Video - An Interesting Life

Just a little something I bunged together while I was watching TV last night; an amazingly high-budget filmclip/slideshow for my song “An Interesting Life” which I wrote in 2009 and recorded in July 2010. (See below video for notes.)

The scene at the start on the train and all of the photos were taken, on a small, lo-fi digital camera in mid-2007 in France, mostly in Paris and on a visit to the Palace of Versailles. I got pretty bored of taking shots of monuments and crap like that so I started taking covert snaps of people minding their own business.

Although the song, with its reference to the Scarab Bar (a perfectly wonderful late-night watering establishment on Main St) is “set” in and around Belgrave, Victoria (as much as any song is set in a location, which is not much), I thought the pensiveness of the images suited the song with its themes of regret and remorse. And anyway, they were all I had besides happy snaps of the family dog or whatever Enjoy! And be sure to watch through ’till the end for a cameo appearance by the incredible speeding Snowflake Man himself!!

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Just Be A Musician

Episode 11 of Seamus.TV is about making music work for you by drilling deep down into that one area of expertise to succeed. Check it out!

New band - Zuiiza

Yes that’s right - the new band is called Zuiiza - an odd name for a bunch of odd fellows.

Zuiiza is a totally obscure Japanese Zen word I found which means to be off duty (literally: to sit as one pleases) except we decided to pronounce it differently than you are supposed to. It’s apparently really pronounced “zoo-ee-zah” but we say it “Zoo-zah” and we keep making up various fictitious definitions for it, so in short, it’s pretty much a made up word

Click here to check out Zuiiza and have a listen to some work-in-progress music.

Music Marketing Rant

Hey just posted a rant on music marketing over at Seamus.TV - click the link below to check it out:

Seamus Music Marketing

Seamus - Musician

I’ve just posted over at Seamus.TV - it’s a post called Seamus - Musician and it’s some thoughts on diluting your personal brand by using hyphenated jack-of-all-trades descriptions for what you do. It has been bugging me lately, and so I am going to change all of my branding to simply Seamus - musician (even though, yes, I can write, sell, this, that and the other).

Maybe not world changing stuff but hey worth checking out if you are currently calling yourself a musician-astronaut-music business consultant-dishwasher or whatever.

Glass and Blood and Leaves

Loyalty Punchcards for Bands

I have been on holiday and I am now back and faced with a mountain of work so might not have time for posting much for a week or so but here’s two links worth reading:

http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2010/06/promote-the-old-fashioned-way/

http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2010/05/5-tips-to-make-your-youtube-videos-work-for-you/

I especially like the punchcard idea in the first link.

There Is Hope

This sounds like the kind of thing that only a crazy obsessive would write about - so I guess that should be part of the following picture, but anyway:

I was reading some list about the supposedly 100 most creative business people in the world, and about Gary Vaynerchuck and his spot-on-ness about personal branding. And then I thought about myself (as I am so often want to do) and my personal brand, which is of course, Seamus Anthony. And then I thought:

“What does Seamus Anthony stand for?”

And here is the answer that immediately sprang to mind…

Hope.

Hope that even if you are older than 22, or not the best looking git in the world, or have a weird speaking voice, drink too much, have a track record of failure and lack of focus, aren’t the best guitar player in the world, have a short attention span, aren’t well connected, live in a remote area far, far from all the movers n’ shakers, if your hair is thinning, your waistline is expanding, if you’re too shy, or too loud, or just generally feel like a square peg stuck fast in a horrible, itchy, round hole that you fucking hate – it’s ok – there’s hope. You have value. And if you try your damnedest to work hard, persist and focus, then you might just do well for yourself. Hell - your dreams may actually even come true - why not? Why shouldn’t they? And if they don’t? Well, you can still have a laugh and do what makes you feel better about yourself and this screwed up world we find ourselves flopping around in.

There is Hope. Never give up.

Hang the Gatekeepers! … and then what?

OK you might need to go watch Seamus.TV episode 5 to understand what that means.

Seamus.TV Episode 4 online now

There’s plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead

A fly on the wall look into my late night songwriting process (technically referred to as jammin’).

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