11 November, 2005
Casual disdain
Last month I suggested that the 'internet revolution' of bands like the Arctic Monkeys achieving prominence through web-based self-promotion rather than via the manipulation of major record labels is nothing new – Marillion pioneered several major developments years ago.
In the Guardian, Alexis "Aren't I witty?" Petridis seems to address the point:
Selling music via a website became the province not of hip new bands, but old stagers considered defunct by their labels: Simply Red, Level 42, legions of wizened prog rockers. They were making a living, but the whole business still carried a slight taint, the modern equivalent of flogging your records from a car boot.
Ah well; Petridis was never a friend of Marillion, so one can't expect the courtesy of due credit.
Posted by Ministry at 08:56
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