Congratulations to Matt and Jon from SoCo on Monday’s victory in the People’s Millions competition.
The win is a massive boost for the Southampton music scene and in a few years time we’ll no doubt be listening a brand new group of musicians inspired by SoCo’s project.
By then we might also know what ‘making it’ actually means in this internet age of MySpace/YouTube/Spotify
As Paul Campbell, the founder of Amazing Radio, pointed out in a recent blog, “The musical world has shifted on its axis, and the shockwaves have destroyed the traditional music industry.” (Bringing Home The Bacon)
This ’shift’ has left the old companies focusing on their back catalogue while new bands, with all the music making and marketing tools at their finger tips, struggle to shift their creative mind to a business head.
But within this conundrum Northern Irish singer Eamon Nancarrow has highlighted a different side to ‘making it’.
Now I must confess a personal interest in this next part as I am the publisher of his autobiography
‘Holywood Star: The life and times of a rock and roll misadventurer’. It’s a very funny book about his attempts to make it during the 1980’s.
However, during an interview with Maurice Boland on ‘Talk Radio Europe’, Eamon gave us another reason for being in a band: “The music was the passion but deep down it was all the friendships that we made, and the relationships that we had, which far far exceeded any success we had with the music.”
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