Henry Found the Time & Streaming

The new album is now available via Bandcamp. This is the only place it will be available to stream or download. Anyway, this is a weird one, I know - you might also notice over the coming weeks that my back catalogue no longer appears on streaming services. I have arranged for them to be taken down for a variety of reasons: (1) (less important but still a thing) I don’t have any faith in the Spotify, in particular - “Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has claimed on Twitter that the cost of creating “content”, is “close to zero” in the modern world” - my latest album isn’t ‘content’ it’s 'music and it cost £6k and I have thousands of pounds of instruments and computing equipment - luckily I have a part time job and do other musical things (string arranging, TV music) that do make money (2) I usually have been 20k - 30k streams a month and make about £40 - I don’t understand the business model with so many small artists like me earning so little from it despite a lot of streaming figures. I’m not hard up. I have a few jobs. But I just don’t think it’s logical to spend money making something over a couple of years putting your heart and soul into it and then to give it away for free when to buy it only costs the same as a pizza in a restaurant.

My only hesitation over the years has been that (a) literally everyone else is on the streaming services and my music not being there won’t make much difference; and (2) I don’t want to mess up people’s playlists or seem like I am denying people that like my music the ability to listen to it. Hopefully you can get the Bandcamp app and listen that way. Anyway, here I am. In a while will load up a handful of selected tracks to streaming as a taster as I do want people to hear my music and I don’t want to be invisible. I don’t know if this is stupid or sensible. Time will tell I suppose!