MGT71: The Music Business Is All About Who You Know – Dearbhla Trainor
DDearbhla Trainor truly has a well-rounded perspective of all aspects of the music industry.
As a singer-songwriter, having worked at a major record label and a booking agency, Dearbhla (pronounced as Dervla) has collected a lot of invaluable knowledge and contacts over the recent years. And now, she shares the knowledge in her bi-weekly podcast, called The One Sheet. The show features one-on-one conversations with some of the biggest names in the business, and covers fields like booking, A&R, social media, or even music mastering.
Today, Dearbhla takes a role of an interviewee as a guest of the WeSpin Recipes podcast. Listen to this episode to hear a bunch of specific tips on networking and reaching out to labels and press, to learn about the art of accepting failure as a learning opportunity, to run a simple exercise which will help you understand how you (as a brand and a person) is perceived by others, and much more.
Some of the topics covered in the episode:
Dearbhla Trainor
- Music industry is about who you know – which doesn’t mean you need any contacts to get started.
- “Social life is your work life”
- On never missing opportunities.
- How to network online (with an example).
- The right questions to ask an A&R rep at a label.
- “Find what makes you unique and amplify that.”
- An exercise to understand how you are perceived by others.
Listen to the episode below.
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