Indelicates: 'Recession could save music'

Simon Indelicate has suggested that the ongoing recession could have a positive effect on music despite the "death" of the industry.

The singer-guitarist, who fronts The Indelicates with his songwriting partner Julia, told Maps that the economic downturn could end the "myth of the hopelessly romantic neophobe artiste" and leave "driven eccentrics" to experiment with new ideas.

He said: "The recession can only be a good thing. It will hasten the demise of the old and invigorate the search for the new.

"The set-in-their-ways and the monetarily constrained will cease to hold the rest of us back. Desperation will prompt economic adventurousness."

He added: "The kids who saw music as a viable career path and self-servingly gifted the world with their mindless, heartbreaking crap over the last decade will go back to something with a promotion ladder to it."

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher recently joked that he hopes the financial crisis will worsen because music, fashion and politics will improve as a result.