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PostHeaderIcon Finding New Honeywell Lynx Plus Here

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PostHeaderIcon Are Radio Stations Doing Enough For Local Music Talent?

Radio stations have often been criticized for playing it too safe where new music is concerned. Quite often, this criticism has been justified. When radio music is listened to critically, it’s quickly apparent that examples of new music tend to closely follow the patterns of what’s currently popular. Local music is seldom, if ever, featured in preference for national and international celebrities.

Terrestrial radio stations have been subject to stiff competition from streaming music stations lately. This is really not surprising. The streaming stations offer a great deal of new music. Where the stations are closely in contact with their local communities, UK music talent has a much better chance of gaining an international audience, something with which terrestrial radio cannot compete.

Where new music radio stations are concerned, those programs that actually feature local music generally only occupy a short amount of time during the broadcast day—or week—and are not as heavily advertised as those programs which feature the most popular recording artists.

For musicians operating in a local scene, the potential for getting any help from radio is fairly sparse. Radio has become more and more dominated by fewer and fewer broadcasters and radio music has become more homogenized over the years. UK music talent, which once could rely on programs that featured the latest bands from throughout the isles, now have to compete with international acts who come with all the slick production and marketing that multi-national record labels can afford. Because of the expense of broadcasting, many of the best new music radio stations are to be found on the Internet. Of course, this sort of broadcasting carries with it an increased risk of piracy but the tradeoff might be worth it for some bands.

New music always suffers for having to develop an audience before it is taken seriously by record companies. The companies aren’t being evil or scurrilous, they’re simply trying to sell a product and only have a certain amount of capital to invest. Like any investor, they’d prefer that capital were put toward a venture that will generate revenue for them. New music is always a risk, in that regard. A band may become the next Beatles or the next nobody and there is really no way of knowing.

Radio music has essentially been transformed into a means to advertise music that is already selling well. Those artists that dominate the airwaves generally suffer no lack of publicity and are certainly not restricted to notoriety in only a local music scene. This makes it more difficult for local bands to break into the mainstream, especially if they’re playing a particularly innovative form of music that hasn’t yet garnered a large following.

Radio stations, as the world moves more toward digital formats, are likely to become less important to the world of music than they have been in the past. As they’re converted to be essentially advertising mediums, whether the advertisements be purchased by sponsors or are in the form of songs by major label’s current big sellers, their service to new music and to UK music talent is not likely to increase, barring major shifts in the market.

UK music talent would do well to look for other means of gaining popularity and, if they desire to break into those new music radio venues, they would do well to already have a following before they try. Radio is a medium that tends to increase sales once there are sales to increase, but not one which is particularly good for starting from zero.

PostHeaderIcon Biography of Daniel Day Lewis



Daniel Day Lewis was born in London, in 1957, the son of actress Jill Balcon and the Irish Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis. He made his film debut at the age of 14 in Sunday Bloody Sunday in an uncredited role. After leaving school he was accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He landed a small part in Richard Attenbourgh’s epic Gandhi in 1982 after which followed a number of roles in film and on the stage. He began to attract public attention in 1986 with the release of two films – My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View. In 1987 he assumed the leading role in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, during the eight month shoot he learned Czech and refused to break character on or off the set for the entire shooting schedule. He was awarded an Oscar in 1989 for his portrayal of writer Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot. He starred in the Last of the Mohicans in 1992, and in Martin Scorcese’s The Age of Innocence in 1993. He worked again with Jim Sheridan on In the Name of the Father and The Boxer, after which he went into semi-retirement moving to Florence to learn the craft of shoemaking. After a five year absence from acting Day Lewis returned in Scorcese’s Gangs of New York. In 2007 he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, titled There will be Blood for he won his second Oscar. Day Lewis currently holds dual Irish and British citizenship.

Russell Shortt is a travel consultant with Exploring Ireland, the leading specialists in customised, private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and independent self drive tours of Ireland. Article source: http://www.exploringireland.net