March Self-Registration Of Tourism And Mental Health Guidelines

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JAKARTA - A book designed to support the mental health of tour musicians will be released this spring.

The book entitled Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual explores the impact of the tour on musicians' mental health.

The 600-page book, written by psychotherapist Tamsin Embleton, includes interviews with musicians such as Nile Rogers, Four Tet, Philip Selway of Radiohead, and many more.

The book's synopsis reads: A comprehensive tour and mental health guide for musicians will help artists, tour managers, production managers, crew, and a team of artists identify and address the various psychological difficulties that can occur during or as a result of the tour.

Written by psychotherapists, performance trainers, vocal trainers, dietitics, psychologists, and sleepologists, sexual health experts, and addiction experts, this important book provides practical guidance, resources, psychoed education, diagrammatics, illustrations, and sketches of leading tour musicians and personnel figures.

Speaking via JamBase, Radiohead's Selway said about the upcoming books;

"Had this book existed when I first started the tour... This should be the first thing we all have to endure when we go to the streets,"

The book is scheduled to be published in March this year.