making a living as an unsigned band

Is it possible to make a living from your band if you do not have a record or publishing deal?

Of course it is, you may not gross millions but it is certainly possible to make a decent wage working as a full time band and by this I do not mean selling out and playing covers in hotel lobbys.

The key to this depends on a couple of things though

1. at least one member of the band must have some business sense or you will need someone who does to come along for the ride (manager?)

2. you must be prepared to travel and work hard, gigging is going to be a major source of income and promotion.

But if all the band are willing to commit then it can be done.

But dont forget you need to make enough for everyone in the band, travel costs, accomadation costs etc.

you wll need to setup your own label for releases, your own publishing, your own merchandise, your own website as well as playing maybe 3 or 4 gigs a week!

If this sounds like a lot of work then you had best stick to mailing out your demos!