10 June

Saw an American reviewer say (correctly) that it was questionable value to pay over $450 for nosebleed seats to see Paul McCartney, whose voice is gone. He sounds like a wrinkly at an aged care home singing happy birthday. The boomers are monetising the live music scene with obscene pricing, just as they’ve done with housing, and every other institution they encountered in their life journey, for personal gain. This was them 60 years ago, changing the world. Ha. And for those who take this personally, this is a demographic and cultural argument. Boomers are as nice as anybody else, it has diddly squat to do with how nice they are as people. Generationally they were iconoclasts, society-smashers. That was fun for a while. Now we’re living in the ruins.