A familiar exchange on social media:
Artist: I’m going on tour to these places!
Audience: Come to my town!

I co-run a small music industry conference in Norway which took place mid-November. In the final minutes before the delegates headed off into the night to watch the bands, I gave a talk. This is an edited/augmented transcript.
We are born, and we grow, and we live, and our bodies almost entirely replace themselves every 7-15 years. The organs that work the hardest replenish the fastest. You get a whole new skin every 2-4 weeks, red blood cells last about 6 months, you receive...

[Andy with his friend and artist William Doyle, cleaning the bus on a North American SOHN tour, Spring of 2017, while driver John Wrinkle looks on]
Do you tend to handpick the artists that you specifically work with?
For the most part I’ve TMd artists I also manage. Getting closer to them, and meeting their promoters and label partners around the world are hugely beneficial consequences of discharging the role. Otherwise I’m asked to do it either by booking agents...

Sørveiv Conference invites you to Kick from 1000-1700 on November 10 and 11, to listen, debate and make their voices heard to a music industry which only exists because of Artists and their art. We’ve gathered managers, label bosses, booking agents,...