I’d like to start this week by saying hello and welcome to all the new people reading this blog and thanks for joining us. If your reading this blog for the first time and are thinking to yourself, what the hell is this crazy guy talking about and what the hell is he going on about, here is a little summary of OSOM:OSOM was created to bring awareness to the vast amounts of local musical talent that lies right beneath our nose, giving a voice to the small and unsigned artist/s allowing them the recognition and respect they deserve.
OSOM is not just for the new and unsigned artist/s, we would like to also welcome the lucky artists who make a living in music, recording studios, musical suppliers and most importantly the DIE HARD MUSIC FANS!
And if that got you hooked I suggest you have a read of the earlier blogs filled with more information.
Back to this weeks blog, well its going to be one you can all closely associate with whether you’re a singer, dancer, teacher, accountant we all seem to hit rock bottom some time and the feelings are always the same.
As I have stated before OSOM is a hobby, something I do to help, to potentially make things better for groups, bands, shops, venues, then during the day I work for the council. My rock bottom came last week after having the best ever birthday week away with my adorable fiancé. As we were camping there was always going to be no way of becoming engulfed in yet more work on my holiday and as Nicola quite rightly tells me ‘you need to switch off some times’ so I did.
The week away, the weather, the location, the company it all was amazing and so enjoyable and I thoroughly enjoyed doing nothing.
I do have to admit thought I did fall force to the power of music when the old guy across from us started playing a harmonica and in true Adam fashion I was right over there encouraging the old guy to play more. Having wanted a musical instrument and having already thought about a harmonica this was the perfect opportunity to purchase one, so I did.
Tangent over back to where I was…….
When we arrived back home I was overwhelmed with the thought of what was soon to come ……..work! My day job is not great at the best of times and it’s only the people I work with that make it bearable.
This feeling started to take over everything; I just didn’t want to do anything including working on OSOM. I dedicated so much time and effort in to OSOM and other project and at times it feels like a thankless job that leaves me wondering why?
I hate this feeling that sort of dark negativity that creeps in and explodes in to everything all at once. It’s like being at the point of no return or the fork in the road that life happens to throw at us every now and then, the decisions that make us what we rely are.
I have respect for any body at the same challenging cross roads whether its students taking exams or revising, new business struggling in the turbulent financial times or even the most over looked people parents struggling to take care of their families.
I’m a firm believer that anything is possible for anybody, it’s the attitude, motivation and self belief that determines whether you succeed or not and I’m sure as hell am not going to lose.
So I will continue to wage the war for local music and keep fighting the OSOM way, then next week we will go in to my addiction to Facebook fan pages and how I plan using them in the real world.
This blog is about the OSOM venture, the good and the bad, I feel that unless you truly understand what goes on within OSOM then people will not become interested and really love the OSOM venture.
Right I’m off to see if Kleenex will sponsor this blog lol and I promise I will not cry in the next blog.
All the best
Adam @ OSOM
Keeping Leicester Alive With Music
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