Reasons to be Blogful

I started this blog a couple of weeks ago. My reason for having a blog was simple. I write music, record it and post it on You Tube and My Space. I want people to listen to it and I want to keep making my own music and (ideally) help to keep the wolf from the door with it. I already earn by playing live gigs but they are mainly confined to playing covers. I enjoy doing this but I need an outlet for my creative side, hence the songwriting and home recording. I quickly realised that it is a relatively simple matter to produce your own songs in a home studio environment and to put them out there but, competing as you are with the whole world, the real problem is persuading people to listen, preferably more than once, to your online songs. I was advised to have, at least, a twitter account and a blog in addition to my use of My Space, You Tube and Facebook to find an audience for my music. So I now have a blog. The strange thing is that I find writing for the blog very fulfilling in its own right and I haven't actually used it very much for promoting my music.

Something that I imagine most people have found out for themselves is that we have opinions, feelings and convictions that we are not fully aware of until we start talking, writing or arguing and suddenly we surprise ourselves with fully formed standpoints we were not conscious that we held. We need to interact with others to discover ourselves. This is not the discovery of the century, I know, but it's important for music, for thought, for politics - for everything really.

So, in addition to all my other addictions, I am now a blogaholic. I missed a day on Thursday and didn't feel comfortable till I wrote one the next day.

Anyway, the point is that I am still trying to join the dots and find a wider audience for my music and the blog has helped already. Can I ask anyone who finds my blog worth reading to take a few seconds to click on the "follow" box - actually it says "join this site" - it's over there on the right hand side of the page - opposite the beginning of the post. Apparently the more followers one has, the more people are likely to at least read the post. This also lets you comment on what I write and I welcome all comments - even if you think I am dead wrong about something (which has been known).