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On collective grief, starting over, shedding skin, sandcastles, dogpiles vs free speech, and Musk as the mayor from Jaws drownedinsound.org/weve-shed…
Is this @oasis confirming they will support the £1 @LiveMusic_UK grassroots levy?!
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Really stunned that greedy Oasis still don’t seem to be supporting the grassroots levy and the great British businesses that helped birth them
@liamgallagher @bevcraig @lisanandy @andyburnham
The sobering reality that only 11 of the 34 grassroots music venues that @Oasis played on their first tour still exist today.
Gone are 23 spaces that took a punt on a new band from #Manchester who would become one of the most iconic in British music history.
#Oasis #LiveMusic
Confused why everyone is talking about Ed Sheeran and @macklemore ?
Emma Wilkes breaks it all down in this week's newsletter drownedinsound.org/drowned-i…
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Slop the boats?
On this week’s @DrownedinSound podcast we meet the journalists who’ve investigated an AI persona beloved by the far right who has had 5m YouTube views and half a million Spotify plays
@harriepw @novaramedia & @effiewebbjourno @TBIJ
From 10am today, MPs at a @DCMS will be discussing the fan-led review of live and electronic music
“He is genuinely someone who’s a big music fan”
On this week’s @DrownedinSound podcast I spoke to @KevinBrennanMP about the government’s response to the @CommonsCMS fan-led review of live and electronic music
And his hopes for @andyburnham as PM
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Open your 👂 - it's me and @effiewebbjourno talking about rightwing AI slop in music for @DrownedinSound
Well, this is going to be a fascinating listen from @drownedinsound podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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“He is genuinely someone who’s a big music fan”
On this week’s @DrownedinSound podcast I spoke to @KevinBrennanMP about the government’s response to the @CommonsCMS fan-led review of live and electronic music
And his hopes for @andyburnham as PM
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Drowned in Sound is launching a new print publication celebrating live music
Are you the right person to join our founding team?
🧵 1/3
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Less than a week until @Maruja_Band headline the first day of our brand new grassroots music venues festival, Bulletproof.
Read more about them, their activism and their reasons for joining our festival of resistance in @DrownedinSound:
drownedinsound.org/maruja-ta…
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“I realised the best thing I could probably do was to leave [the BBC] and speak more openly.”
@KarishmaPatel99 on Gaza, the media, and her love of opera on the Sounds Like Change podcast
A new pod produced by DiS where campaigners discuss the role music plays in their life
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Does Ed Sheeran need some mates?
Helena Wadia (@MediaStormPod) and I discussed the economic reality of being an independent band in 2026 with Gareth from @LosCampesinos
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Labour have missed an open goal on a v.popular policy they announced in Nov
And might break a manifesto pledge
The govt's own analysis says a price cap would save fans £112 million a year
91% of over 8,000 music fans surveyed said resale above face value should be outlawed.
Over-promise, under-deliver is becoming the motto of this government. Music fans have every right to feel disappointed at this latest setback. The case for banning ticket touts is clear but this government is stuck in a go-slow.
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Following their recent Neptune prize 2025 win, Cwfen were interviewed by @DrownedinSound
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UK Music Chief Executive @Tomkiehl sat down with @DrownedinSound's Sean Adams to discuss the findings of our new This Is Music economic report and the biggest issues facing the sector, from AI and EU touring to the challenge of breaking new artists. youtube.com/watch?v=TVKLA8oq…
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Spoke to @DrownedinSound about ticket touting, price caps and today's announcement by @lisanandy & @peterkyle
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Hello Hellscape,
Just dropping in to share our albums of the year is now live…
Grievance farmers like Reform probably gonna hate all of these and is there anyone else here?!
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#HayleyWillliams new “album” is exquisite
Loving the @paramore community swarming every detail, looking for lore & meaning at every turn
Ok, it’s not an “album”. It’s 17 singles. Independently released by @secretlydistro
And it got 10/10 from me here drownedinsound.org/decoding-…
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Music contributed £7.6 billion to the UK economy last year
That a huge chunk of the £124 billion the creative industries contributed
Here’s @maryspender speaking to me about why we need to invest in grassroots music
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Brilliant book. Dip back in on the regular. About time I gave it a full re-read. Interviewed JD for @DrownedinSound when the audiobook came out. That Q&A is also worth a re-read, IMO. #JRMvsJD drownedinsound.com/in_depth/…
Corporate music industry, UK government, wealth extracting tech broligarchs, private equity vulture capitalists, and monopolistic concert promoters, are you listening? can you hear us?
Really powerful trio of questions from Myles Smith at #BRITs
Really hit the mark on the need to fund grassroots music
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