It’s easy to shrug at illegal downloading until you see great musicians being screwed over
Sep01
The story of how I came to be friends with Andy Falkous is mundane. He asked on Twitter for recommendations for headphones he should buy and I chimed in. Boring, right? Only, the odd thing is that Falkous is one of my favorite songwriters, the scabrous brain behind both Mclusky and the even finer Future of the Left. In the world before Twitter, ending up exchanging correspondence with someone whose art you admire involved letters, fanzines and crossed fingers. Social media is the great leveller. It puts us in the same arena as both people we admire and hordes of…
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