Clive Brothers wrote: > > Do any other Brits suffer from the intense frustration I feel about > Joni's almost total absence from the media in Britain? She just > doesn't register on the visibility scale. > > When I go to New York,as I often do,her music can be heard at least > semi-regularly in shops or on VH1 and people I work with usually know > her. In Britain no one under the age of 40 has even heard of her. What > a tragedy in this age of formula music that such a talent should go > largely unrecognised. Does anyone out there agree with me? Hi Clive, I agree that Jonio's profile here is now non-existant. What position did BSN get to in the UK? No.50? She's been struggling here since the late 70s, and the current malaise afflicting the industry - where nobody over 30 is given much of a chance in the British charts - has buried her even further out of sight and earshot. The likes of HMV and MVC did try to promote BSN in-store, but I'm not sure how much influence it had. I'm 29 now, and first head of Joni via a BBC2 Whistle Test programme at the time of Dog Eat Dog, although it was My Secret Place in 1988 which prompted me to actually begin my serious love-affair with her music (Johnnie Walker would play tracks from CMIARS quite regularly). There are a few under-40s from the UK here on the JMDL, I'm pretty sure. Not enough though, I would agree. And that's likely to get worse, as the upcoming teenagers are probably not going to get even the opportunties my generation were afforded to discover Joni. Jason. http://www.the-slipstream.co.uk
