The Guardian in all it’s vile, thieving glory.
Rock dinosaurs clog up the festival stages and the airwaves with their safe, old repertoire, and even new bands are often picked by conservative music executives because they sound like the old. So why not redistribute this creative capital? Take a small cut from the next never-before-released Tupac track or Sex Pistols reunion gig and use it to fund innovators who are trying to push for something genuinely new?
No, you evil, thieving cunts. Absolutely, no! If new acts are good, people will buy their music and the artists will make millions. To steal from others – because that is what this execrable little rag is proposing – is morally indefensible. Everyone should make it by their own efforts not by stealing from others. And as for dinosaurs, well that is a matter of opinion and not one I share with the nasty scum over in Guardianland. And given the ongoing popularity of these rock dinosaurs, it is not shared buy the rest of us either. People buy their records and go to see them because they provide what we want to hear. Go fuck yourselves with some nicely sharpened razor wire you revolting mountebanks.
ha! an editorial – no less… ! nice to see a quality broadsheet tackling the issues of the moment in such a thoughtful and informed fashion – think they’ve jumped the calendar a bit though – the start of April is another couple of weeks away.
What a bunch of c….
HA HA HA is this a joke?
Ridiculous there is nothing new to fund that is the whole problem everything these days is banal trite foetus’s on stages miming.
Many young people like the old stuff because it is not all the same, they like it because it has heart unlike the modern equivalent.
Not everyone wants to listen to stuff that makes you want to upchuck into a paper bag and burst it over Simon (BLOODY) Cowells head.
Festival book the old acts because they pull crowds.
Download ( a magnificent heavy metal festival) champions new and old music.
But the crowds go for the old names something different or new just doesn’t exist any more.
Because all these little wannabes are after is 5 minuets of fame and a million pounds.
Pretty faces (mostly) with vacuous vapid brains who need telling when to eat sleep and shit because they are so stupid they can’t even tie their own shoe laces let alone write their own music and create something new.
Why should people with genuine talent subsidise the dross no one actually want’s to hear.
Ahhh I feel so much better now thanks LR (skips off to hoover)
Have a nice weekend all.
P.S I vote one direction and lil mix (WTF SORT OF NAMES ARE THOSE) are all tied into a sack with a large boulder attached and chucked into the sea of Brighton pier.
“Take a small cut … and use it to fund innovators who are trying to push for something genuinely new”
But isn’t that what they do already, effectively? The record companies make however much they make every year and then they’ll spend part of that pushing those new bands whom they think will be big enough to bring in yet more lucre. Of course, they’ll spend part of it on pushing tours by old established bands, too, but no record company wants to stop recruiting new blood altogether or else in a few years’ time when all the old bands have retired, split up, scaled down their activities, or died, they’ll end up as a record production company with no (or very few) bands to represent.
The trouble, as Kath points out above, is that there are very few new bands good enough for the record company to take a punt on. Don’t get me wrong, some are good musicians in their own right, but there are very few now producing the calibre of new material which is worth record companies investing in, i.e. there’s no lack of performance skills out there, but there is a really dire lack of genuinely top-quality creative talent of the kind which can produce music which is both popular in the here and now and stand the test of time. Can anyone honestly believe that any of the new music being produced today will still be being played on the radio in 20, 30 or 40 years’ time?
As usual, the left-leaning Guardian equates everything to money, as if creativity can be purchased like a commodity and basically not-exceptionally-creative artists can be turned overnight into the new Lennon & McCartney by throwing enough money at them. Doesn’t it ever occur to these people that the likes of L&M started their creative careers on pretty much a shoestring and drew their creativity from life experience and inspiration from the world and others around them, not from sackloads of cash from record companies. For sure, if there’s creative genius there, then the money helps to bring it to a wider audience, but the bottom line is that you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, no matter how much money you spend on the ear.
Precisely. But the communists at the Groan see everything as the responsibility of the state and the state can cure everything. It can make a purse out of that ear – given enough tax extorted from the “rich”.
If the mighty Quo are dinosaurs what does that make Marx and Lenin!?
Trilobites.
Trilobites had more brains.
Ammonites?
Obviously the goons at GMG favour what is in part the BBC “talent” funding model – hardly surprising really – what is surprising is that they didn’t call it a creativity tax…. In the meantime chimps are catching up fast (h/t Dick Puddlecote)
I was going to suggest Bullets For Teeth but I realised that they aren’t really new any more. They only did one album, Six Sides of Fortune, before they broke up, but it is a good one. I quite like Headspace and I think that the best rock song of the recent past is Midnight Black by Temperence Movement. So there is good newish stuff out there if you look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTrC5qMYyE