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Justin Hawkins sounds off about the state of the music industry
21 February 2013
When TMN interviewed The Darkness frontman he discussed the “unbearable” reformation of the glam-rock band, his intolerance of label A&R employees, which kinds of drugs are best for writing music and his take on the current state of the music industry.
“The music industry is just so fucking, it’s a bit like um, it’s like that thing where everyone says ‘oh it’s changing all the time, it’s always changing.’ Actually it hasn’t at all, all these things that they said would change, the actual experience of being in a band is exactly the same. There’s three or four bands that make all the money and there are a billion bands that make no money basically.
“If you look at it statistically on a graph, it’s called the long tail, and the left hand side equals money and success and at the top of that graph you’ve got Coldplay and U2 and to a lesser degree you’ve got Kings Of Leon, stuff like that. And then it goes down, down really steeply and curves out the bottom and the other axis is millions and millions and millions of bands that all make no money whatsoever. If you look at that exact same chart ten years ago, it’s exactly the same so nothing’s actually changed. The one thing you can rely on is that there will be millions of bands who make no money and three or four bands making all the money, simple as that. Everyone knows that when they go into music so it’s not disappointing, it’s just the way it is innit?
“I would say that the music industry has not changed at all, but the record industry has, in the sense that you can’t actually make any money off recordings so you have to muscle in on your merchandise.”
The Darkness are the cover stars for magazine issue #921.
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