Music, money and the digital age

I've been doing so much practising in the last while, I haven't really come up for air. Emails have gone by the wayside, blogs have been left bereft and gig lists not updated (what's new?!). But it's been very fruitful and I've really enjoyed getting back into playing more piano and accompanying myself. It's a shame you just can't do everything at once!

Still, I did manage to get to a seminar the other day for creative types: "Tools for turning creativity into income". I could do with some of that, I thought! Unfortunately, it was more like getting the hard sell from the proverbial car salesman. Except in this case, it was four internet entrepreneurs touting their own versions of the digital path to success. Shame - it could have been so good. But I'm not sure anyone came away any the wiser. OK, so there were one or two things I learnt - but I realised later I'd have found out tens times more useful info from looking at Steve Lawson's recent postings on the subject - which I have duly done!

As with all of these things, there was a silver lining. I met another very charming dissenter, poet Sarah de Nordwall. She likened one of the panel to a character out of Minority Report - I feel there's a very entertaining poem coming on there from her! And maybe I'll write a song about it, too...