GOMEZ

Low-fidelity genre-fluid queens of British-indie-blues-pop-psyche-art-rocktronica.

[GOMEZ @gomeztheband]

Four classic Gomez albums return on limited edition colored vinyl. Available worldwide starting today. 🔴 🔵 🟢 🟡

Get yours here: https://t.co/KmYMJ4qpuu

[GOMEZ @gomeztheband]

Four essential Gomez records are being re-issued on colored vinyl! Find new editions of Bring It On, Liquid Skin, In Our Gun and Split the Difference worldwide on Oct. 17th. Secure your copies now at: https://t.co/KmYMJ4qpuu

[GOMEZ @gomeztheband]

Four essential Gomez records are being re-issued on colored vinyl! Find new editions of Bring It On, Liquid Skin, In Our Gun and Split the Difference worldwide on Oct. 17th. Secure your copies now at: https://t.co/KmYMJ4qpuu

[Anneliese Midgley MP @anneliese_midge]

🎸 Me and my pal @will_fuzz popped into see Reg & Paul at @austinguitarsuk in the barn in Kirkby.

👨‍🦳🙋‍♂️Dad and lad are united by a love of guitars and the dream of making music accessible to people round here. Everyone is welcome to come in & have a go on a guitar.

☕️🫖They’ll make you a cuppa and find you the perfect guitar. From guitar legends like Will to absolute beginners this is a boss place for you.

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

So we finally got it done.

Seven years later.

Dignity for working UK songwriters.

@IvorsAcademy #FixStreaming

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

Here’s a nice flash back to 2021.

We’ve now got the per diems and the session fee uplift.

It’s honestly like pushing a boulder up a mountain.

#BrokenRecord

[Paul Gladwell @muza1933]

Still the greatest summer in the garden album 👌

[ǝuuɐxoɹ ➃ (HAS SEEN F4!1!1!!1) @envyy_tv]

Me thinks more people should start listening to Gomez....

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

It’s great the Majors are arguing creators must be rewarded for usage in AI.

But, if money does not get fairly paid onto creators because of out-of-date or inequitable contracts with rightsholders, it sadly rings hollow.

Time to *really* get the shop in order.

#BrokenRecord

[GOMEZ @gomeztheband]

27 years (and a day)

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

I'm standing for the PRS Members Council. Please take the time to vote. It's so important that not only songwriters & composers are simply represented in that room, but they are represented emphatically, their interests articulated with knowledge and passion. Vote for me. Thanks.

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

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(Pay wall incoming)

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

Any argument for selective enforcement is, of course, ‘one rule for you and another for us’. We can steal music and art, but you can’t steal our stuff.

Entitlements for sovereign corporations because why? They have grown our economy? Made millions of jobs? Made us happier? What?

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

This is not debateable.

So many tech-types confuse outputs with process. Humans need to create unprompted. That deep, human compulsion has allowed industries to build themselves on its exploitation. Humans will keep creating even though, destructively, they’re increasingly unable to make a living from it.

What’s truly detrimental about Gen AI is that it betrays the human process of creativity. Its outputs are utterly pointless - more noise driving value down. Music was already fast and cheap.

The companies who have wasted billions on LLMs when their own IP is already ‘out of the bottle’ and copied for mere millions, are just desperate for any monetisation of the LLMs.

Music is simply low hanging fruit for lazy app-builders.

It won’t improve music, it won’t make better music, it will just make something that sounds like music…

Great. You spent billions on a thing that any kid can do for fun.

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

Firstly, humanity. The very thing that we build governments and laws to protect - not tech companies.

Secondly, AI can only collage a novelty with a prompt. Unprompted a composer can paint, scratch, chisel, burn, twist, abandon, rethink, deep think, or take any pattern and notion from outside music or their imagination and apply it to the origination of music.

Those who do not understand this have probably never been fully creative. You can’t equate ‘making’ with pure productivity, when even an industrial design process is rarely the latter.

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

Last chance to respond to the government’s AI consultation.

Here’s the @IvorsAcademy guide to completing it:

https://t.co/9xLNqu4I8U

Here’s the consultation itself:

https://t.co/NUgFja58Xt

GET TO IT!!!!!

@crispinhunt @ednewtonrex @IvorsAcademy

[Tom Gray @MrTomGray]

Really significant statement from @RhonddaBryant today on the subject of streaming.

The work continues…

From all musicians, thanks Chris!!

#BrokenRecord #FixStreaming

[GOMEZ @gomeztheband]

RT @MrTomGray: Been tricky for campaigners for music rights to try and make folk understand that Spotify aren’t the *only* problem.

The p…

[Music Week @MusicWeek]

'We need real change': Re-elected @IvorsAcademy chair @MrTomGray pledges to fight for songwriters: https://t.co/oIHSpqJIQs

[The Ivors Academy @IvorsAcademy]

📢 @MrTomGray re-elected as Chair of The Ivors Academy.

“There is unfinished business.”

A passionate advocate for songwriters and composers, Tom’s leadership has driven real movement in government and the music industry. He’s been re-elected to continue the fight for fair pay, stronger protections and recognition for songwriters and composers.

🗣️ “There is a reason we produce much of the best music in the world. The UK has been investing in it for generations through the BBC, music sales, education and arts funding, Yet, whether it’s creator income, tax revenue to our treasury or investment in our communities, UK taxpayers are seeing far too little return. Global corporations continue to be the major recipients of all our shared effort.”

"I know why I have been bestowed the great honour of being our Chair. There is unfinished business. We need to see real change for songwriters and composers. Our craft is under sincere threat. AI is upon us and our industry hasn’t got its own house in order. I will keep driving government and industry to realise the extent of the crisis we’re in.”

Tom’s re-election concludes our current election cycle, which has brought in a new Senate and Board to represent members’ interests and shape our direction.

📸 Kenny McKracken @scottishkenny

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