Well Ray, I don't know what to tell you as there is still plenty of recording going on. People have done more and more on home and smaller studios, and many have gone to recording on their phones. But about 100,000 songs are uploaded to the internet an hour and a large part of those are full recordings. So someone is doing something. We have an average of 50,000-150,000 people here at any one time trying to be involved in music and every week around 600 that move here or make regular trips. This is offset by around 1200 a week that move home or quit having lasted between 6 months to two years. So the amount of people going to record something new for SOMEONE ELSE is not much. Recording for themselves is quite heathy.

Radio gets a very small amount of songs and artists because they are programmed nationally, and what you might consider "junk" is probably not shared by people who are customers for that type of music. Easy to call what we don't like "junk." Just not our stuff. But as always, our opinions really don't matter at all.

Where we have moved to is a SELF CONTAINED WORLD. The era of the writer outside of the artist, is a thing that is mostly dead. Now everyone is a writer, everyone is an artist, and the interest in outside songs simply don't exist anymore. And as I've always said there are people succeeding There are people who succeed very well. There are constantly people creating their own niche, finding their own voice, and skipping radio, completely. they go to internet broadcasting, radio, podcasting.
It's a do it yourself world now.

MAB