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From Glastonbury performers to classical music buffs, Westminster has at all times been packed stuffed with music obsessives. However the music business 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 how necessary the cultural capital of the music business is to SW1. She talks to boss of business group PRS for Music and former Longpigs frontman Crispin Hunt about Tony Blair being buoyed to success throughout the Britpop period.
Corbyn adviser 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 at Glastonbury, takes Sascha contained in the political scene on the music competition.
Caroline Dinenage, chair of the tradition choose committee and former Tory tradition minister, advised Sascha that these within the music business was usually ungrateful to Conservative politicians, saying they in all probability stated “f*** the Tories” below their breath even after billions of kilos in pandemic-era help.
And she or he takes Sascha inside the present row over synthetic intelligence and the music business. She stated Expertise Secretary Peter Kyle was initially “smug” and “swallowed the A.I. Kool-Assist.”
Kevin Brennan, a Labour peer who was a part of the Lords’ current insurrection over AI and is at the moment main a fan-led assessment into music, says the intervention of high musicians might help transfer the dial, and tells a narrative of teaming up with Billy Bragg to precise coverage change over guitars in jails.