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Andy Piper @[email protected] · 2024-08-10 · 21:57 UTC

It somehow feels appropriate that this post is both a throwback to things I wrote about back in the much earlier days of my blog, and, a #NewMusicAlert. In other words, Happy Blaugust!

All the way back in the early 2000s – when MySpace was still a thing, even!! – I came across a singer/songwriter who I’ve continued to follow and listen to1 for the past two decades: Alex Cornish.

We’ve seen Alex live a couple of times in the past 12 months with his regular collaborators Paul Gilbody and Bevis Hungate, most recently in January at an intimate gig close to home, at The Half Moon in Putney. We’ve met them many times – he’s just such an amazingly nice, humble, gentle mannered and great guy, as are the band.

Today, I’ve had an email announcing his latest album, the eighth, titled Henry Found the Time. In classic Alex manner, he writes an incredibly honest and humble assessment of the world of streaming services and how they particularly affect solo self-publishing artists2 – naturally, for me, this was an instant purchase as music to keep3, via Bandcamp.

What do I think of it? I haven’t listened to a single note of it so far, but I wanted to post about it anyway – it’s going to be great, and I can’t wait to hear the tracks live when Alex and the gang are on the road again! Going straight into my home music server and collection, and I’ll have it on repeat this week!

Oh, and also:

Support independent musicians. Buy their music, buy their merchandise, go to their shows. They deserve it.

According to Last.FM, Alex is my most-listened artist (closely followed by Cindy Alexander). ↩︎
For more on this, you need to read Chokepoint Capitalism, by the marvellous Cory Doctorow. ↩︎
Incidentally, I was intrigued by an article by Kelly Sims, Ownership in the Rental Age, which talks about whether or not we do still get to own our music. Interesting perspective. ↩︎

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