Congratulations all round; Adele's superb Bond song (the best in 20 years - the last good one was The Living Daylights from A-Ha).

Mumfords (I don't quite get them); I gather my old friend Daniel Glass is involved.

My moan? Everyone ignores the Grammys these days. Ordinary TV, like The Brits. God we need some inspiration and imagination in the music industry.

JK2006 wrote:
Congratulations all round; Adele's superb Bond song (the best in 20 years - the last good one was The Living Daylights from A-Ha).

Mumfords (I don't quite get them); I gather my old friend Daniel Glass is involved.

My moan? Everyone ignores the Grammys these days. Ordinary TV, like The Brits. God we need some inspiration and imagination in the music industry.

I mostly ignore the Grammys because it celebrates clever marketing rather than art.
Already it is near impossible to get airplay if you are independent,and it is difficult to get a gig unless you are a mostly covers band,a cabaret singer with an agency, or even worse, a *spits* tribute artist.
They didn't even show the more obscure nominations, which i would have liked to see.

You don't need airplay all the time and you will always get some airplay.
COncentrate on doing your thing building up your fans organically and it will come.
Alex Day and even Gotye are fine examples of this in action.

Actually Alex deeply depressed by virtually total lack of support. Three top 30 singles; annual sales of over 400,000 yet nothing from radio.

Radio producers are almost always an obstacle. Often it's impossible to get airplay. It's why Cowell created Idols/Idol/X-Factor.

NCS wrote:
Radio producers are almost always an obstacle. Often it's impossible to get airplay. It's why Cowell created Idols/Idol/X-Factor.

It has created an audience that thinks every pop performance they see is to be judged as if it is a competition, and yet most cant tell the difference between singing in tune or stepping on a cat unless Gary Barlow tells them what to think.
The show is great fun, but it does give the impression that being an ordinary busy performer is somehow tragic.

Radio producers/presenters have not always been so restricted with what they can play,and I dont think there is any need for it to be so heavily controlled. I think you give a better performance if you are involved in the choice of records and responding to what the listeners want.

He has had the same experience Gotye had. I was surprised when I read
that commercial radio in Australia ignored the single. A lot of radio
producers are zombies. They cannot think for themselves at all. Ah well
into oblivion they shall plunge.