somewhat relevant
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/our-favourite-bands-and-their-day-jobs?utm_source=vicefbuk
however, 'loads of huge uk rock bands' is stretching it ..
― mark e, Thursday, 13 November 2014 08:59 (nine years ago) link
I came on to post that article!
But yeah, I hadn't actually heard of any of those bands before I read it.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
most of them have played near my house in the last 6 months.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:23 (nine years ago) link
mind you, i'm struggling to think of any huge uk rock bands right now.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
xp
Google says that rather than being CEO of Spotify, Luke Wood from Sammy is the President of Beats (by Dre etc). Also apparently "While Wood was at Geffen in 1994, the company posted the first commercial MP3 file".
I used to love Tales of Great Neck Glory but if you told a teenage me that one of the guys would be in charge of a multi-billion dollar company I'd have called you mad. They only just sound like they are in charge of their instruments on that album.
― challop (Willl), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
with the exception of Deaf Havana, who I assume no-one here gives a fuck about but play 1500-cap venues in the UK, the examples in that article are pretty badly chosen as I doubt most of them would have scraped a living from their band even in, idk, 1997
― well-behaved wingmen really hate Mystery (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
The Scrape A Living Years
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin)
Oh come on now.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
you know though, these are bands playing a very competent brand of popular rock. I mean, stuff like Gnarwolves, God Damn, Wytches have all been featured highly on 6Music. Heart of a Coward are from my neck of the woods. Not my cup of cha, necessarily, but they do the post-hardcore/metalcore thing extremely well, and that's a very very popular style of music.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
xpost Biffy Clyro. That's the only one I can think of.
Muse?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
Coldplay. Radiohead.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link
Mumford and Sons?
those aren't rock bands, don't be silly.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link
/jks
Rolling Stones are still around, are they not?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
srsly though, do people still listen to muse?
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
can anyone name a successful ROCK band (and i mean rock, not Mumfords) band from the UK who materialised after, say, 2010?
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
I taught a class of teenaged Italians over the summer and they were all absolutely nuts about Muse.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Well four years isn't that much time to achieve the kind of mega-success I assume you're talking about.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Royal Blood?
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
they were mentioned in the article.
i've never heard them? i hear they're big though.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
Runhild Gammelsæter is a biologist and has a phd in cell physiology.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 13 November 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I can understand nobody with functioning ears is particularly excited about bands like Bring Me The Horizon and Asking Alexandria, but they do make album chart topping records.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Robbie Crane of Ratt worked in a really nice Cajun/Creole restaurant in West Chester, PA.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
why is Morrissey so concerned about whether Robbie Crane knows his face or not? Always confused me.
― carot tard (rip van wanko), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
dave smythe, former bassist of the rezillos, is an anti-fracking activist recently accused of falsely claiming to be a chartered geologist
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
James Endeacott of Loop has been an A&R guy for Rough Trade for awhile now. Think he's responsible for signing The Libertines.
Nigel Twist of The Alarm works in the SF public defender's office.
Julie Ritter of Mary's Danish is a real estate agent.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 November 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Wonder what Nash Kato does all day.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
what the hell is evan dando doing
― hackshaw, Friday, 14 November 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
Dando still tours as The Lemonheads--he was just in town opening for The Psychedelic Furs.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 November 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
It looks like Amelia Fletcher (lead singer of Talula Gosh / Heavenly / Marine Research) has left her job as Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading to be Professor of Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia - http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2013/January/amelia-fletcher-competition-policy-oft
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 14 November 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
Excellent!
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/06/when-im-not-cleaning-windows-joy-being-part-time-band
― piscesx, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Fred Neil, writer of "Everybody's Talkin'", sang "I've been searching for the dolphins in the sea", then set up the Dolphin Research Project and more or less retired from music.
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
One thing I always wonder -- how do those mid-level indie bands survive? They're big enough that they tour frequently, hence they probably don't have a full-time job. But they also can't be making much from music.― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, February 1, 2005 11:56 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Friend who's a frequently touring indie/noise dude mostly works in call centres. Sometimes stuff like being a reader for audiobooks. Occasionally gets a grant. I think the temp/gig economy is fairly conducive to this lifestyle, actually.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 19 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
not exactly a "rock star" but the recent shirley collins doc has a bit about her day job drudgery after she lost her voice in the late 1970s. lame! also was surprised to learn in a recent podcast that sleater kinney's corin tucker does web development on the side ...
― tylerw, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
I know people who were in Soul Asylum & the Jayhawks who eventually had to return to bar tending for cash flow during lean post-fame yrs
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Neither of these people were the front men btw
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
yeah, i can only imagine being the bass player in a somewhat successful band is a losing game in the end.
― tylerw, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
They were both bass players!
RIP Karl Mueller, the sweetest man in rock.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
yeah even in a good year, if you aren't writing songs, you probably only make like a decent middle class wage (but receive all the adulation that a bass player gets)
― tylerw, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
OTM
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
i had a conversation with an aging musician recently and he was like "so i hear you can make pretty good money with ... computers?"
― tylerw, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
The guy from Creeper Lagoon started a rental company renting vans to...touring musicians.
He was recently in the local press because of an escapade recovering a stolen van:
https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Twitter-tale-of-SF-van-theft-gets-elected-12620936.php?t=91b84c280c
― fajita seas, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Perhacs returned to dentistry for many years before making another record
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
Vito Bratta of White Lion, though it's not entirely clear what he does other than having obtained a real estate brokerage license at some point
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
depressing thread
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
how do those mid-level indie bands survive? They're big enough that they tour frequently, hence they probably don't have a full-time job. But they also can't be making much from music.
mostly the service industry. much like how actors have jobs waiting tables (steady/reliable cash, flexible schedule, easy to find another job if you lose it) there are a lot of musicians waiting tables or working as bartenders or running sound at clubs.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Was gonna say the thing about Joe Easley what was already posted. Wonder how he's doing now.
J0hn Dug@n from Chisel was a co-worker of mine in a graphics department for a while.
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
I don't think it's depressing, I'd love to read a thread about how musicians are getting by without day jobs/side gigs.
Almost all of the professional musicians I know either have a lot of music-related side hustles (teaching, etc) or special circumstances, like a spouse with a good job.
Heard on a podcast the other day that Corin Tucker still has a job doing web development/media.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link