Blogging And Music On BBC Radio 4

It’s almost as if tonight’s (well, last night’s strictly…) Front Row show on BBC Radio 4 was aimed at McFilter.

Part of the show discusses how blogging is helping bands get noticed. The blogger on the show was Sean Michaels from Said the Gramophone, who I met about a year ago when he visited Cambridge, and the Arctic Monkeys are the band whose straight-to-number-one first single is being attributed to their use of the Internet, mp3s and blogs to promote themselves. Which is true, I downloaded over a dozen tracks of theirs months back when I first heard of them, and when I saw them play The Soul Tree the gig was packed and everyone knew all the words. It does help that they’re really good, of course.

And finally, the fact that the BBC make the programme available for a week on their Listen Again service means I can use my Real Clip Generator to produce a link straight to the interesting bit.

So, until next Monday’s programme overwrites this week’s on the BBC website, click here to listen to just the segment about blogging and music.