Lily Allen, Dan Bull and the great piracy debate.
Thanks to my mate Morgan who took the time out from playing with his new baby daughter to tweet and make me aware of the following beauty. Seems Lily Allen, has been throwing out some less than informed comments on her website about the ongoing music piracy debate of late. In short Miss Allen comes out rather surprisingly on the side of the ailing music industry which for the most part has failed to grasp the dramatic changes that have taken place in the music marketplace. The debate has divided musicians across the world and it is most interesting to see which side of the fence certain big name musicians and some so called indie artists have set out their stalls.
Anyway a certain Dan Bull, a 21 year old English musician has come out with a brilliant musical retort to Allen's remarks in which he reminds her of her beginnings and quite politely, but very eloquently, verbally raps her knuckles (pardon the pun).
Like it or not downloading and sharing music is here to stay and musicians all over the world are being listened to by huge numbers of music fans who would never before have even managed to hear them. The debate will no doubt continue but the boss summed it up when I told him the story in the canteen the other day. "Who the hell is Lily Allen, Mr. Crab" he said, "never heard of her" he spluttered, as his ginger nut went down the wrong way.
Dan Bull's latest CD meanwhile is available as a free mp3 download from his myspace site. Of course you can also buy it too, if you so wish. I am willing to bet that thousands will download for free and many thousands more will buy the CD as well and young Dan will reap all the benefits of having produced some great music despite having offered it for free download.
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