The orchestra blog is dead. Long live something else.
mainGareth Davies, the first orchestra blogger and by far the best, calls it quits today after seven years on the laptop.
Too many cheap imitators, he says.
Back to the flute, then.
(Love those Ukip cufflinks).
He’s a terrific blogger, and he’ll certainly be missed. But if he’s worried about repetition, it does seem he’s missed something fairly fundamental about the nature of an orchestra tour blog.
And again, with the eternal “the LSO was first/best”! The BBCSSO was blogging in 2006, and it was far from alone…