Louis backstage at the Away From Home Festival photographed by Joshua Halling
i love calling grown ass men babygirls i think it’s imperative that we babygirlfy grown ass men
By Will Richards 23rd August 2023
Almost 50 per cent of UK musicians are working less in Europe since Brexit, according to a new report.
The new Paying The Price report comes from the Independent Society of Musicians, and surveyed over 400 musicians.
47.4 per cent of those surveyed said they had worked less in the EU after Brexit went through, with 27.8 per cent having no work on the continent at all. 40 per cent had work cancelled since January 1, 2021, with almost as many (39 per cent) having to turn down planned work.
-> read the full article at nme.com
The West Lothian band's new label venture Happy Artist Records seeks to do away with punishing demands for musicians to "milk fans" and make endless TikTok videos. As they return with a new song – and a Reading & Leeds appearance – the band tell NME why now was the time for change.
By Tilly Foulkes 23rd August 2023
Emerging from West Lothian back in 2015, The Snuts were set to be guitar music’s freshest triumph from the beginning. A string of successful singles and their self-produced EP ‘The Matador’ caught the eyes of major label Parlophone (The Beatles, Lily Allen, Babyshambles), who signed them in 2018. After two releases – both rated 4-stars by NME – they decided to walk away and form their own label: Happy Artist Records.
“When we got signed, we were young, and the landscape of music was completely different,” bassist Callum Wilson explains to NME ahead of their sold-out homecoming shows in Glasgow’s SWG3. Joined by vocalist and guitarist Jack Cochrane, they tell us of the pressure they were under to adapt their marketing strategies to gain success.
“The way the label worked was that they had a marketing team, a digital team… they had all these people to help you to get your music out there. Then as TikTok started to rise, all these things got stripped away from us.”
TikTok – and the demands that comes with maintaining a profile there – is a recurring issue artists have confronted since the app’s boom in popularity.
“Your life needs to be marketed, basically, and we were struggling with that for a while,” Wilson continues. “We went to a meeting to talk about [our upcoming] record and we got promptly told that the music doesn’t matter. It was strictly a TikTok planning session. Which is quite hard as an artist, when you put so much into what you’ve created… and [then] it needs to get stripped down to a one minute sound bite for a social media platform that, chances are, is gonna die in ten years.”
july and august are like pride month no. 2 and 3 for me
i just met someone who had a triangle tattoo and i complimented them on it because it reminded me of louis’ and they looked me dead in the eyes and said “thanks, it means im gay” and FUCKING WALKED AWAY
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
knowing that i singlehandedly made 505 and where do broken hearts go happen will actually forever be a flex because literally no one was out there thinking about the potential while i was sat here begging just thinking about it and now it's a reality
Paradise is meant to be played life come ON. That was fking everything
me last year: i’m gonna get a passport & go to next years afhf
me this year: i’m gonna get a passport & go to next years afhf
i prob won’t be getting a passport to go to afhf lol
Just realised by the time Louis will be on the sun will set in front of the stage <3 it’s going to be very pretty (also it’s hooot so I expect a very red sunset in true Louis’ core 😌)
im still young i still have time im still young i still have time im still young i still have time [lays on the floor wasting my time]
Live footage of me watching the credits after episode eight of season two of Heartstopper.
(Cis/trans)women aren’t the only ones that can get breast cancer, either.
Please boost this version 👆
official boob post
