It seems that the music in London is starting to gestate again. People are unsure of the hope they feel for an industry that has been usurped from its founders by conglomerates of bastards. They sneeze and your song can be blown into money or wadded into a Ladies Size Kleenex.
We’ve been talking a lot about the idea of genre – the idea that it ISN’T any more, that it is becoming larger than the conscript or prescription that we’ve had for so long. The consensus is that we’ve nothing original anymore, the idea is that it’s been done before; the ideal is that we can make a cocktail of the prescription. We’ve been pretending to have fits in the pharmacy for a long time now, perhaps we need to acknowledge that the music we’ve got is very good medication. Especially when mixed. Don’t worry! I say, there are fighters and rebels making it better and making it matter a little bit more than the chatter in NME or “popular” mainstream choice. I believe we’re getting to a point where choice means exactly that: Popular Choice, chosen by the music population.
People like Jeremy Glover are at the vanguard of this whole shebang. He runs the Indy Music Awards which are taking place on the 15th of this month (May). With people like Joe Driscoll, Joana and the Wolf and the Light Years being pushed into the light with the help of the IMA’s Jeremy Glover, we thought we better find out the whys and hows in his head.
A short interview with the inimitable Jeremy Glover:
Joe Driscoll
