Hi Stephen.please take the positives from this post. I am sayimg what i say to encourage you and not bring you down. I am being honest as i think you need to know why you are not getting the quantity of bookings that you want.

I went to your site and listerned to your performance of " Grown Accustomed to her face" Your performance is fine for private friends parties as they are already rooting for you but you will struggle to hit the mark if people are paying for your service unless you provide more than just the basic song.You need toi watch your timing too.

To win an audience over with just the music and no vocals is a hard thing to do and you need to be an outstanding musician.

Entertaining people (which is what you have to consider yourself as being paid to do in a OMB set up) is more than just about nice music. You have tomake people feel good and that takes personality and Charisma. You need to project that personality from behind a keyboard and you need to find some way of getting theaudience to participate and interact with you.That way you can gauge if they are feeling as good about the performance as you are. The statement you made about " something just isnt clicking "indicatses that you are not getting any feed back about your performance. Feedback is essentiall if you want to take your music carreer seriously. The good news is that you are not awful or you would definately get feedback !!The not so good news is possibly that people are being polite by saying nothing if they did not reaaly appreciate your performance.On your next gig , ask a friend to come tothe show and watch both you and the audience and ask them to feedback how they believe the audience participated or intereacted with the performance.


If you cant sing , then build something else into your show, like maybe telling jokes as wellas playing, or telling stories of the good old days (especially at retirement homes ) whilst playing appropriate music over the top. But you must interact with your audience. Best of luck mate.