I look
through NME 2012 ( or Q also) and I am so bored of the music coming out from
the London labels these days – the predictable rock bands, samey pop for
the tweeny market, and the introspectiveness of the guitar singer songwriter.
There is little original. it is all to a preset
formula - like a recipe that worked before and saying ‘well let’s
just stick with what we know will sell.’ It is boring and samey.
Any true
creativity offering something new never happens in the mainstream but rather in
the peripheral edges.
There are
the performers - Let Me Entertain You Robbie - and then is there is the
real side of art and music the writers and creatives and that interests
me.
As Joni Mitchell said, you can’t
start out wanting to be both. Elton,
Carly Simon, Dylan and Emeli Sande all started out as writers and later were
performers also.
