John Robb
Louder than war something you can just go straight to YouTube so I like that thing that on a website you can have someone’s soundcloud or you can have someone’s YouTube clip so people can instantly get to what something sounds like, because there is always that danger that you can sort of change things, you’ve got to be careful about then when you’re writing. It can’t be helped because you always have your own opinion on things, but you can slant it away from what it originally is, and I think that’s one of the best things about the modern media really. Most things, say if you write about a new band on a website you can always have it with the YouTube clip so people can actually make their own minds up about what it sounds like. So I think the task of a journalist has sort of changed now in a way, it’s a lot less about describing the sounds, and a lot more about putting the piece of music into some sort of context.
is so diverse that it seems odd to me that you “haveMusictonowadays have a specialist show to play what is actually quite a popular type of music ”
Do you feel like the Internet is helping the radio industry because of all the different ways it can now be accessed? I think it’s changing it quite radically really. In the old days there was a lot of reliance on Radio 1 as a conduit for music, but now the internet, with websites, internet radio sort of channels, and YouTube as well, and band’s own websites when they give away tracks, and Spotify as well it’s a multi-media platform now
Compared to your website, it’s defInitely more obvious that your radio show is punk-based, do you think that’s something that you feel like you have to do? Do you think it’s important to have to have more of a niche with a radio show as opposed to a website or a magazine? Yeah I think that with the radio show it was commissioned as a punk radio show, because it’s a
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