Interview - Crows

Given the perilous situation of the music industry since the pandemic began it would have been no surprise to see a deluge of acts throw in the towel and retire from the industry.

As is now common knowledge, musicians primarily make their money from touring and, seeing as that wasn’t an option for 18 months, the compulsion to concede against such overwhelming odds must have been nearly overwhelming. Hearteningly, it’s largely been the opposite, artists’ love for making music overcoming the insurmountable odds.

Four-piece rock band Crows are no exception. The band all have full-time jobs which offset their musical careers, a situation which obviously has its difficulties.

“We just make it work really,” he tells Live4ever. “The only money we make is when we tour. You don’t make much for records, you earn a bit back. We’re a self-funded band, we’ve never been signed to a label so we’ve never had an advance.”

“It’s a labour of love and when we’re able to we pay ourselves a little bit of money, but it’s quite rare that happens to most bands unless you tour 10 months out of the year.”

Yet during the pandemic Crows had one advantage. Their forthcoming album, Beware Believers, was near completion in early 2020, as Cox explains:

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