Elbow leader says formula is uns sustainable and teams fight for their careers
Last Monday, November 30, 2020 at 14:51 GMT
Music enthusiasts will be willing to pay more for the songs they love in the streaming era, according to Elbow’s Guy Garvey, who says the next generation of bands is lost because they can’t keep their career in the current weather.
Garvey, who testified last week in an investigation through the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports into the effect of the broadcast, told The Guardian that he thought facilities like Spotify and Apple Music were not charging enough.
“The big picture is that 10 euros a month to access all the music is very little,” he said. “It came out in commission the other day: everyone feels a little guilty about having access to all this music for nothing. “It is not sustainable and the urgency is that we lose artists because they are demoralized and cannot live. “
Garvey pushes for a fair payment in which transmissions are divided 50/50 between labels and bands, meaning that a percentage goes directly to the other people who made the record. He called it “a reliable source of revenue that has nothing to do with labels or the streaming platform, it’s a right. “
The fair payment already applies to the use of transmission in the UK, and Garvey and others who have testified, adding the founder of the #BrokenRecord crusade, Tom Gray de Gomez, will extend to the broadcast.
Garvey is convinced that a new consensus can be reached between labels, artists and consumers, and sees the moment as an opportunity to make music more sustainable for artists.
He said: “What we want to do is communicate to everyone who has created this amazing way of listening to music. . . because it’s an opportunity to do the right things, which hasn’t been right for a hundred years. “
Elbow was formed in the early 1990s and made a call for himself with his first album, Asleep in the Back, from 2001, which won the Mercury Prize. Garvey praised the record corporations he worked with and said they had been able to feed the band and get them. play in pubs with great appeal and a critically acclaimed band.
He said: “It’s about connecting the music with your audience and Elbow has had a lot of record companies to do this. They know what they’re there to do and they’re proud of it. It’s just that we drop the ball between us. “
Garvey said the revealing moment for many was when MPs heard that even if they only listened to one or two albums on a streaming site, their subscription fees would basically pass to larger artists.
“People don’t realize that their artists don’t get their money and they want it repaired,” he said. “I think it will be corrected and it will be the labels, the artists and a little government, and it will also be the transmission platforms, and it will be the consumers who will fix it.
Garvey said that in the run-up to Brexit, he believed there would be an artistic passport for British and European artists so that visitors would not be charged with higher visa costs. “There is no DEPUTY who should be noticed for not loving music, ” he said.
“Everyone wants to get organized, that’s all. So we’re going to have to find some kind of artistic passport that doesn’t involve too many documents or no money. And it has to be carried out quite temporarily and last until we succeed in Europe. “