Gentrification vs. Music

I wasn't sure where else to park this story, so birthed a thread. Seems worth discussing.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/11/bands_can_no_longer_afford_nyc.php?utm_content=bufferff824&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

that sounds like dave q's theory about why london has such a shitty music scene, that there aren't any practice spaces so everyone has to make music literally in their bedrooms, so it all sounds really quiet and soft or else is made by baldy techno headphone wearers

where can i read about dave q's theory?

dave q was never the most diligent about staying on-topic and i can't figure out how to combine keyword search with username search

There seems to be pretty much as many practice spaces in and around London as there was when I was making music in those kinda places throughout the mid/late nineties and early thousands.

i misread this thread as the gentrification OF music

Ugh, the grammar in that post of mine above, illness and Iphone typing are a not a good combo.

presuming dave q's theory about London is now several years old but it is very much not accurate at this point afaic & fwiw

Ian Svenonius too: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/rock-as-real-estate/Content?oid=22178

Moby as well, throughout the year.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/leave-new-york-for-los-angeles

Moby:

I was born on 148th Street in 1965, and from then until the late 1990s it never dawned on me to live anywhere other than New York City

Wikipedia:

He was raised by his mother in Darien, Connecticut.

shoulda said look mom i gotta live in nyc

looool

"When I lived on 14th Street in the late 1980s, I paid $140 a month to share an apartment with a bunch of other odd and dysfunctional musicians and artists."

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/06/32/72/1683082/7/628x471.jpg

david byrne talks about this sort of thing in "how music works" as well.

i misread this thread as the gentrification OF music

― StillAdvance,

well, if only rich people can afford these spaces to play, then it is?

Maybe Moby should have just moved to the Bronx or Queens, but I guess the Los Angeles weather aspect seems almost more important to him than the cost of living in Manhattan