‘I would not have a career right now if it wasn’t for Stageit. They’ve been the ones who have put a roof over my head when I was writing the album. When I travelled to sessions, they were the ones who put money in to pay for my train tickets. They were paying for the food on my table.’
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We’ll be keeping you up to date with the best tags to follow over the coming months as the industry unites in the face of a pandemic.
'Sometimes you’ve got to sit back and laugh, you know? Because you wrote something standing up in your day job and all of a sudden you can go around the world and perform that song and people love it. It’s one of those things where sometimes you have to slap yourself.'
‘This feels like the best record that we could have made right now.’
We went along to AMP 2020 to get some artists' perspectives on songwriting and the ever-evolving music industry.
As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, we asked Sports Team drummer Al Greenwood to make us a playlist.
'Touring used to be a case of hopping in a car or a van and just going, but now we live in different cities and we’re all trying to make ends meet, it complicates things. But you can still manage to do it, it just grows with you.'
JAM celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 2020 season launch concert in London on Thursday 19 March.
'As much as it’s a cathartic experience for me, you can open up old wounds, and sometimes that’s much needed, but it’s not always easy.'
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