A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A BAND MANAGER 

Been off for awhile and didn’t realize these “episodes” existed, excuse me while I watch all of them real quick 🏃‍♂️

I agree with your criticism about bands/artists holding on to songs. One thing we are considering doing is burning songs to a cd and hand the cd to people who follow us on social media.

Not thinking about what is around thats interesting. How do we make ourselves interesting - that hit home. I think that's changed my whole perspective on content

“Do less better” I might turn that into a tattoo. Every video I at least get one tidbit that helps me rethink what I’m doing. Brilliant as always Damo!

The moodboard is such a creative tool, it can be used in such a variety of ways. Cheers for the tip Damo

Love the video! Keep up the good work!

I like the idea of using a moodboard. Haven't done that before and I think it's a great way of getting a better grip on the 'world' we want to create. - Pelle

Great stuff, DK !!

officially a fan of Television Skies now. Music is great and there's honestly nothing cooler than a band that looks like they're having fun doing what they're doing.

This is awesome to watch

I love the little bit of video of the photo shoot it was really well done.

Every time I learn something new here or consolidate what I already know but forget. Thanks!!

I love how there is always invaluable information to take away from each one of your videos! So curious to see what my band would come up with if we made a mood board 😁

Great video! Thinking a lot about the end where you talk about bringing together the storytelling and documenting the songwriting parts. I’ve been thinking the same as I do my first real efforts at recording done of my original songs. Been learning a lot!

I just realized I already learned a lot from you! I'm already using the moodboard, since you mentioned it in one of your previous videos about photoshoots. And I'm documenting my creative process way more than I did before. I thought at first: ''How the heck am I supposed to create even more content?'' But the content was always there, I just needed to document it! Thanks Damo!

Grand content, once again! Thank you

At least one huge knowledge bomb every video, love em!

the editing is getting really nice 💯

I'm soooooo stoked for this!! I relate to James' conundrum in a big way, being sort of a compulsive songwriter and multi instrumentalist (obviously I don't have that honey voice though). So I'm takin notes on that journey, verbatim.

I'm really enjoying these... I'm excited to see what happens...

Love what you are doing for independent artists! Keep being you Damian! :) x

I was a band manger for 10 years - just randomly, no experience in that industry at all, but just met a band and they asked me to be their manager and I said I'd give it a go. I didn't follow any rules, and that was a good thing as it was a special time in the music world, everything had just fallen apart and the major labels had temporarily lost all control and there really wasn't any rules to follow right then. I guess every band brings it's own unique set of challenges and considerations: I had a great band to work with, but they had 4 guys in the band that were natural stars, never had to worry about them being 'interesting' and they could write a new song everyday almost. It was completely chaotic and I managed by myself in the end I just got tired of chasing my tail and I tried to push the guys to 'sell out' and do things a bit more normally, but they just aren't normal people. To be honest I couldn't wait to get out the industry, I think SXSW 2017 was the last straw for me - out of all those bands and artists there were about 5% actual bands with instruments and the rest was hip hop based stuff I just didn't get. I realised the whole music world have changed into something I no longer recognised and no longer felt any passion for and there was a new structure that had gradually formed and now seems like the big players have regained control. There was a brief amazing moment back around 2009 - when you could directly book a 1500 cap venue in big European city and sell it out just using social media (when facebook gave you 100% access to your followers) and keep all the profit - it was a great time to be in the business. Many great memories of touring around then. Different world.

Wow that mood board thing was really interesting. I've done mood boards for specific branding elements like my band did one recently to send to a logo designer which we just filled up with aesthetic ideas that we felt represented us. I never really thought of doing one that straight up encompasses our whole journey and what we stand for. That makes so much sense in terms of inspiring us when we're creating content.

Great to see a mood board! I would take it even further... after doing the mood board of their influences and stuff, do a developed one that includes THEIR colours, fonts, chosen aesthetics that are solely theirs but have been inspired by the influences 😊 Defining this stuff makes photo shoots etc much easier. Great to see some focus on the visuals though 😁

Good stuff Damo! I fasted all media for 30 days and your band manager challenge was the only RU-vid storyline I came back to. Great start with the artists!! Cheers 🐒

Do less better - great advice man. Kind of feel like we're going in all directions at once sometimes with building a RU-vid Channel, writing new stuff, recording what've already got, making videos for our stuff... it's definitely key to keep in mind. Thank you again for these quality videos man! It really gives other bands like us some 'hands-on' experience. Can't wait for the next one!

"Do less better" love that!

Hey Damian, I’ve learned so much from your content over literally the past 3 weeks. I stumbled onto you, Garyvee & actually from the Reyes the entrepreneur 😆.. a quick sum up-I am a drummer, guitarist, bassist & keys definitely 4th..I don’t dabble in ANY of those areas..Writing to me is like breathing..I don’t mean for that to sound any other way than the truth..for the past 18 months myself & my songwriting partner have been a plane ride away from 3 ‘layup’ meeting in Nashville. It’s been almost too good to be true, but none the less it is true. My partner is the worlds #1 Elvis tribute who initially had the meetings for himself. My role was to supple him with material that he could go with to help dictate the terms of the meeting a little more & help him not to get B & C songs..quickly the goal became to develop a sound that was not of the current country mold..and also for me to help him find ‘his’ voice. Mission accomplished. Over the past year I developed a very solid relationship with our guys in Nashville while my partners touring schedule kept interfering with the meeting dates. I have seen my partners interest in the game plan declining & I was filled with a lot of uncertainty..so, I started taking action, took your advice & began working on social with not much of a clue as to what I was doing & simultaneously starting a company where my goal is to become a brand that no matter what the industry is doing, fans can always count on..while this message may be a BIT too long, I know & have learned from you to reach out in comments so I’m doing it on the fly. I have so much material, only a fraction laid down, with very rough vocals but the feel & sound is there. I haven’t wanted to post any music yet until I get back in the studio & can arrange clips..My goal now is to attain my own representation & grow my company naturally and no longer be dependent on someone else-it’s been a reoccurring theme for years & would be pointless if I didn’t learn from it. Which I did, and am grateful for it. To wrap up, I just want to say thank you for being a coach along the way, for your content that allows for so much strategy & execution & if by chance you don’t skip this thesis, thank you for taking the time to read. I wish you nothing but the best! Thanks, Chris Harding

Nice one, Damo! I was slightly concerned where you were going with this series as the first two episodes were too X Factor for me. I was going to comment as much at the time, then it occurred to me that you had to set it up somehow, and I didn't have much to contribute in the way of doing it any better! And plenty of others enjoyed it so I butted out 😁. Great to see you back on your usual territory here though, with some great ideas on organisation and strategy which is what I come to you for (and thanks again for all the top advice I've taken so far). I reckon that change of format is a great idea and look forward to the next episodes. Cheers! Jonty K

When people say there are some good acts out there but you just have to really look for them, I think they are talking about bands like Television Skies. Gotta check out more of their stuff

The mood board is a great idea! Definitely something I plan to do. But the "showing the songwriting process" part kinda terrifies me lol. Not just for the fact people may not like it, but you may change things for a later release and have people go "Meh, I liked the first version better."

Omg so useful!

Do less better is such a good mantra. A lot of times I feel like I'm doing 1000 things at once, I need to focus on the important task at hand. #dolessbetter

Thanks, Damian. This information helps us anticipate the needs of a manager, should we ever take one on. Us: “Here’s our mood board.” Manager (amazed): “I was about to ask you to make one.”

Hey Damo, your advice on putting new songs on YT is interesting. My problem is that my production skills are rubbish, so I'm hesitant to put full songs up before they've been properly produced. I could probably get away with posting the first half (ish) of a new song, then post the full thing later when it's produced, I suppose. Any thoughts?

Also, I know it's off topic but have you ever done a video on stage banter? I haven't come across many videos that focus on that part of live performance.

I do miss the tricky teaser at the end of this video, compared to the first ones.

These episodes need a name that's easier to spot - "Breaking Band Episode 3 - A day in the life of a band manager"

The yungblud look is very popular at the moment cool but you can never fake it ... Only so many thanks me someone can put a toaster in the bath and not say the saw parent ain't always right 😂

Hacer menos mejor!! Fuerte

10:00, a man on dog poo duty or a man being sick? 🤔

This is great content