9.13.2002

 

OMG - breaking news - cream to CLOSE??? great. before i even *get* there its gone. hip hop hooray!

is this something inherent in music - club culture even - that even established names in the business will inevitably bow to the pressures of reality and go belly-up? the music business has always seemed to be more rooted in art for art's sake - think radiohead and aphex twin - than on the concrete mundanities of the daily grind. even commercial music bows down somewhere along the line: think euro-dance and the incredible turnover rate of artistes there - does anybody remember Emilia who sang "Big Big World"? and whatever has happened to Aqua who were the biggest thing on radio 2 years ago? maybe its just cos music, like fashion, is a slave to trends, and whatever's not in vogue at the moment will fold if it's a big enough organisation with bigger bills to pay. sounds awfully like whatever's happened to the once-thriving .com business...

[ that was my first attempt at creating some reflection-type post in a very long while... ]

having said that i cant believe that cream doesnt make heaps of money. theyre a SUPERCLUB for crying out loud... festivals, sponsoring cds on my favourite music mags, the staple presence at ibiza, even sending their resident djs overseas... so what the heck is wrong with their sums? its not profitable?! sounds like somebody isnt making sound financial decisions... [ho ho, pun!] but its true. music and money just dont go together.

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