A Night In With Liam Inscoe Jones
57m
It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole new world and, suddenly, just about everything feels possible.
Delving into the history of modern music, fiction writer and musician Liam Inscoe-Jones will embark on an epic exploration of his new book Songs in the Key of MP3. He will examine five contemporary artists who broke the old rules of sound, style, and the music industry at large: Devonté Hynes (of Blood Orange), FKA Twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt and SOPHIE. Liam will discuss how each began their careers as obscure outsiders but, over time, they helped to re-shape pop culture in their image.
Blending a mix of criticism, biography, and music history, Liam, alongside Welsh radio and television presenter Huw Stephens, will unravel the curiosity and wonder surrounding pop culture in a fast an ephemeral age.
A perfect night for anyone fascinated by how digital culture transformed music creation, distribution, and consumption.