Look, Why is the arc of creativity disproportionate to success?

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The music industry has, quite clearly, lost its way as we delve deeper into the 21st Century. The public, force-fed a diet of Soap-opera schooled second rate singers and exploitative talent show wannabes would not know a true Superstar now if one came along and bit them in the ass. You can't blame them. How could you be blamed for loving an abacus if you'd never been shown a computer? The indoctrination of the masses by means of the dreaded playlist has presented us with a fait accompli - namely the "dumbing down" of our pop and rock culture, Radio and TV becoming a slave to the lowest common denominator.

How is our young generation going to be inspired? Musicians are no longer the icons. It is now the vacuous footballer, deemed "intelligent" if they can string two words together. Worse still, the cult of the non-celebrity. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...Jade Goody. I have one question, in the name of god, why?

The problem with being fed a diet of vapid, talentless individuals, used as vehicles for soulless, factory farmed songs lining the pockets of a few individuals, (yes, Im talking about you, Simon "I gave the world Mr. Blobby" Cowell, see picture for the full horror, and remember, this latex creature got to NUMBER ONE)

is that no-one has any aspirations to be anything anymore. They don't want to achieve anything, they just want to be famous. "Hey I'll show my arse in the jungle and eat a kangaroo testicle! just get me on the telly" is the baying hordes rejoinder. A generation of children are saddled with the names Kylie and Jason. Australian soap actors dominated our music charts in the 80's. Doesn't it make you want to weep? The country that gave the world Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles The Stones...you can't hear this stuff on the radio, but you can hear the bloody woolpackers from Emmerdale Farm. God help us all. So, in a small way, to redress the balance, here's a few names for you, not so new, some quite old, but, if you care about quality music, and people who make it for the love of making a good record, look up a few of these.


Glenn Hughes, Trapeze, Jess Roden (see picture), Owsley, Dan Reed Network(see picture),


Mothers Finest, Jellyfish, Francis Dunnery, It Bites, Aimee Mann, Kip Winger, India Arie. Its out there, you just have to look. Don't be a slave to the rhythm of your radio.