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excellent, pass the champers
Just so I'm clear on this, you're against funding for any art forms which aren't profit making, you reckon we should get rid of funding which allows more creative freedom and helps lessen an artist's dependence on market demands. Do you honestly believe the best music, the only worthwhile music, is music which can turn a profit and we're better off without the rest? Seriously??
Marketing is a massive part of the music industry (as it is with most industries) and if a record label or agency elects to get behind a band there is a good chance they'll do well and become a financial success. It's important to remember that quite often the decision of whether or not a band will be signed is based on their image, the demographic they appeal to, how they fit into current pop culture trends as well as their music (e.g. James Blunt). There's nothing wrong with this as far as I'm concerned, this just how music as a business works and more power to them if a band can get some serious marketing muscle behind them to get their music out there. However, I would hate to live in a world where only music which makes the ring tone download top ten survives where only albums that sell out in Tescos as fast a Harry Potter books are considered worthy of existence.
Some of the most incredible music I have ever heard was by artists I had known little about before seeing them in venues with a capacity of less than 100 (not necessarily full either), promoted by organisations who never could have afforded to bring artists in from other countries or pay Irish artists a decent fee if it weren't for Arts Council funding. I don't just mean that there's some ok stuff out there if you take a chance once in a while, I mean hand on heart, some of the most amazing and innovative musicians alive today have played in this country's arts centres and local venues for a fairly reasonable ticket price over years.
Just so I'm clear on this, you're against funding for any art forms which aren't profit making, you reckon we should get rid of funding which allows more creative freedom and helps lessen an artist's dependence on market demands. Do you honestly believe the best music, the only worthwhile music, is music which can turn a profit and we're better off without the rest? Seriously??
btw who or what is the "establishment"?
Music network - what if I'm not interested in making myself bigger or more successful or more popular and I just want a grant to enable me to record and release an album as an artistic exercise and on the same scale as heretofore - would that count against me?
Ma fren, how long did you spend typing all that out as a non-response to your complete misreading of my statement?
I never said anything about 'profit making'. I'm of the view that on the whole the best music isn't made for profit and I don't see it in those terms, or the 'marketplace' or whatever other fuckin shite you're going on about. Trying reading what I said again with your head out of your hole this time.
Expect a flood of applications from here in time for the next deadline, sonope
nope
Didn't music network sponser a scheme in 08 where young bands could apply for grants to buy equipment for recording and such? I thought that was a great idea. I forget what the criteria was but if my memory serves me right it wasn't restricted to classical/jazz.
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