Pop Shield

THE VIGIL (PART TWO)

So, today I was keen to see if the playlist protester was still camped outside the Nations Favourite.  Seeing as he had threatened not to leave until he gets play listed, I was thinking it pretty likely. Then, sure enough, sometime in the afternoon he rocked up – without the two girls – and with a brand new and MASSIVE cardboard placard.  The sign says I’M NOT LEAVING UNTIL OCTOBER WHEN UNI STARTS.  It is an improvement on yesterday’s – it’s big and multicoloured and it even mentions his artist name.  I cross the street to ask him whether I can take another picture, and whether he has any promotional CDs with him to give to anyone wanting to play his record on the radio.  He doesn’t.

It feels like I am working in an embassy today. An unsigned musician and his two companions have been camped outside the nations favourite for several hours now. Quite refreshingly they have opted for an old school write-on-a-cardboard box approach. The guy is protesting about not having his record played on the radio and blames the lack of a record deal.