@barry-blue raises an excellent point in his Furs review which I think deserves a thread of it’s own. Current bands have to live on their wits, keeping recording costs down, making ‘sync’ deals, playing Social Media chess, touring with fewer musicians than they’d like, shilling ‘merch’ after gigs and in many cases working part time to pay the bills. How do moderately successful heritage acts of the recent past make it pay? How does Transvision Vamp turn in a profit once the Vampblokes have been paid their Per Diems? Case in point – Modern English. Who They? They were a decent Post Punk band signed to 4AD, a more poptastic version of Wire. They had some Indie chart hits and then released this which became a huge US College radio hit. 34 Million YouTube hits and counting…read on in the comments….