The appeal was a great success, quickly exceeding its fundraising target of £5000. Photo credit: Shutterstock
The money will be split between the MU Coronavirus Hardship Fund and the PRS Emergency Relief Fund. We revisit some highlights.
Tim Burgess has been hosting “Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties,” for the last nine years – but since the beginning of lockdown he’s been inviting other artists (with guests including Franz Ferdinand, Blur, Roisin Murphy and The Breeders) to join him in tweeting and answering questions about their music, as fans collectively listen over Twitter.
On Sunday 24 May he put on an extended listening party as The Broken Record Appeal, with a festival style line-up of artists. The aim was to draw attention to our joint #KeepMusicAlive campaign with the Ivor’s Academy to fix streaming now – and to raise money for the MU and PRS’s hardship funds.
Follow the line-up
The appeal was a great success, quickly exceeding its fundraising target of £5000. Featured artists tweeted their enjoyment. You can replay each album party with tweets appearing in real time on Tim’s website, but we’ve included a few of our highlights below.
First up to play was PINS, with their album Wild Nights. As the album unrolled they had some really interesting insights to share about their tracks – from lyric inspiration to sticky pedals.
Next was by John Grant with the album Pale Green Ghosts, listening along with followers inspired him to revisit his own music.
After this came KT Tunstall with her album Eye to the Telescope, which she began with a bit of concert/festival role-play.
Then The Shins were up with their album Oh, Inverted World. They were pretty excited about it!
And last but definitely not least was Boy George with Culture Club’s album Colour by Numbers. He had some really insightful comments on the whole album creation experience. You can replay the album with Boy George and other contributors quotes on Tim’s website.
Want more?
Tim will be hosting more lockdown listening parties, check the diary on his website for future plans.
We’ll also be featuring Tim in the next edition of our quarterly journal, The Musician, which is due to be digitally published and distributed to members shortly.
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