DAVE LEWIS (LEWISDAVE):

School's out , forever it would seem...

And that's just a tease, I know. There are some things to look forward to. Interchange went to the duplicators last Friday and should be out on the net within a few weeks. Check out some early mixes of these tracks in the MUSIC section.

Is physical media now obsolete? I may now simply load up new material via the site and My Space/Facebook/Reverb Nation/ Sound Cloud and enable listeners to download direct. I asked some of my students the other day what they would be prepared to pay for music downloads. The answers ranged from "nothing " to 2 pence. In fact the highest amount they were prepared to pay was 20pence - and that was for an album. And we used to claim that "home-taping" was killing music. Who gets paid along this food-chain, then?

So we'll swim with the flow and put it out for nothing- help yourselves everybody...

We'll make it back on the merchandise. In fact this is just the business model pre-Beatles. Music released at a loss to promote the tour. Jagger recently claimed that the period 1970-1997 will be seen as a golden age of the recording artist when they had commercial control and were able to make money from recording and writing. Now they just look like the early 19th Century handloom weavers or some other group frozen in time and condemned to the "condescension of history".

Oh how we  muse on music ...