This week, a classical music round-up email informed me a few days ago, the streaming service Grammofy is to shut down due to the financial difficulties of keeping its product – which was a set-up which sought to be ‘fair and respectful of the content and its creators’ – afloat.
Among the most difficult questions I currently have to answer is a question which, from the perspective of general social acceptability, is supposed to be very easy. Most people can manage it in a sentence, many in a couple of words – heck, in some cases, just a single descriptor
Money. In a world of billionaires (over 2,000, apparently), hedge funds, celebrity living, overpriced footballers and a widening gap between rich and poor in the UK, artists are pretty rubbish at talking about money. I don’t mean the people who run the Arts Council, or dish out Lottery funding –
