hipsterdiet:

1. Play solo, or duo, and sound amazing that way. Not easy, but bands eat money. You need to tour cheap, but your show still has to be tremendous.

2. Write songs. Noise jams are lovely, but your favorite artists who toured for a long long time wrote songs (and lots of the great noise artists did, too). If you have a long life playing shows, your crowd will, alas, grow up. Kids who go to shows see fashion, hotness, and audacity; grown-ups who go to shows hear songs.

3. Don’t be wasted all the time. Drunken adventures with friends = completely valid (seriously, no snark), but you’ve got work to do.

4. Work like a motherfucker.

5. Be in love with it. The arduous travel part isn’t for most people; you have to genuinely love to live this way. If you don’t love it, it’s not worth it. If you do love it, you’ll get art and performance and sublime connection in your life, too.

(via Vice)