Blog: The Pop Cop

You only have to cast an envious glance at the awards ceremonies that seem to be happening every other night to realise the entertainment business is a world of profit and excess. And if you're making plenty of the former, you can never have too much of the latter. Yet make no mistake, the music industry is currently fighting an increasingly desperate battle to reinvent itself in whichever direction maximises its need for financial exploitation. The supposed saviour - live music - isn't an indestructible cash cow after all, certainly not in Scotland given the recent [...]

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