We are writing a book!

It is true.

I am writing a book about the music business.

So far the title is : Ego versus Emo

Or

I hate the radio. Why don’t they play decent music anymore

I thought I would throw an unedited snippet on the blog this week as I haven't been able to add to the rest of the rubbish I usually write.

Advance order being taken - free if you want one for now. Loads of $ when its a real tome.



"When you do go to a convention - having parted with a few hundred dollars and probably a few thousand more on air fares and hotel rooms and meet the great and powerful I think you might be surprised at how many of them wear Hawaiian shirts.

An amazing amount of really key guys in the music business (and it is almost always guys) are getting on in years and have obviously had a few too many power breakfasts. I genuinely think that most of them are committed and really believe in what they are saying but the reality on the ground is very different from the reality in the boardroom.

The biggest problem facing anyone from Gen X or younger these days is that the boomers will not just fuck off and die. They hang in there with their Woodstock jargon and big pensions and desperately try to defend themselves from the future. I don’t blame them but if they had any sense at all they would all have retired years ago and left music to their kids. Instead we are force fed the same snoring songs.

Bob Dylan has been given his own show on XM satellite radio.

Why?

Because he is a known name that the boomers identify with. If you are younger than 40 you might never have heard of him and why would you.

It is time to retire fossils!

I should know. I am rapidly catching up and I am so cranky it’s hard to relate to some new music. If I was in charge of the radio I would play Stone Roses back to back man. (Not really but you get the idea)."