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A random little update.

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We've all heard of 'Working remotely'. What about living remotely... Is that a thing? Well, sometimes it feels like I'm 'Living remotely' as well. It's actually pretty cool though. I've spent many years traveling with work and living out of a suitcase. In 2019 we (my partner and I) sort out moved down to London, as I was always down in London working almost every week.. but at that time we were  in fact still dividing our time between Leeds and London. Then of course, we ended up in one place during the pandemic. Now that things are very much back to normal (what we can call normal) we are basically going back to the original plan and from the beginning of March, we are going to be once again dividing our time between Leeds and London. I really feel lucky to be able to say that I actually live in / divide my time, between London and Leeds. Not many people can say that they are self-employed and actually have a home in two different cities. Not to mention

Life of a Publicist

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 You work in PR and your job is to publicize. Except, how can you do that if your client doesn't send you the information. Information and communication is the key and the most important part of this. Yet people don't seem to understand that and some clients don't always seem to be bothered to put in the time to send the information over that is needed. Then you get the blame and told you're not doing your job.... but, how is it possible to do your job. Do THEY not want to move forward and develop. I'm putting this out there because I have had this experience with more than one client and this make it's harder for me to do my job. I'm all about connecting people and publiczing the information. Yet! That information is needed. Your an artist: You have an album, a tour, you want your name out there. Send the information! You run a venue: You have on events, you want to sell tickets. Send the information! Yesterday, I got an email (I can't share full detail