am going to re-post his chunks of wisdom and hope it may be of help for some of you out there.

Sounds awesome. There's so many cool fiddlers and their bands, like Lunasa or Kan. One can never tire of listening to the sound of a fiddle.

Know how you feel. Lost my younger brother as well. Big hugs!

I learned so many new things from this score. Pure genious the bones and bodhran percussions.

That's such good news! So happy for you!

Yeah, the solo at the end is basically one chord with some added notes here and there. But it fits the song perfectly.

There's some really good and iconic tracks on that album. And the Bob Clearmountain drum mix is so good. Sadly a great song - Ghost of my Father - was not published on that album being a b-side to Here come the War. Never knew why it did not make it on the album.

Ha, how cool is that?!