Why aren't they global superstars?
As usual while pushing pens I have itunes on shuffle in the background. In the last few minutes, The Same Deep Waters as Me by I am Kloot popped up. It is so gorgeous I had to switch off the shuffle and go straight to the albums. To me, every track on I am Kloot is a polished jewel. I couldn't help thinking why aren't they massive? After all other groups plough a similar emotional furrow - say the ubiquitous Coldplay and Keene - but not with that added laconic acerbity. Maybe that's why they haven't broken out of the indie box?
Can anyone suggest artistes that, from their viewpoint, really should be flirting with Gwyn and Bono while swanning round LA and Davos, but are grubbing around in Dole Town, or playing Wembley but are still playing the basement of a pub in the local city centre..and more interstingly maybe suggest reasons why it never happened.
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Work ethic
I think a lot of bands aren't prepared to do what it takes to achieve huge worldwide success. Take The Police, for example. They played everywhere in the US from Buttville, Idaho to God knows where when they started out, and 5 years later they were the biggest band on earth.
You have to want it. U2 wanted it. Echo and the Bunnymen didn't.
Scottish Indie
Teenage Fanclub and the Trash Can Sinatras should be massive. Why people keep buying Snow Patrol and The Fratellis I do not know.
See Patrick's post!
Talent isn't enough, sadly. You have to graft too, and have good management, and ideally someone else (e.g. a record company) to fund the early stages of development. And a good buzz going on. C/f Nick Drake - talented sure, but work shy and not given major support - took 25 years of buzz to become well known! There was an interesting series on the TV a few years ago called "Naked Nashville" which looked at different facets of the country music business and they stressed this point heavily - you have to get out there, do concerts, meet and greets, Fanfair, signings etc etc and it you do the work it might happen and if you don't it almost certainly won't!