Music Warehouse Burns, and NOW it’s Bad?
[Warning: long rant which, if you are just here for the music, you may not want to bother reading.]
It seems an awful lot of music people are suddenly really quite horrified by the rioting in London now that the Sony warehouse has burned to the ground and suddenly most of the best indie labels in the country are facing a serious, and in some cases potentially fatal, financial injury.
Some of the people running the labels affected are my friends, I am really concerned for them, and you know (or you should) by now how highly I value independent music. A lot of the larger indies will have the buffer, both financial and in terms of having access to spare stock in other places, that this will not be ruinous to them. Smaller labels, on the other hand may well not be so lucky. Read the rest of this entry »
