Founder of @drownedinsound | Consultancy @ccclxmusic | artist manager | previously BBC, Sunday Times... | He/Him
Mar 18, 2023 • 29 tweets • 12 min read
In music journalism, people have invented genres and movements for decades
It’s unsurprising to now see the Daily Mail is constructing a group called the “New Elite” to hate
Some analysis…
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For starters, it’s worth noting that this Daily Mail contributor is part of Toby Young’s Free Speech Union
He’s also been criticised for normalising the far right
Mar 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Let’s be honest
People in the music industry are often “winging it”
But in recent months it has felt like there’s an existential crisis about where to invest time, focus energy and spend marketing money
What’s working for you?
What’s your current strategy?
Every artist & release campaign is different
But discovering the kernel at the heart of a project is always crucial
Then the job is finding ways to tell that story or allude to it with visual language
Sometimes in fragments over time
Often in short form summaries over & over
Mar 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Did the chancellor really just say he wants to make it easier for AI developers to get access to material without the barriers of Intellectual Property?
Maybe I misunderstood.
A recent report suggested we should pause data mining in our creative industries
Still no update on Johnson’s book that he was too busy writing to attend COBRA meetings at the start of Covid but the author and title have now been anonymised in Amazon’s database
