“What is a band if not a brand, composed of three product lines: singles, albums and tours? Record companies generally lose money releasing and promoting singles – they are little more than adverts for albums. When you consider that most musicians do not really make serious money from album sales unless they are shifting units like James Blunt, then albums begin to seem like nothing more than adverts for tours, where artists can really start to coin it in.”
Tag: 09.29.06
Kennedy – All About The Music
The violinist Kennedy has always been flamboyant. “You only have to spend a short time in Kennedy’s company to realise that, for all his famed irreverence, he actually takes culture very seriously indeed. It’s those who approach the arts in a falsely reverential fashion who are the real philistines, he claims.”
ArtWorld Comes To Leipzig
Germany’s Leipzig Art Academy has become an artworld Mecca. “Academic art used to mean staid and stuffy. Now it means hot and hip, at least when it comes to works by graduates from the Academy.”