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Music fans watching wallets
David Silverberg is your typical music fan. The Toronto-based writer buys about seven albums a year and goes to shows every six weeks. Or at least that’s what he did until the recession forced him to take a hard look at how he spends his cash.
“I’m definitely buying less music and going to less concerts,” he says. “I can put my money towards more applicable things. Concerts are nice...
Music Meltdown
“I’m feeling this depression,” said Montreal and New York-based musician Martha Wainwright in December, before embarking on a Canadian tour. “No one’s buying records anymore; we’ll have to go back to the life of a touring artist in the 30s, where they’d sleep upright on a school bus and go from town to town.”
While Wainwright might be joking about the school bus, she’s dead serious...
Taking the recession on tour
When U2 put out an announcement about their North American tour recently, there was one detail in the press release that stood out: $30 tickets.
It’s a move, the band’s manager Paul McGuinness said, that was designed to “ensure that U2 fans can purchase a great priced ticket with a guaranteed great view.”
While that’s a welcomed gesture from thousands of followers who are struggling to make...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based web and print writer, editor and blogger working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, writes Metro Canada's weekly Audio Files music column and shares personal finance tips on Rogers TV's Daytime Toronto. He's also written for Maclean's, MoneySense, PROFIT, Chatelaine, Hello Canada, MSN Tech, Yahoo Finance and the National Post. He was recently nominated for five National Magazine Awards, winning one in an online category.
