6 August

Sting here talking about the disappearance of venues for live music for new bands to learn their trade. The problem though isn’t that, it’s that young people no longer see being in a band as a way of ‘making it’. That’s what the countercultural revolution was. ‘Gig culture’, popular music became the way for the young to take over the adult world. And they succeeded. Now there is no adult world for today’s young to take over. Rock music isn’t a revolution now, it’s in the mainstream of adult life. It *is* the new status quo, not the resistance to it. The acts that used it as a way to take on adult life are now part of the elite of society. The countercultural revolution is in its last gasps, the young today are passionate about other things. The people who grew up with gig culture are nostalgic for their culture disappearing.