Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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If you’re successful then obviously you must have done some kind of Faustian thing that disqualifies you from credibility.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
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Beyond an acceptable level of reproduction nobody cares much about sound quality other than audiophiles and snobs.
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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The assumption that production is easy because the instruments are cheap is ignorant.
Monday, 12 September 2011
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ProTools is an incredible instrument but achieving mastery over it is no mean feat.
Thursday, 8 September 2011
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Copyright was irrelevant for most of us.
Sunday, 21 August 2011
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Studio people have been fixing the intonation of performers for decades.
Monday, 1 August 2011
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Winehouse was too much the waster.
Saturday, 30 July 2011
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Imagine is as much rooted in John Lennon’s disillusionment as it is in his idealism.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
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It was incredible that for a few decades in the 20th Century a young man could rise to such heights.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Adele gets spun by critics as the real thing not like your typically hyped pop star.
Saturday, 11 December 2010
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Vashti’s attractiveness is clear. She comes over as a lovely person, delicate, beautiful and modest.
Saturday, 13 November 2010
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Occasionally a work appears to be of such outstanding character to be of universal value. Nimrod might be one such.
Friday, 12 November 2010
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Many of those who talk about music bring so little insight to the fore.
Sunday, 7 November 2010
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Festival organisers Ubi Dwyer and Sid Rawle both did jail time for their radicalism. I salute their endeavour.
Saturday, 6 November 2010
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I had the privilege of recording some of the great British jazzers.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
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Asking people to pay what they want is not a begging bowl.
Friday, 17 September 2010
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It’s as if the hipster never quite got beyond being a picky fifteen year-old in high school.
Sunday, 15 August 2010
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Outside of the big league and its casino culture, records were not wealth generators.
Monday, 19 April 2010
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Art works are ultimately public goods.
Sunday, 11 April 2010
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Music is about what you feel.
Friday, 18 December 2009
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A very small fraction of musicians got on the record business gravy train.
Saturday, 12 December 2009
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The loan will be non-returnable but fully recoupable.
Tuesday, 8th December 2009
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Music might now return to its traditional roots, to a participation activity in which anyone can be involved.
Monday, 30 November 2009
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There is a clear distinction to be made between a recording and a copy of a recording.
Tuesday, 17th November 2009
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The digital revolution has only just began to impact on the society that has seen its inception.
Sunday, 8 November 2009
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The future will be fashioned from the values of the mass of professionals and amateurs in the minor leagues.
Friday, 30 October 2009
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Seek payment for your work from those who would have you make it.
Sunday, 14 October 2007
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Tony Wilson went about his business with a belief in possibility bordering on unreal.
Tuesday, 6th October 2009
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What matters is that artists can get paid consistent with their worth.
Sunday, 4th October 2009
Authenticity & The Recorded Work
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Nowhere is there more bullshit spouted than in music criticism.
Thursday, 24th September 2009
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The age of the golden egg is over.
Wednesday, 2nd September 2009
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Paying creative individuals for their work makes sense. Society wants their output and creatives want to give it.
Saturday, 29th August 2009
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All you really need is legitimate access to what you need as you need it.
Friday, 28th August 2009
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The future has truly arrived.
Saturday, 27 June 2009
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The average radio jock is an empty-headed moron with nothing useful to say on anything.
Friday, 26 June 2009
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To see Michael Jackson reduced to a circus freak was depressing.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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The commercial recording has become an economically devalued entity.
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
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Anyone can now produce and distribute their own work easily.
Saturday, 2 February 2008
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Beyond a certain threshold of talent the value of music is determined by factors other than the music itself.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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Art and commerce are different aspects of the same thing.
Friday, 8 June 2007
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All music has its time and there was no time like The Beatles.
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
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Art does not die because there is no more art, it dies because there is too much. (Jean Baudrillard)
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
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The days of greatness are over in music. This is the age of ordinary.
Monday, 4 June 2007
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It is becoming almost uncool to be accomplished.
Sunday, 4 February 2007
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An entire new paradigm for music-makers was on its way. Who would have thought it?
Saturday, 20 January 2007
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Scotland has enormous untapped potential in music most of which goes to waste.
Thursday, 26 October 2006
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Ultimately, making a meaningful connection is the measure of any piece of art.
Monday, 23 October 2006
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We should make sure our young artists can work by paying for them to do so rather than commercialising them.
Monday, 23 October 2006
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The little Hitlers of the art-world should fuck off.
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
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The Myspace phenomenon is as much problem as solution.
Saturday, 2 September 2006
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Instead of using music as something that connects they prefer it to be divisive.
Tuesday, 20 December 2005
The Pretensions Of Art-Poppers
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The art-pop bands whose value is fostered by the credibility people are probably the most pretentious of all.
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
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In a world predicated on psychological health, what need for music?
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
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Peer-to-peer is an alternative form that subverts conventional systems of supply and transaction.
Sunday, 27 February 2005
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My way of making music is like a jigsaw where firstly I “hear” a fragment of the completed picture.
Saturday, 15 January 2005
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For the first time in over two-hundred years, popular music no longer reinvents.
Saturday, 8 January 2005
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The people who make art should be those who are in some way removed.
Wednesday, 22 December 2004
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The very separateness of artists and their coming from an alternative perspective is part of what gives them their relevance
Tuesday, 15 June 2004
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I don’t use music as a way of identifying myself with the tribe like many who are serious about it seem to do.
Wednesday, 2 June 2004
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A watershed year in popular music.
Monday, 17 May 2004
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The idea that the authenticists might represent a more elevated form of the art is nonsense.
Saturday, 15 May 2004
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When people see the activity around what I do they immediately assume ‘techie’.
Saturday, 17 January 2004
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File sharing brings back a small element of mutuality in that you are able to access another person’s collection and share in their choices.
Sunday, 5 October 2003
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Sharing of music has a long tradition, much longer than the recorded work and the commodification of art.
Wednesday, 9 July 2003
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Music has no need to be subversive now as the thing it might subvert has already keeled over.
Thursday, 22 May 2003
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There are none more self-conscious and manufactured than your average indie band on the make.
Saturday, 22 March 2003
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Music is not believed in now. It’s just another form of entertainment.
Friday, 28 February 2003
Edward Kealey On Studio Engineers
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I never knew an engineer who wasn’t pissed off in his place.
Thursday, 30 January 2003
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There are some records that have more potential for commercial success than others. None have a guarantee.
Friday, 10 January 2003
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Prog is like the great Shakespearian epic. Punk is reality television.
Friday, 29 November 2002
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If an artist’s work isn’t commodified and recognised it doesn’t exist.
Thursday, 7 November 2002
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Hit records are what the world of popular music is all about.
Monday, 14 October 2002
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When Jones and Jackson came together to make Off The Wall it seemed to me an obvious pairing.
Friday, 18 January 2002
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The most interesting insight of Napier-Bell’s book is his argument that relationship is key to success.
Wednesday, 24 October 2001
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Kylie comes over such a perfect little package: sweet and nice but still cool and jokey enough to be ironic.
