Yesterday, someone sent me some documents relating to the bailouts Arts Council England gave Boiler Room in 2020. And there are quite a few things which you curiously won’t find mentioned by themselves or...
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So why DO you have to wait so long to get vinyl out of a record pressing plant these days? Staff shortages, lack of plants, Covid – and you can now add Jeff Bezos to the list!
One of the reasons I’ve pretty much stopped making music is because of the depressing realisation that there’s very little support for anything new. For example, back in the days of physical media, record...
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The price of signing to Defected? Spiller (of “Groovejet” fame) to appear at label’s Drumsheds Festival next month – but will anyone there even know what else he’s done?
Signing your track to Defected seems to mean that, at some stage, you have to appear at one of their events. Given Defected is now an events company with a record label at the...
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Want us to release your music? Then it’ll cost you $75 – and that’s not the only thing about Beige Music which has this blog’s spidey sense going…
One thing I immensely enjoy about blogging is that no one is constraining what I say. If I feel like writing about something, I don’t have to go through a team of editors first...
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Poor metadata’s STILL a problem, is it? I was warned about this very issue by one of my earliest supporters – and he died nearly four years ago…
Back when I was making music rather than writing about it, one of my earliest supporters was a DJ called Eddie Eaze Coleman. He was also a producer, a songwriter and a man who...
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After a fanzine from Shoom sold for £450 just days ago, a badge from one of Britain’s earliest house music supporters has appeared – but is it a Bobby Dazzler?
Last week, I told you about a rare Shoom club fanzine which had gone on sale at auction site eBay. It did pretty well in the end, selling at £450. Which, let’s face it,...
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Ticket touts must be tackled, says competition authority – but does the Government have the stomach for the fight which could follow?
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK have made an intervention this week on the subject of ticket touting. The gist of it? They think existing protections aren’t anywhere near strong enough and...
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Well, they do say the kids love techno! Is Timmy Regisford wanting to get more bookings in the popular genre the reason Derrick May was booked to play Shelter’s 30th birthday?
During the entire saga of Shelter announcing on their flyer that Derrick May was playing at their 30th birthday party, then their second flyer to say he wasn’t, followed by the discovery he still...
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall! A rare Shoom fanzine from 1988 is on sale on eBay – and Danny Rampling won’t be happy when he finds out who’s earning out of it…
There are times in life when a story arrives at the desk – well, inbox in this case – and you immediately feel compelled to write it up. This is one of those occasions,...
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Learning to live with the virus or rich (mostly) white men wanting to get back to making lots of money – what’s REALLY motivating the guests behind the “Co-Existing With Covid” show?
Over the past week or so, I’ve seen this programme being promoted quite heavily on social media. Which is ironic, because the show itself is much longer than anything normally being pushed on the...
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Isn’t £2.6billion enough money for you to live on, Daniel? Now Spotify is making clear it’s only interested in helping people out with money, questions are asked about what new artists should do…
Yesterday, I wrote about the Campaigns feature which Spotify are currently allowing a limited number of artists to test out – because they’re kind like that, obviously. This would basically put Spotify into a...
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Kelli Hand worked two jobs as well as being a DJ and producer, whilst the next generation’s elite earn bucketloads with a fraction of the talent – what gives?
The untimely death last week of Detroit producer and DJ Kelli Hand at the age of 56 helped focus the mind. Hand did not come from a background of money. She had to work...
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Are the richest DJs in the scene going to be charging MORE per gig after the pandemic? The question as many get back to work and start pondering about their previous schedules…
Many of the big DJs have started working again in the past few weeks as lockdown restrictions ease off both in Britain and elsewhere in the world. That’s disregarding the plague rave DJs who...
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This would be their specialist subject on Mastermind! Resident Advisor held a Zoom call the other day – and what was the topic of discussion? Err, how to squeeze money out of quangos…
Last year, Resident Advisor finally discovered they had no God-given right to exist. The pandemic took away huge swathes of their income almost overnight. Indeed, for a time, it looked like the company was...
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Brighton Music Conference is back next month – but why are people expected to fork out £100 for tickets when their own site can’t be bothered telling us what’s going on?
Music conferences have become a big thing over the past few years. Making music doesn’t make much money, but someone somewhere has worked out that talking about is a potential money raker. Hence why...
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Try not to U-turn just after this blog goes to print this time! 51st State are the latest to announce cashless wristbands – but why ARE festivals so keen to push this right now?
I’d better get this one written up and published as quickly as possible. 51st State Festival have a bit of a habit of changing their minds, as demonstrated on Thursday. It seems they’ve decided...
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