Imagine you wake in a strange dimension and realize you’ve been transformed into…
… an independent musician!!! 🙀🙀🙀
Scary, right?
In this Halloween-themed episode of the DIY Musician Podcast, we tell musician horror stories. The kinds that are common amongst indie artists, plus a few uncommonly strange and disastrous stories submitted by listeners.
You’ll hear cautionary tales about:
- Signing bad contracts
- Producers claiming to own your music
- Misalignment with your manager or agent
- Spending too much and hating the results
- Hard drive crashes!
- Stolen trailers, stolen gear
- Conflict with collaborators and bandmates
- Bad press meltdowns
- Live concert mishaps
- Becoming a Frankenstein of ego and insecurity
- The most embarrassing soundcheck ever
- Holding bandmates hostage… literally
- Awkward interviews
- Drunken accidents, head injuries, and more
- Getting lost (on stage!)
- A burning bus
What are some of your musician horror stories?
Let me know in the comments.
Or call our listener line at 360-524-2209.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.