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REVOLVER:All the talk about a brave new world where you and your band could make it without having to navigate the traditional record company route thanks to the liberating effect of the internet has turned out to be just talk. Yes, you can use MySpace etc to promote your work, and, yes, can become your own record company and distribute and sell your wares without a middle man. It could all be so very David and Goliath. But this simply hasn’t happened – and given the way is industry is run and structured, it probably never will, writes BRIAN BOYD

Even those acts – Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen – who supposedly “broke” on MySpace all had huge budgets behind them; their so-called “grassroots appeal” was just a useful marketing line. And, true, Radiohead may have done it with