Feargal Sharkey is appearing in Glasgow this week, but the former Undertones vocalist will have more to say about onstage licks than teenage kicks.
He is coming to MusicWorks 2004, the music industry convention that is taking place from Wednesday to Friday, in his capacity as chair of the government’s Live Music Forum, to talk about the explosion in live music across the UK in recent years.
“One of the difficulties we have is that we don’t have statistics to show what has changed since five years ago, but the industry is in a very buoyant mood right now,” he says.
“It could be because of the increasing number of acts out there touring. Let’s face it, it can be a bloody good night out. Maybe people are getting bored with the television and want to do something else instead.” [more @ www.sundayherald.com]