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Music Business Facts- with Rodney Holder

Inspiring interviews with successful music industry experts

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Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 116

Successful music industry experts share their secrets, insights and strategies on how to establish a career and monetize your passion within the music business. Whether you're an aspiring performer, songwriter, manager, promoter, indie label, studio owner or music entrepreneur, every episode of music business facts will give you the industry truths on how best to succeed in the music industry.

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116. Devin Townsend Music Business Coaching Call

Saturday, October 27, 2018 • Duration 36:03

Devin Townsend is a successful singer, songwriter, performer, guitarist, and music producer. He is also the brain behind The Devin Townsend Creative Academy www.dtcreativeacademy.com

As a part of Devin's Creative Academy Devin offers select student's one-on-one coaching calls.

In this episode of Music Business Facts, Devin has allowed us to listen in to one of those calls, where he coaches one of his students on how to make it in the modern music business.

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115. Chris O'Brien - General Manager for Destroy All Lines

Thursday, May 10, 2018 • Duration 41:45

Chris O’Brien is a bit of a legend in The Australian Music Scene. He’s the general manager of touring for Destroy All Lines and former general manager for Australia’s biggest touring metal festival Soundwave 2003-2015.

During the conversation we discuss a variety of things including how to get into the music business, management, touring and tour management, festivals, and a lot more. We also have a brief conversation about Soundwave and the demise of Australia’s largest metal festival. As well as a bit of a chat about AJ Maddah - the colourful character who ran Soundwave.

Chris is a very knowledgeable guy who has a lot of experience in the business so without further delay - I really hope you enjoy my conversation with Chris O’Brien- General Manager for Destroy All lines.

Well there you have it folks I hope you got something out of that discussion with Chris. Once again some recurring themes about believing in yourself, having a positive mindset, working hard, have realistic expectations. And if you’d like to connect with Chris O’Brien go to:

https://www.facebook.com/whatavibemanagement/

chris.obrien@destroyalllines.com

Guys if you’re enjoying the podcast and you haven’t already, head over to iTunes and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.

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106. Benji Rogers - How To Raise Money & Create Awesome Pre-Order Campaigns For Your Creative Projects

Friday, October 6, 2017 • Duration 01:21:53

Benji Rogers is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Pledge Music.com

Pledge Music is a global direct-to-fan platform that helps artists raise funds and create excellent pre-order campaigns.

Benji Rogers is also an accomplished musician and has been through the major label system himself. But now he is predominantly focused on helping ‘creatives’ raise the money required to bring their projects to life through his Pledge Music platform.

So I encourage all of you to check out the cool shit going on over at https://www.pledgemusic.com/

Today, when I looked you’ve got artists like Black Sabbath using the platform right down to a stack of indie acts I’ve never heard of. Anyhow check out Pledge Music!

Website: www.musicbusinessfacts.com
Facebook: facebook.com/musicbusinessfacts
Twitter: twitter.com/musicbizfacts

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16- Rob Hirst- Midnight Oil founding member, song writer & skin basher!

Sunday, March 23, 2014 • Duration 01:01:16

For over twenty-five years Rob Hirst was the drumming powerhouse and founding member of successful iconic Aussie band Midnight Oil.

Rob has also worked on numerous other musical projects including his other bands Ghostwriters and The Backsliders.

Rob has even written a book- Willie's Bar & Grill- A tale of Midnight Oil's progress through North America shortly after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

In this interview Rob tells the story about how Midnight Oil achieved fame and fortune. He also gives some practical advice for aspiring musicians and music business people on how to approach their music businesses and careers.

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15. Magoo- ARIA Award winning record producer and audio engineer.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 • Duration 57:13

Lachlan Gould- AKA "Magoo" is a multi ARIA award winning record producer and audio engineer based in Brisbane Australia.

He has worked with numerous high profile and successful artists over the last twenty odd years including prestigious Aussie acts such as Midnight Oil, Regurgitator, The Cruel Sea and Powderfinger.

Magoo currently works out of his own boutique Applewood Lane Recording Studios” located just outside of Brisbane.

In this episode of Music Business Facts Magoo discusses the challenges of earning a living as an audio engineer in 2014. Enjoy

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14. Nick O'Byrne- Artist manager, Bigsound Conference programmer and AIR general manager

Sunday, March 9, 2014 • Duration 57:00

Nick OByrne is an artist manager, the general manager of The Australian Independent Label Association, and now the Executive programmer for Australias largest annual music industry conference- Bigsound.

In this episode of Music Business Facts Nick speaks with Rodney about artist management, The Australian Indie Record Label Association, and how to get your act on to Bigsound.

Another inspiring interview with a practising music business professional.

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13- Jackson Walkden-Brown- Entertainment lawyer offers awesome music business legal information.

Saturday, March 1, 2014 • Duration 59:36

Jackson Walkden-Brown is a music and entertainment industry lawyer. Jackson's principal areas of expertise include entertainment law, music and animal rights Law. In this episode of Music Business Facts Jackson discusses numerous important music law concepts and information such as contracts, sampling,copyright, copyright infringement, fair dealing, moral rights, trademarks, common Law, ownership of band names, partnership agreements and more. A supremely informative and important music business podcast.

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12. John Tyrrell- The man behind super successful Abba concept act Bjorn Again.

Sunday, February 23, 2014 • Duration 00:00

John Tyrrell is the man behind the hugely successful Australian Abba concept band Bjorn Again.

Years ago John was performing in both original and cover bands. Disillusioned with the dull live music scene at the time, John and his business partner decided to form an ABBA concept band and Bjorn Again was born.

In this episode of Music Business Facts John tells an inspiring story and shares some awesome and extremely useful music business strategies.

An episode not to be missed!

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11. Bobby Owsinski- Music Business writer, journalist, blogger, producer, musician, composer, engineer.

Sunday, February 16, 2014 • Duration 48:12

Bobby Owsinski is a music business professional and authority figure. After working many years in the music business as a producer, engineer and musician, he decided that writing about music was just as much fun, and the hours are more way more regular. Bobby is the author of over twenty books on recording, music, the music business and social media- including his best selling Music 3.0- A Survival Guide For Making Music In The Internet Age. Bobby has also written hundreds of compelling articles in a variety of industry magazines and blogs, and is the music business commentator for American business publication- Forbes Magazine. When not writing or in the studio, Bobby keeps a busy schedule of keynote addresses, master classes and workshops at a variety of schools and conferences. He also posts daily on his popular blogs- Big Picture- A music production blog and Music 3.0- a music industry blog.

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10. Paul Field-Managing director of children's super group- "The Wiggles"!

Sunday, February 9, 2014 • Duration 01:00:57

Paul Field is a successful Australian musician and businessman who is probably best known as the managing director for the children's super-group "The Wiggles".

Paul was also a founding member of the popular Australian pop group "The Cockroaches".

In this episode of Music Business Facts Paul shares an array of inspiring stories and presents some absolute Music Business "gold" information.

A must listen for anyone who would like to make a career in music.

One of the best Music Business Facts episodes yet!

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