Its the BBC. What exactly were you expecting? I’m afraid us 6 Music listeners just have to sigh and accept that we’re a tiny minority, in comparison to the 900 squillion people who listen to radio 2. And Coldplay and Adele sell more albums in December each year than all the bands you’ll ever listen too, put together.
T’was ever thus. However, such artists only tour infrequently, and then to a relatively small number of venues, while many more smaller bands tour constantly, playing many more smaller venues, reaching a far wider spread of their fanbase, in a far wider number of countries.
And at far more affordable ticket prices. And whose music is probably more relevant to music fans in general than Coldplay, whose lyrics don’t really stand up to close scrutiny.
They could have had Julie Fowlis headlining, an artist whose music is almost exclusively Gaelic, and who did the songs for the Pixar movie Brave, or they could have had Capercaillie, who’s music blends traditional with modern dance beats, and are far more in touch with modern Scotland than no-hopers like the Rollers.
I saw Capercaillie in Bristol some years ago, there was a bloke turned up in full Scottish gear, fancy tunic jacket, kilt, lace-up shoes, and he didn’t stop dancing down the front for the entire near two hours they played.
That’s what proper Scottish music is about, it has sod-all to do with album sales
