When they got older and started having some disposable income, they found the whole free music thing boring and uncool. At some point of your life, you want to own an artefact. You want something to put on your shelf. Vinyl is a beautiful thing to own. The more who get into that the better. I can't honestly see it grow that much more. It is expensive, let's not forget that. To buy a really nice piece of vinyl is upwards of ￡20. Not everyone can afford that.Watching John Grant's development. He won the Mojo Album of the Year last year and it looks like he'll follow up with the pretty big year this year.
Seeing somebody at the age of 43 make a debut solo record and having it acclaimed so extensively across the world, and going from someone no one knew to selling out venues in many countries makes you super-proud. I've worked with John Grant since 1998. I cite that example to a lot of artists. And I point out, hopefully it won't take 16 years to sell some records. But there's an example of someone who never gave up, and we never gave up on him. Dirty Three is another special one. We've worked with them 16 years. I can't remember a bad word, a cross word between us and them. And of course Fleet Foxes going from nothing to half a million records in the U.K. in eight months. That's an incredible journey.
We've got a really crazy end of the year. We have an all-girl Manchester band called Pins, who are starting to do incredibly well here; their album is out later this month. We've got Lanterns On The Lake's second album, it's a huge leap for them and a really special record. A new album from Midlake coming up in a few months' time. Which is an absolute blinder. Roy Harper's first new album in about 15 years. The second album from Jonathan Wilson. And then some new bands we're developing, like Ballet School, Horse Thief and a Manchester band doing well for us called Money. We never take the foot off the gas.