Category: Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk: The PROBLEM with Buying Music Concert Tickets **explained**
Ticket touts, bots, frozen accounts, reserved numbers, pricing. There has been recurring problems for purchasing music concert tickets for a long time. But it all came to a head recently… When Taylor Swift put on her sprawling Era world tour, she certainly wasn’t expecting it to crash the Ticketmaster servers completely. Consumers were washed and […]
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Let’s Talk: Will the UK’s energy bill crisis affect our independent music venues?
“The uncertainty is the worst thing.” Today, The Guardian released a conversation piece surrounding an example venue of Band on the Wall in Manchester as our grass-root venues up and down the country face difficulty in startling energy prices skyrocket in order to maintain the upkeep of an already struggling venue industry. On an annual […]
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Clash or Pistols: Who was more righteous with their music?
The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but The Clash were the real definitive British punk rockers. Brash, fiery and bolstered with an outlaw image, they were charged with a certain righteousness that only a select few punks were able to pull off. Despite a band that seemingly had “traditional” […]
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Your New Music Friday: 08/07.
Evening folks! I’ve got a special one for you here.. a quick NMF review of two stand-out songs that were released today. But the writing credit doesn’t go to me this time. Oh. No. It goes to my other half, my girlfriend, who has picked up the duty tonight for one time only – or […]