Sound
Half Deaf Clatch Tells Tales… That Damage His Bank Account
Clatch’s music won’t make him rich, but it’d be a poorer world without it (read more)
Articles by Peter Elliott
Features
Genres: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Box
Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox (read more)
Sound
Music Legal Opportunism (or Why I Own All Your Music)
Short of a buck? Why not dabble in the lucrative growth business of Music Legal Opportunism (read more)
Society
Old People are Dying, Pass me my Phone!
A culture of shared and retweeted grief stinks of narcissism, not compassion. (read more)
Sound
Your Band is Awesome Live, So Ban the YouTube Fan Footage
Well-meaning YouTubers could be wrecking your band’s reputation. Maybe it’s time to take control. Essay (read more)
Sound
Have You Hugged a Musician Today?
Kanye doesn’t like things near his bum, but otherwise, musicians need love. An essay on how to be a good fan. (read more)
Features
David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet
Bowie’s mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well (read more)
Sound
With a Rictus Grin and Another Pint: Surviving The Totally Democratic Bar
Should we complain if a lot of very average bands and soloists carry on in the belief that they are special? (read more)
Sound
Everyone Needs a Music Mentor
Celebrating those hand-waving friends who are always drumming on tables (read more)
Sound
Back Behind Your Guitars, Boys! The Sistas are Spreading the Blues
Britain’s got some great blues talent, but you have to look closely to locate the stand-up-all-by-yourself vocal guys (read more)
Society
UK Culture is Becoming a Dead Parrot. What do you want? Cash?
The Warwick report offers sensible guidelines for the future of UK Culture. But will anyone in power heed it? (read more)
Society
A Talent Show Without Talent. X Factor (Part two)
The society that allowed us to flourish creatively whatever our background or income is in rapid decline. That cannot be right. (read more)
Society
A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again
Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of embryonic talent. (read more)
Sound
The Blues Needs a National Presence
The UK blues world has some stupendous talent that should be playing both nationally and internationally (read more)
Society
Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?
Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures. (read more)
Sound
Don’t Blame Bonamassa : Tours, Tickets and Touts
PR and marketing people know full well how to get their talent to the right audience but while much of this can be done for free, more often than not someone, somewhere, sometime will have to sign a cheque to reach that goal. (read more)