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British music industry offically 'good' again; James Blunt leads us out of the darkness

An article in the rather staid but generally quite interesting Independent newspaper claims that Britain's economic growth owes as much to the country's creative industries as it does to more traditional areas such as the financial sector.

The information comes from a recently-published by the Work Foundation, which analysed 13 sectors within the entertainment and design industries. It concluded that cultural exports from Britain, such as music and television programmes, are greater than from any other country. Apparently, Britain's creative sector employs 1.8 million people and if responsible for 7.3 per cent of the national economy.

Part of this spike in figures is the recent, albeit rather belated, success of UK artists in the United States. DiS favourites James Blunt, KT Tunstall, Snow Patrol and Corinne Bailey Rae all broke into the US top 20 last year and Amy Winehouse recently celebrated the highest-ever debut of a British female artist in the US charts when her album Back to Black, entered the charts at No 7.

So that’s good then, isn’t it?

I really hope she is injecting him his poison

via a needle in her mouth

That picture is awful

Please make it go away

*with poison

Damn crappy typing skills

if this is economic growth

then roll on the recession

But but but but

james cunts 'youre beautiful' was voted the most annoying song ever! PEOPLE ARE DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB!

PS. this IS the same public that baught his song and led to him being number 1, o the irony

james blunt

DiS favourite?!

We

as are a nation that appreciates irony. Some would say perhaps too much, and that we lack any collective ability to be straight and blunt. Which leads me to that facts that James Blunt is not a DiS favourite. It was, in fact, irony.

So our healthy economic glow is thanks to James B***t

...I feel so unclean!!! Bland Bringeth Big Bucks

sarcasm,

surely?

That beach is busy isnt it

I would have thought a deserted carribean shoreline more suitable for a man of such wealth.

he looks like

timmeeerrrrgh in that photograph.

hmm...

I'd have much rather seen a picture of KT Tunstall being kissed on a beach by a woman.

?

"DiS favourites James Blunt..."

Is this the same James Blunt that makes fucking awful songs and has affectionately become rhyming slang for a naughty word?

Oooops...

I should probably learn to read all the comments before spluttering my disbelief needlessly all over the place.

Sorry!

or maybe

considering irony before you open your, er, fingers?

Blunt

What?

James Blunt is the only man alive who is his own rhyming slang!

Saw that comedian guy at Glastonbury (can't remeber his name. Fat with a small geeetar), and heard that line again. Pissed myself the first time I heard that last year at Leeds.

^ Mitch Benn ^

A moderately funny guy in general, but that line is a good one

Timmeeerrrrgh and Alan Partridge's Love Child

...more like!

Comment posted at 08:17...

I was by no means awake enough to consider irony.

I will learn from this though....

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