So you want to be broke? - Your guide to living the indie musician life

I decided to start a new series as part of this blog, giving advice on surviving life as an ultra indie musician, based on my experiences with The Miss Bennets and based on my 10ish years (OMG) of obsessively following and supporting independent Canadian musicians. I hope someone out there finds this useful or at least entertaining. Lets Begin!

Chapter one: Finding sweet musician digs

Our lovely 100 and something year old apartment in Halifax

Finding the perfect pad is hard enough for a regular person, but if you're a musician its even more of an uphill battle. First of all, you have no money. This makes it difficult to put down first and last months rent on an apartment and generally being poor limits how nice a place you're going to find in any city.