Psonar Blog

I’ve spent the last few days at MIDEM – the world music congress in Cannes.

I wouldn’t recommend the Cote D’Azur for a winter holiday – it’s been raining on and off throughout and decidedly chilly. The conference is like all conferences – rush to meet, wait, rush to meet again and rarely that elusive big deal as artists, managers, labels, digital service providers et al talk and talk.

The bright spot, however, has been the Brits at MIDEM – I went to see Chipmunk on Monday night. He wowed the international audience with his virtuosity and and an attitude, according to Fraser McAlpine on the BBC Chart Blog, where “…he would never stoop to claiming to be the best rapper in the world ever, because that would be vulgar, and in any case, you already know it, right?”

I was won over and am subsequently grateful to Gregor Pryor for furthering my hiphop education. Mind you, despite being two Englishmen abroad, Chipmunk and I didn’t actually meet in Cannes – though he kindly responded to my direct tweet. I’ll have to buy ‘I am Chipmunk’, which just shows the power of social media.