Carl’s RollerCoaster Podcast

Hello dear friends! Another one with yours truly :)   8 easy ways, to really pay attention in life in order token making progress.   Unlock your potential. You can achieve anything in life!   Podcast artwork by the amazing Chase Leopard. Follow him on IT @chaselepard  

After a few months of real hard work and a lot of great achievements, I'm finally getting back with some special guests. In the mean time, I have decided to share, with you my dear friends and listeners, some insights I tend to gather from readings, podcasts and life in general.   With this, I do hope to add somehow to your day, to you life. I hope you enjoy the sequence of thoughts I'll be sharin...

Felipe Andreoli was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on March 7, 1980. He is today one of the most respected bassists in the world in his style, member of the internationally renowned band Angra, in addition to the solo group of Kiko Loureiro and the instrumental quartet 4Action, among other projects. He recorded countless albums and made several world tours through more than 30 countries, in addition t...

Daniel Spriewald is a bass player based in Los Angeles, CA, for the likes of Silverthorne and Phil X & The Drills. Dan has been a professional musician for many decades now and is a dear friend, with whom I've had the opportunity to tour with on a few occasions.  He's career and life, having moved from home land Canada to California, almost 25 years ago, has some very insightful points, and we hav...

Jeff is a very talented lighting designer, programmer, set designer and board operator for the Rock American band, All Time Low. He has also worked with the likes of Good Charlotte, The Dresden Dolls, The Gaslight Anthem, just to name a few. Jeff has designed shows from arenas to small venues. He loves the challenges of creating in new, challenging environments. In early 2000, Jeff started out as...

Claire is the Outreach Manager for PRS for Music for the West of England. On her role, she works with music creators, organisations and representatives to advise on PRSfM, how to get the most from membership. This was a very insightful conversation. Claire has a huge understanding of the in's and out's of the Music Publishing Sector and how creatives can monetise their work as musicians. Very insp...

André Dellamanha has an amazing professional career as Production and Tour Manager for the likes of Sepultura, Arch Enemy, Scorpions, Angra etc. On the previous episode, Part 1, André tells us how everything started for him in the music business. It's a very insightful conversation and André's experience is unparalleled and I dare to say, a very good lesson on how to get into the major leagues of...

André Dellamanha has an amazing professional career as Production and Tour Manager for the likes of Sepultura, Arch Enemy, Scorpions, Angra etc. On this Part 1, he tells us how everything started for him in the music business. It's a very insightful conversation and André's experience is unparalleled and I dare to say, a very good lesson on how to get into the major leagues of the touring business...

Sophie a fitness coach, public speaker, influencer, ultra endurance athlete, nutrition coach and business women. While Sophie’s passion lies in adventure, specifically physical adventure, she provides inspiration and motivation to others via personal training and public speaking to become fitter, stronger and more confident by sharing her journey and encouraging others to shift their mindset to se...

A quick one to share some industry stats in regards of the publishers market share and a little insight of the flow of UK publishing income, highlighting the main aims and do's of a Publisher. Reference: MBE PA5512/ 4/ Tony Moss

Mat Sinner is a bassist, vocalist, and record producer from Stuttgart, Germany. Mat has been involved in numerous bands and projects throughout his musical career. His main bands have been Sinner since 1982 and Primal Fear since 1997; he formed the latter band with former Gamma Ray singer Ralf Scheepers. Source: Wikipedia Since 2010, Mat has been captaining the "Rock Meets Classics" project, which...

Steve Evetts is an American record producer who has produced, engineered and mixed music for the likes of Symphony X, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sepultura, The Cure, Story of the Year, Every Time I Die, Ego Kill Talent, Architects amongst many others.

Rafael Bittencourt is a Brazilian guitarist, with international recognition and singular sensibility, technique and style. He graduated Bachelor of Music Composition and Conducting in São Paulo in 1996. A few years earlier, in 1991, founded the world-famous band Angra.

Kieran Robertson is a performer, producer and session Musician from Glasgow Scotland. He Has an album and 2 singles out by his own name which where done with the help of Mordhorst Music Management. Albums Album 1 - Kieran Robertson - In The Name Of Vanity Album 2 - 'Till Death Do Us Part - Detached EP - 21st Century Bitch EP - Pathogen Kieran is also a the guitarist of legendary Metal Vocalist Geo...

Short episode looking back at Nirvana's main man career, the late Kurt Cobain, focused on the management side of things, historical points, the ups and downs, the origins of Grunge and Nirvana itself and eventually it's tragic end.

A native of Philadelphia , Courtney Cox first started playing guitar around the age of 13. When she turned 15, she enrolled at The Paul Green School of Rock Music . During her tenure there, she performed in various U.S tours with established acts such as Jon Anderson and Adrian Belew . She shared the stage with other performers such as George Lynch and Perry Farrell . During that time, Cox joined...

Tony spent his early days in rock radio and had a stint as rock editor of Hits Magazine, before gaining nearly 20 years of management experience with artists including Shinedown, Creed, Neon Trees, Theory of a Deadman, Halestorm and many others, also day-to-day manager for rock bands Chevelle and In this Moment.    Amongst other artists, Tony currently manage Ego Kill Talent as well.   Tony joined...

What is an Artist Label Service? A new age of tech-driven entertainment puts artists at the centre of the industry, contradictory to its past in which the music business required artists to focus solely on their legal contracts. From this emerged the Artist and Label Services ‘sector’. A ‘sector’ which serves creatives whose work has become more complex and potentially more fruitful as the digital...

On this episode, a brief talk about what Copyright consists of. We touch into the 3 main Publishing Copyrights: Performance Royalties, Mechanical Rights and Synchronisation. How and who in the UK (PRS for Music and MCPS) operate. How performance rights are collected and distributed. Basically a very brief insight into the legalities of Copyright, arguably the main source of income for independent...

On this episode, yours truly, takes you briefly through the UK music history from the 50's all the way into the 2000's. This was an essay I have written, which I think it's a good summarised way to tell, more or less, what has happened in all those decades of amazing music produced by British artists. It's also very short, which makes me believe it might be a cool idea to bring other subjects into...

Hayo is an experienced Senior Production Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry.   Skilled in Tour Management, Production Management, Concert Production, Live Events, and Theatre.    Worked for Mojo Concerts (Live Nation NL) and tours with the likes of System of a Down, Within Temptation, Muse etc.

Theo Van Der Loo is a business man, working in several different fronts. Founder and Producer of the very successful Brazilian festival SWU.  Theo plays guitar on the Brazilian rising stars EGO KILL TALENT and on this conversation we went through so much, music business, awareness and consciousness, meditation, relationships and obviously, the secrets behind EGO KILL TALENT formation and how he al...

Obie O’Brien is a Grammy-winning engineer and producer. While best-known for his longtime work with Jon Bon Jovi, Obie has a massive credits list including Barbra Streisand, The Marvelettes, Cole Redding, The Nighthawks, Alice Cooper, and many more. In 2010, Obie received a Grammy award for his engineering & production on Oh Happy Day, as well as a nomination for his work on Shawn Colvin’s record ...

Olly Smith is a professional drummer, guitarist and songwriter who has been performing since the age of fifteen.    In 2007 Olly Smith became backline tech for The Lauren Harris Band, fronted by vocalist Lauren Harris, daughter of Iron Maiden bassist and founder Steve Harris.    Olly worked for The Lauren Harris Band on the 2008 Iron Maiden - Somewhere Back In Time Tour at some of the world's larg...

Ruud Jolie is the lead guitarist of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation.