It’s a cruel world out there. There are few places more reflective of this than in the realm of guitar music in the UK, where things became increasingly cutthroat in the second half of the 2000s. For every Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian and Kooks, there was a Pigeon Detectives, Hard-Fi and Rakes. If you succeeded, there were at least a dozen other bands to be stepped…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
