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Why the Kaiser Chiefs got Fat and Lazy – and What You Can Learn from Them

January 9, 2014 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

So last night I was out for a company meal with the cast of Scrooge. I was chatting with one my colleagues, who has been a reader of this blog (and who has also done his own PhD) and I was saying how my biggest fear is having nothing to say – nothing to say […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: art, Career, Change, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, music, planning

Letting Go, Moving On

June 7, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

The whole point of being an artist is to let things go. Our job is to create something and then let it go, send it out into the world and allow it to have a life of its own. This applies whether we make a pot, a play or give a performance. It is something […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Artist, creative, Creative Entrepreneurship, Letting go, moving on, music, spiritual, teacher, Teaching

The Spiritual Business – the art of making people feel good

April 30, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

(I found this post hiding on computer, so it was no longer last night, but point is still valid.) Last night I went to a London concert for Krishna Das, a spiritual musician of Indian chants with a significant following. The event was at the Camden Centre with approximately 800 people in attendance. I was […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: business, concerts, Creative Entrepreneurship, Krishna Das, music, Musician, ticketing

Weaning off the Teat

April 27, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

One of my portfolio of jobs is that I teach singing at the London College of Music. This is a three year musical theatre training programme and I teach students across all three years. The current graduating class started with me last year and I have been teaching them now for two years. This year […]

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