Vagabonding as a rock musician: a step by step guide. Post #3: international touring

This article is the third in a series of posts explaining how to bring your music on the road and get to travel with it. Read the series’ introduction , Post#1 and Post # 2 In the previous posts I have described how to prepare yourself to find shows and thus increase your performing experience....

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Vagabonding as a rock musician: a step by step guide. Post #1: how to get started

This article is the first in a series of posts explaining how to bring your music on the road and get to travel with it (Read the series’ introduction ) To be able to travel with your music, and I mean being able to get paid – even a tiny bit – to play, one...

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Budget travel: a view from long term vagabonding

There has been a recent debate about budget travel against cheap travel: the article draws some interesting comparisons between budgeting your trip, and actually being too much of a cheapo to make the best out of it. As much as I agree with many of the statements presented in the article, I had to stop...

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Travelling with a guitar helps indie travel

Last week, Lindsey Rue’s post on Vagabonding inspired me to reconsider slowing down to enjoy the music from another perspective: the musician’s. I have been a punk rock guitarist for the best part of my twenties, and I have started to love travelling because of the long, inspiring van drives linking venue A to venue...

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