Seeing as it’s Spotify unwrapped week and it’s Bandcamp friday tomorrow and there’s a streaming inquiry going on, here’s a question I’ve been pondering: How successful should a musician have to be to make a living from making their own music? Strap in for THREAD TIME! (1)

This is partly informed by me suspecting that me and Peter are basically the least successful musicians managing to make a (meagre, let’s be honest) living from our own music, but our circumstances are very, very particular and couldn’t be a very effective model beyond that (2)

Namely, we live somewhere where space is cheap, we have always been interested enough in recording that we can make records ourselves very cheaply, we are prepared to suck up a lot of hard, boring work (driving, repairing, bookkeeping, tour managing) in order to... (3)

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