The algorithms driving music to the masses that it wants them to hear for maximum revenue creation. It’s all very depressing when I see the struggles that a lot of the UK grassroots acts have to endure.
Fantastic piece. We're a funny little nation that punches above its weight, as our unusual mix of cultures and attitudes leads to invention and uniqueness. I've been using the phrase 'remix nation' to sum this up for a bit, and I still think it holds true. When we synthesise and get things 'wrong', we come up with new wonderful music.
That's our feature - not our bug - we just need to focus on this and fund it.
(Small pedant note: you've got a rogue 's' in para 5, line 2) ;-)
When Warners announce that UK A&R (in its hollowed out, data led form) reports into the US you know UK artists are in trouble.
Whilst promoters and agents (and noticeably national and regional funding organisations) become increasingly ‘risk’ averse, signing or booking endless sound-a-likes or heritage or covers bands, and the audience for ‘different’ seems increasingly to dwindle it’s difficult to see from where the change is going to come.
The algorithms driving music to the masses that it wants them to hear for maximum revenue creation. It’s all very depressing when I see the struggles that a lot of the UK grassroots acts have to endure.
Fantastic piece. We're a funny little nation that punches above its weight, as our unusual mix of cultures and attitudes leads to invention and uniqueness. I've been using the phrase 'remix nation' to sum this up for a bit, and I still think it holds true. When we synthesise and get things 'wrong', we come up with new wonderful music.
That's our feature - not our bug - we just need to focus on this and fund it.
(Small pedant note: you've got a rogue 's' in para 5, line 2) ;-)
When Warners announce that UK A&R (in its hollowed out, data led form) reports into the US you know UK artists are in trouble.
Whilst promoters and agents (and noticeably national and regional funding organisations) become increasingly ‘risk’ averse, signing or booking endless sound-a-likes or heritage or covers bands, and the audience for ‘different’ seems increasingly to dwindle it’s difficult to see from where the change is going to come.
..."this is not a miracle"