Write Record Release Repeat – Episode 2: Playing Live & Touring

Hi, hello, and welcome to Write Record Release Repeat — our little podcast about music, songwriting, recording, touring, life, and generally staying sane as an artist, past and present.

My co-host Salim Nourallah is a singer, songwriter, producer, and studio owner from Dallas, Texas. He's been releasing fantastic music since 2000, when his first album as Nourallah Brothers (with his brother Faris) came out on Western Vinyl. I discovered that record, along with his first solo album, in 2004 — and ended up signing him to my label, Tapete Records, in Hamburg, Germany. We released four of his albums and brought Salim over to tour Germany and Europe. That's when we finally met.

My name is Dirk Darmstaedter. I'm a singer, songwriter, and producer from Hamburg. I was part of The Jeremy Days back in the late '80s and '90s — we recorded five albums for Polydor/Universal and toured extensively throughout Europe, the UK, and a bit in the US. Since 1996, I’ve been releasing solo albums and ran Tapete Records and Tapete Booking from 2002 to 2014.

In Episode 2, Salim and I talk about playing live and touring. We cover quite a few bases here, — from booking indie tours through West Texas to playing Kulturklubs in Aachen, Germany. What's the motivation to keep doing this in pretty trying times?

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