By getting the wording, timing and tone of the online license wrong, the prs has undermined its position when it comes to other arguments it is publicly having

Once again the music industry would benefit from speaking to and not for artists. We get it you used to be us once. Some of us are us still. The landscape has changed to a place of nuance and of tech efficiency and empowerment.

Don’t destroy the ecosystem by ignoring the insects, a lesson to us all.

My 15 year old deal doesn’t work in a streaming landscape but most young artists I work with have effective deals. The streaming licence works for large scale events but not for independent artists or grass roots venues.

This is a rights agreement conversation with clear solutions but too many in the music industry confuse market share with collective bargaining and then use independent or grass roots music as a shield when their power grabs fail.

I’m over it. I’m glad I got up before 8 on my birthday to say this on the radio before it got pulled. So happy birthday to me. You can burn 2 (two) bridges as a treat.

I wish the music industry bodies would stop playing chess with my career based on political aspirations and non holistic thinking. I currently have to face a lot of paperwork for non existing events, because of their lack of ability to organise/ listen to the nuance.

Pay the artists more by streamlining your business model and taking a pay cut. Don’t hide behind successful artists as a point of argument and early years artists as a shield. Think of it logically and get the stakeholders round the table.

I love music but as a working environment it is a soul crushing hell. You get told to shut up when you’re speaking up and told to speak up when a point is being made that benefits your employer more than you.

Also it’s ok to change with the times, but that means understanding that young artists have a political voice and a social conscious now, as much as it means embracing the steaming model. All parties have a lot to learn and spoiler alert: most won’t until it’s too late. Again.

You can call it a holistic approach or joined up thinking or whatever deck friendly language you like, but the industry needs to get to grips with historic paper work, outdated tech and disproportionate pay scales on every single level.

It hasn’t worked for the majority for a long time. That’s because it still operates on a platform of “you won’t need to worry about it when you get successful” spoiler alert number 2: you do.