How was your weekend? Perhaps you enjoyed your first pub pint for over three months and finally had a proper haircut. But, whatever you got up to, you still wouldn’t ...
It’s boom time for boomers. Bob Dylan and Neil Young are at the top of the charts and everywhere you look, back catalogue classics and Greatest Hits sets are dominating ...
Lockdown has taught us many things. But amidst the constant Groundhog Days of Zoom calls and crossed out diary entries, it has been particularly good for realising the things you ...
Finally, after 12 long weeks of lockdown, your favourite record shop is probably open again. The reopening of 'non-essential' retail is a welcome sign of normality returning after weeks ...
‘Follow the money’ is always good advice for any music business journalist. But, these days, it’s also increasingly challenging.
Warner Music Group’s successful IPO last week showed that not even ...
One thing about all this time in isolation is, it gives you plenty of time to think.
Forcing the music world indoors at a time when we would normally be ...
It was the final, inevitable cancellation of Reading & Leeds Festivals that did it for me.
That was the definitive signal that this summer is a write-off as far as ...
Boris Johnson's lockdown address last night contained little of substance for the music industry.
While the Prime Minister did announce some minor lifting of restrictions, it won't be until June ...
If the old stockmarket adage that ‘good investing is boring’ is true, there are some reassuring signs for public music companies right now.
Because, while the stockmarket crash for various ...
“You make your money in live.”
As music industry received wisdom goes, that phrase has served people pretty well over the last two decades, as first piracy and then streaming ...
