(Yes theres a video - just read then watch!)
So doing shows, you
get to show off your music and (Hopefully) make an impression on people for them to buy your music, follow your campaign, or
for other musicians to want to work with you.
After my favourite performance EVER at Shoreditch House (Watch
Here), Myself and Shax who I performed with were approached by a tall, slim friendly faced white dude who introduced himself as "Ed".
He told us he played guitar, and "Really really enjoyed the performance, loved our sound, our message, and the whole vibe we brought and would love to work with us". So we took his number down with the aim to meet up with him at some point. Its funny when you do that because you have NO idea what level or how talented the person is - if its an artist, you can go home and check they myspace or something, but a guitarist normally hasnt got anything like that - For some reason though, we had a feeling about "Ed
"- sometimes you just get that feeling without even hearing the person sing/play, that they are gonna be good - which was backed by the people he mentioned he played giggs with. Down to clashing schedules though, we didnt link up for THREE MONTHS. Here's a bit of what happened when we finally did though.....
(Shax cussed me out for taking a video from one of his posts on HIS blog so click the pic to see the original post - the videos are at the bottom - im talking about the "Talk to me" video - both are entertaining, as is his post - please click read and watch)
A bit of Incisive/Shax History
As you regular readers probably know by now, I work quite closely with a talented vocalist/producer by the name of "Shax". We produce quite alot of music together, feature on each others songs, and do shows together, and throughout this blog, he pops up ALOT to the point where people ask if we are a duo group. No...the answer is no, we are not a duo, we just understand each other musically and inspire, and push each other - I guess you need people around you that do that.
Shax is actually a few years younger than me so I actually know him through his big brother, Justin who I went to college with, and university with - we were housemates for two years even but all this time, I never really worked with Shax.
I remember Justin always telling me about his little brother who could make music, who sang, who went to music school on the weekends etc but I never really listened - I mean, everyones got a little brother, or little cousin that they tell me about, hoping id take them under my wing (That sounds big headed - i mean more for me to "help them out and get started") - not all of who are the most talented! So im not gonna lie, I ignored justin for a minute! Im talking like four years during uni!
When I got back from uni though, I went back to my regular music making in London, and also teaching a studio engineering course in a local youth centre. It was at this youth centre (that Shax happened to goto sometimes) that Shax done a performance for some showcase one day.
So he came to me in the studio, in the youth centre to help mix his song for the performance. When this hyperactive, always singing to himself and moving around, teenager played me the song, I was BLOWN AWAY. This 16 year old (16 at the time), that I had ignored for these years actually had some FIRE - the song was called talk to me. It was VERY rough around the edges in terms of the mix and I think he had like two other songs fully recorded down to his lack of focus and sheer madness at that age but the talent couldnt hide itself. He performed the song and I decided to work with the dude. I wanted to hear more but he was very unfocused with batches of unfinished, half recorded songs or ideas just recorded on his phone, or unfinished beats.
Since then, we link up at my house to record sometimes backing on my tracks, but also and mainly tracks for his project, and the talent in shax has increased tenfold. I refuse to take any credit for his talent - I just saw the talent, couldnt let it be wasted so tried to focus it to get songs recorded.
I like to think Shax was like some musical BEAST in some huge forest with tall trees all around - I had nothing to do with creation of the beast, all im doing for him is cutting down some trees, making his path a little clearer.
Yea...
IM SURE SHAX WILL FILL IN THE GAPS WHEN HE READS THIS!!
More soon...
Random P.s I KEEP getting stopped by police - used to happen to me alot and I complained then they stopped - seems to be happening again - ima write a written complaint to superintendents, Local mps, local papers - if it happens to you or someone you know - dont let it slide - real talk..
