Jeff Smith, head of music at Radio 2, has told Music Week that the station is discovering artists and even creating genres because the music its 15m+ audience craves is not being delivered via ‘usual channels'.

By that, of course, he means record companies, and whilst his comments weren't an exercise in label bashing, he did say: “We have to find our own new music because we can’t just rely on it coming to us. So we seek it out ...