Friday, February 13, 2004
Alex Blur rails against the Brits. To be honest, who cares? We're going through a period of smothering corporate control of what music we get to see on mainstream TV and radio, with them also trying to stop me hearing music online despite the fact that most of the albums I have or will buy in the immediate are stuff I heard from Flux, Said the Gramaphone or Radio Three's Mixing It.If it gets worse before it gets better there is only one way this will end. The major record label's stranglehold will hurt their bank balance and their ability to control the market will loosen and let fresh talent in again. Optimistic pessimism see? The Brits and the Mercury and everything, they were always bollocks. The only difference was when Jarvis Cocker wiggled his bumat Michael Jackson, they were entertaining bollocks.
