Opinions On Music Since October 2000. 🎧 Currently a podcast & newsletter & record label & community
May 26, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Music is an ecosystem.
Guestlists can:
📢 Be a thank you for helping to sell tickets
✍️ Help inform writing a feature read by 1000s
🖼 Become an iconic photo used on a record cover
🧦 The first coverage that leads to loads more media support, finding a team, getting signed…
Having run a label for most of the 00s, we should perhaps add that guestlist tickets are often bought by record companies to ensure entry for media coverage — despite promoters, booking agents, managers, publishers, and the artist benefitting long after labels are involved.
May 16, 2021 • 15 tweets • 10 min read
Ever felt like our flourishing music industry, which contributed £5.2bn to the UK economy in 2018, has been thrown under the Brexit bus?
It’s a shame that, unlike fishing (worth £437m to UK economy in 2019) our industry isn’t a priority.
🇪🇺 EU offered a “standard” Visa-free touring exemption
❌ Tories rejected it due to @pritipatel’s immigration crackdown
🇪🇺 “It is untrue to say they asked for something more ambitious”
❌ due to Visas, some acts may no longer tour the UK independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Wonder if Roger Daltrey’s g-g-generation will pay for some Visas so artists can tour europe in the future...?
Aug 4, 2020 • 25 tweets • 11 min read
“Ek’s saying that musicians need to look at themselves less as artists and more as content creators. We have no muse to serve but the marketplace, and without adhering to the rapid 💓 rate that is Spotify’s demand for new food for their algorithm, our careers are bound to perish”
“some streaming services that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can't a (re)launch new groundbreaking music platform once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” @eldsjal
Mar 20, 2020 • 31 tweets • 23 min read
🚨 Today is the day to find your new favourite record. 🚨
Bandcamp are waiving all of their fees, so all day we’re going to recommend a pile of albums and suggest artists we love for you to - ahem! - DiScover.
Join in by sharing some of your favourites too 👇
Before we begin this rolling thread of suggestions to dip and dive into, here’s @Bandcamp’s statement daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandc…
