From Glastonbury performers to classical music buffs, Westminster has at all times been packed filled with music obsessives. However the music trade has not at all times been so obsessive about politicians. Who might overlook Stormzy calling out Theresa Might over Grenfell or Elton John calling Keir Starmer’s authorities “absolute losers”?
So this week on Westminster Insider, host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out what how necessary the cultural capital of the music trade is to SW1. She talks to boss of music foyer PRS organisation and former Longpigs frontman Crispin Hunt about Tony Blair being buoyed to success throughout the Britpop period.
Corbyn advisor James Schneider displays on Grime4Corbyn in 2017 and explains how necessary Stormzy main the “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” chant was as a cultural second.
James Frith, Labour MP and former frontman of Finka, who as soon as carried out Glastonbury, takes Sascha contained in the political scene on the music pageant.
Caroline Dinenage, chair of the tradition choose committee and former Tory tradition minister, advised Sascha the music trade was typically ungrateful to Conservative politicians, saying they in all probability mentioned “f*** the Tories” beneath their breath even after billions of kilos in pandemic-era help.
And he or she takes Sascha inside the present row over synthetic intelligence and the music trade. She mentioned Expertise Secretary Peter Kyle was initially “boastful” and “swallowed the A.I. kool-aid”.
Lord Brennan, Labour peer who was a part of the Lord’s latest insurrection over AI and is at the moment main a fan-led assessment into music, says the intervention of prime musicians may help transfer the dial and he tells a narrative of teaming up with Billy Bragg to precise coverage change over guitars in jails.
