Fanshawe’s Music Industry Arts (MIA) program has always been a very popular program at the school with the upcoming fall term already being waitlisted.
The program has helped so many individuals ranging from singers, to record labels figure out what their passion is and help them achieve it.
Just this past weekend, the band Wishbone which has three MIA students headlined an event at the London Brewing CO. The event was ran by RN bookings which is a part of the record label Year6records which is also founded by a MIA student.
The program however, does have a lot of challenges for students. Especially with those bands which perform all the time.
The members of Wishbone outside of the London Brewing CO (Noah Paradis/XFM News)
Wishbone’s drummer Atilla, who is also in a second band did three shows in just two days. And even though he has a couple day break before his next performance he is still going to be super busy
“I will be living in the studios for the next week. It is a struggle”
One of bands guitarists Wyn, also mentions how often the band truly is working on music.
“When you’re a student in a band. The band feels like your entire life.”
With these challenges just impacting bands, what are the type of challenges others in the MIA program have? RN bookings founder Xae DC, describes some of the challenges he has as a record label.
“The biggest challenge I have is really just sleeping, I do my school work and I can break my day up into so many different parts. If I had a full twenty-four hours to make my days out of then I’d be fine, but the main thing is just trying to find time to sleep and wake up.”
Xae also used to be the only person that people would contact when it came to the record label but one day he made an announcement that helped him lessen his stresses.
“The biggest thing I did that helped me balance everything was talking to everyone and say I am not the only person you can go to, you can go to all these other people for other things and that really took a lot off my plate so that I can focus on what I need to do.”
Wishbone has shows on March 5 and 12 at Poacher’s Arms in London.
