Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 6, 2023 15:11:56 GMT
The producer and disability campaigner Sir Robin Millar who made hits with Sade and Everything But the Girl says it’s time records were banned to save the climate.
Robin Millar has made a career from records; now he wants them to be eradicated. The newly knighted music producer and co-founder of artist management company Blue Raincoat Music believes the resurgence of vinyl is exposing hypocrisy among labels and artists.
“I am baffled that no large record company has had the backing of a big-selling artist to stop making physical records,” he says, angrily explaining how CDs and vinyl are manufactured around the world, packaged with “chopped-down trees and plastic” and shipped to customers. “How can anybody stand up and say ‘save the planet’? Artists are awful for hypocritical bandwagonery.”
Millar says he is no “militant climate warrior”, but argues the quality of digital songs now matches vinyl, while artists’ global tours also contribute to harming the planet and could be screened online.…
www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sir-robin-millar-the-vinyl-revival-is-exposing-artists-climate-hypocrisy
Robin Millar has made a career from records; now he wants them to be eradicated. The newly knighted music producer and co-founder of artist management company Blue Raincoat Music believes the resurgence of vinyl is exposing hypocrisy among labels and artists.
“I am baffled that no large record company has had the backing of a big-selling artist to stop making physical records,” he says, angrily explaining how CDs and vinyl are manufactured around the world, packaged with “chopped-down trees and plastic” and shipped to customers. “How can anybody stand up and say ‘save the planet’? Artists are awful for hypocritical bandwagonery.”
Millar says he is no “militant climate warrior”, but argues the quality of digital songs now matches vinyl, while artists’ global tours also contribute to harming the planet and could be screened online.…
www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sir-robin-millar-the-vinyl-revival-is-exposing-artists-climate-hypocrisy