I am saying used to because I am not doing the whole band management thing anymore. Swarathma has grown too big, and as a heavy duty professional outfit, they need a professional manager and not a novice who is prone to constantly putting his foot in mouth, and someone who is naive and tactless beyond compare.
I qualify for all those undesirable traits in a band’s manager, and ergo I am on my way out. I had placed a previous caveat about how it is that I would want out when the band grew big, because I would’t be able to balance my tech job, my freelance writing and my own musical forays with this artist management stint, for it would be as full time as I could imagine.
I wouldn’t be able to give up most of my other activities / interests / passions in lieu of this opportunity, and I had the thankful premonition to define my exit criterion explicitly, and the time is nigh for the criterion to have taken shape.
Now the band is in the process of commencing work with a new manager, and I can only wish them all the best. It was fun when it lasted, and the association, I hope helped them positively.
The onus now shifts to playing bass and recording scratch tracks for Arth and seeing where our musical forays would take us forward.
There is always a bright side to everything that transpires, including my now not being Swarathma’s manager.
In other news, my jet-lagged ass is returning to Bangalore, to start anew from where I left off.
