Why small communities could be the key to breaking future scenes and talent

I fed 900+ comments into ChatGPT to run a sentiment analysis, and the results are… telling.

How this next step might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back

Doomsaying articles are correct… but we need get past that now

A proposal for how the music industry can decrease its reliance on Big Tech and build better relationships with fans

Quitting Spotify and engaging with a more emotionally affecting approach to listening to music

Unpicking the complex issue of fake streams and false claims

I have an idea… and I'm curious if you feel it might work.

The full presentation I gave at Music Ally's Connected event this week

Why the Universal/Downtown deal affects considerably more than just indie labels

The Beggars Group head dropped me a line with his thoughts, shared in full below

Plus: some predictions for 2024

Another collection of indie stalwarts shifts across to the majors

How UK music is losing a culture battle and what we can do about it.

Unpicking Keith Jopling's vision for the music industry's future

The state we are in, and the positive paths forward

Does it have a case, and is the wider rhetoric from Universal warranted?

As companies sidestep Merlin for deals with TikTok, what does this say about our trade bodies in general?

The core problem affecting the music industry is something we should be discussing more.

An epitaph for the indie stalwart as it becomes another piece in Universal's empire