LADY J

In 2006 I started performing full-time. When I got pregnant 10 years later I was determined to keep gigging.

I expected it to be challenging.

What I didn’t expect was how lonely it was going to feel.

I’d just spent…

Booking agents get a bad rap.

And - frequently - they deserve it.

The barrier of entry to becoming a booking agent is literally zero: anyone with an email address and chutzpah can sell someone else’s services.

Consequently, the…

I almost didn’t bother with a second season of this podcast.

Not because I ran out of things to say, but because I genuinely wasn’t sure I had a point.

Season 1 of The Lady J Podcast was full of…

Last summer, my gigs were few and far between and my motivation was low. I needed a new challenge, but also needed some answers.

• What makes and sustains a career as a gigging musician?
• How do I get more gigs?
• …

Music. It’s the music that sets Christmas apart.

Other holidays may also be about love, and family, and food and gifts, and peaceful wishes, but no other holiday is as inextricably linked to its music as Christmas is.

Which is…

China was the worst.

Well, to be fair, not necessarily the worst. But, of all the countries I performed in when I was touring, it was definitely my least favourite.

Frankly, the sole redeeming feature of my 6-month Chinese…