In recent years, the editor of Music Week has been able to make their end-of-year address a positive one.
The music industry has been thriving; the long, dark years of ...
Here’s a controversial opinion for you: it’s still too bloody early to put your Christmas tree up.
Your correspondent is sadly old enough to remember a time when most people ...
Most modern music executives don’t seek the limelight in the way that, say, Tony Wilson, Alan McGee or Simon Cowell once did.
But sometimes the limelight – or more accurately, ...
Lord alone knows good news has been in short supply in 2020. And, while there’s still plenty of misery around, the announcement of a possible coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer and ...
News that the House Of Commons Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee will investigate the streaming sector raises the prospect of big changes in digital music. In her latest must-read ...
It was supposed to be a lot easier than this.
The wait for the result to be called may have been agonisingly long but, finally, a Joe Biden presidency was ...
I attended my first press conference since the first UK lockdown last week.
It was efficiently and safely organised by the Outside Organisation, and The Damned (pictured on stage ...
We’re getting used to bombshell announcements from the government these days. But the news that the DCMS committee will investigate the streaming sector still caused shockwaves through the biz, despite ...
A thought occurred to me when mourning the sad death of Eddie Van Halen last week: he’s probably one of the last musicians to ever become world famous purely ...
Mercury Prize ceremonies have a tendency to blur into one, but the 2020 version was like none of the others we’ve experienced over the years.
So there was no ceremony ...
