Tom Dunne: As Billy Nomates can testify, festivals aren't always fun for artists
Billy Nomates received a pile of abuse online after her set at Glastonbury.
With artist’s fees being pretty much the flavour of the month at the moment – how much was paid by whom to who and who knew – it’s nice to reflect on how things are in the music industry. Here it is a very different story. Here, just getting paid at all can be a minor miracle.
Very often we would be happy to see any amount of money go into any account through any intermediary; transparent, opaque, hidden, or otherwise as long as, at some point, it could be used to buy food.
