Crazy people

I had talked to one of my friends that bumped into some crazy shit. I was not surprised after all the years. I'm not surprised by how crazy some people are and how they react. Actually, it's more common that you meet weird people than normal in this business. By then you need to earn your reputation witch many newcomers forget about. So I borrowed some of the things we were discussing in this post.

If you work in the music industry, you know all about hustlers. These kinds of meetings always have unpredictable outcomes. There are all types of hustlers;  Grifters, scam artists, emotional wrecks,  know-it-alls, and people that just find people try to find a network.  There are also clean hustlers, and decent people just trying to make it out of the maze. The different types just go on and on and have numerous combinations.

The hard part is to know who to let in and who to keep out. But here are some tip-offs that usllay works very well.

1. Be Respectful:
Always. Don't be argumentive, or turn conversations around on people. Don't be an idiot. Have some self-control. Realize you are the food, and they are the fish. Make yourself appealing, be respectful, always. Making small emotional ripples into tidal waves is not business. Yes, in the beginning, you have to get your nose brown, sort to speak.

2. Don't Be Manipulative:
The best thing you can do when creating new relationships is to try to be as transparent as humanly possible. Nobody likes feeling like you are entangling them into something you're trying to control. You don't need to be right to be successful. You need to be successful to be right. Don't go behind peoples backs, it will get back to you later. Sometimes you go behind the back without knowing it. Which can lead to a problem! Many in the industry are because of that over clear what they are doing to their network.

3. Consider Everything:
Before you unleash the beast of rage, or tell someone how to do their job, or try to slander someone to their friends, colleagues, and superiors, try to consider you may not know all the details. Instead of letting these people see the dark side of you and your unstable emotions. Deal with the problem directly. You just have to swallow your pride.

4. Don't Ask For Things Afterwards:
This is so so so bad. If you want to REALLY put a significantly bad taste in someone's mouth; Tell them they owe you, after you already fucked up the relationship (Smooth move..)
Successful people know all about sacrifices. They have either have watched people in their circles make them, or they themselves made them get where they are. If you are looking for more than just merit, or experience, be straight up. If someone makes suggestions and offers, that does NOT mean they are tools to be used against them. Like if they helped you to get a gig and no one shows up on the gig it's not their fault it's you that didn't promote the gig properly.

5. Know Your Role:
You're trying to become useful. You're trying to be valuable. You're trying to be a team player. You're trying to be essential. Okay, got it? Don't be an asshole. Don't step on people. Don't think that you can reinvent the music industry.

6. Have Patience.
The world owes you NOTHING.

In one way when you been around for a while you easily see through this. Still, you encounter them. The person that goes straight to the CEO of the festival trying to book an act, just because they meet the person. A good reason to take off that act from the festival.

The important day!

Tomorrow is a really important day. Well, when you read it it was yesterday and I will know the outcome.

If everything goes as planned I'm about to start a couple of new festivals around the world. My already crazy schedule will be crazier than ever. I don't know what to feel about it. I would love to have some time off just one day a week (I sit and write this on Sunday night, try to be quick since I need to get up really early tomorrow). I guess though I have the right mental state. this is what I want to do. I love my job, and it's the results of years of testing and trying things out.

I have written it before, you need to catch the opportunity.

Look
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it
Or just let it slip?

Yes, it's the lyrics from "Lose Yourself" with Eminem. Tomorrow is that day where everything can change. It's time to try to catch this opportunity, time to move ahead.

When you stop to take the chances is the day you reach your peak. Tomorrow is not my peak ....I have come to drop the bombs!

It will be crazy as usual.

I guess I never learn that you can't put in too much on the schedule. Still, in June everything was empty nothing was sure so I just put hooks out. Now it turns into the most exciting schedule that I have seen.

Like always we start with one week with madness on Live at Heart last week in August in Örebro that we get two small satellites in Stockholm and Trosa as well.

In middle of September, I have my own panel with Ömer and Tommy on Future Music Forum in Barcelona, Spain. Then go home and bounce out to Reeperbahn festival in Hamburg, Germany.

Then we take a stroll over to NYC, USA for some touring in beginning of October. Get back and then go to Tokyo to get on TIMM. Get straight back to Hultsfred to be on Rookie.

Then start of November UK tour with The Magnettes.

Well, December is empty if someone has something to throw in.