Seamus Fogarty, who releases his debut album through Fence Records later this month, crafts beguiling songs out of a whole arsenal of traditional and not-so traditional instruments. He speaks to Nicola Meighan about finding inspiration in a lost t-shirt
While the industry continues to blame illegal downloading for its financial woes, it’s musicians who are paying the price while being forced to work harder than ever. But label inertia means culture itself is at stake, and even democracy could suffer, argues Wyndham Wallace