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Dark and empty venues for the declining Welsh music scene

Myspace is the most popular social network on the internet at the moment. In 2006 over 600,000 bands were u

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Kim Hollamby is the head of electronic media at IPC Media. Since IPC’s portfolio reaches 60% of the online population Hollamby’s opinion is one with a lot of clout. He believes that the quality of digital content is key to rising above the crowd.

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When conducting interviews with various bands from South Wales I discovered that despite there being a wealth of new music and a good diversity of shows in Cardiff, there is a strong feeling that the city’s music scene is becoming stagnant and almost incestuous, with the same local bands being put on by the same promoters .As a result people are ‘sticking to what they know’. Therefore, when bands from outside Wales perform, the turn-out is poor to say the least. Why is this?

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