Over the past week or so now I've been looking into different routes into the music industry; returning to college, gaining experience or getting in the thick of performing on open mic nights to create a base of work. All I’ve found so far is that college will cost a bomb, you can’t get experience “without previous experience” and my schedule disallows the progression of my creative mojo.
Thankfully, my experience in Cathouse as a DJ assistant is doing me great favours in giving me insights behind the usual view of a punter - Dance until a song you don’t know comes, go for a drink, repeat.
Over the 7 or so jobs I’ve had so far, the only one directly linked to music is the one that I can step back and say “I love my job”. I almost feel cheeky saying it’s a job because it’s just like “I’m getting paid for this? Really?!” Yeah there are drawbacks like the hours I work and amount of travel, but it’s all worth it.
So to want to move in that direction but lack the qualifications is frustrating. I’m all for “Temporary bad, longer good”. I apply it to everything in life so each of the options I have I’m seeing pros and cons, sacrifices and gains and weighing them up.
The ultimate gain, of course, is reaching my goal of having a foothold in music.
If my life could be summed up through song, right now its Proud Mary; Nice and simple, a happy song but a bit repetitive. Now is the time to kick it into Raining Blood. Fast paced, exciting and never knowing what’s coming next, and yet, still structured. Baby steps in the right direction is better than no steps at all!
One day I’ll reach that status, although given we’re in Scotland it’ll be more rain than blood.
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