Sammy Andrews

My new @MusicWeek column is out now. This month I’ve taken a deep dive into something the music business seems incredibly quiet about …Ai’s potential for mass software development.

@KevinBrennanMP Thanks for all you’ve done for the creative industries 🙏 all the best with whatever is next

I’m announcing my decision to stand down as Cardiff West MP after 23 years - thank you to local Labour members and constituents for your friendship and support

@doriiannv @CrywankBand @painradio @Ssscore22 Protest what? 😂😂😂😂😂

Can someone explain the Frank Turner X Crywank discourse to me like I’m five and only understand the world through the lens of professional wrestling?

@doriiannv @CrywankBand @painradio @Ssscore22 Ive better things to do thank you 😂 but i know for sure @CrywankBand knows exactly word for word what I’m saying. but good luck to you all …enjoy the internet and your ludicrous trolling 🫠😂

This has nothing to do with the record and you know it. Well done getting your little publicity moment whilst attempting to fuck over the ONLY organisation in the country saving the venues you wanna play by trying to take down someone who has been saving the scene for decades BY RAISING hundreds of thousands for them when they don’t need to. I can see right through you 😂

Can I ask who else you’re trolling for the same reason right now mate? Or is it very specifically just someone going a good thing for @musicvenuetrust you’ve issue with? Guessing the list is quite long given your specific grievances 😂? Where are the other tweets on that list? 🙄😂

Ive been in this business over twenty years (came from grassroots) and find this whole Jay / @CrywankBand narrative self serving and utterly anti the survival of grassroots - just serving Jay , which is what he’s accusing Frank of? Laughable and sad. And ultimately destructive to the very scene he wants to play. What a joker.

That’s very good of you but in this specific argument i wanna hear how Jay has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds and literally saved venues to justify how he feels the need to spout venom at someone doing just that (and an organisation literally saving the music business ) out of his own twisted jealousy or personal grievance

😂🫠 right. So your petty personal issues have got you publicly trolling someone (& an organisation who are literally changing legislation to support the venues you wanna play 😂🫠) doing AMAZING things for YEARS for the scene (at all levels including literally saving venues) … got it 😂 and thought as much. IDIOT.

@painradio @Ssscore22 Exactly this . Frank has raised literally hundreds of thousands of £ for venues & all I can see is a bitter trolling attempt by someone who had raised approximately fuck all for MVT venues. Am I wrong? What have you given to grassroots venues @CrywankBand ? Would LOVE to know.

@Ssscore22 crywank is a small artist so seemily hates frank tuner even tho frank turner started out in grassroots venues and helped keep many alive during his covid lockdown series of lice streams

Why the fuck are you and @CrywankBand so cringingly weird about this? Is crywank a patron of MVT? Are you? Have you or him raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for grassroots venues over the years like Frank has or just cashed in where you both could for self publicity? You realise this initiative benefits independent record stores too right as well as MVT venues? And that these things need rules or they’re pointless? I’m utterly lost in negative narrative of nonsense.

@body_to_water @CrywankBand @markdavyd @ToineRoquentin @musicvenuetrust @frankturner Anyhoos I'm done here. Crywank 16, FT 15. All the folks I care about got a win and had a jolly old time, let us all move on and learn and grow and keep going to shows and buying products with Johnny Foreigner written on them, that's the only way to Save Music.

Wishing our patron @FrankTurner safe travels across his Music Venue Trust world record setting mission this weekend: The most gigs in 24 hours. To keep everything above board we’ve set out some stipulations to ensure every gig counts. #GrassrootsMusicVenues #FrankTurner

Glastonbury... only without the artists who started their careers in Grassroots Music Venues

The ever brilliant @midiaresearch youtube.com/live/aWdyQeqk1…

My look back at the tech trends that dominated the UK music business in 2023 is now available online over on @MusicWeek (previously available in the print edition) inc my controversial bet on @elonmusk ! musicweek.com/opinion/read/s…

As you watch your child’s nativity this year and sing songs of Bethlehem may you be reminded of the current atrocities taking place throughout Palestine …. The 6000+ innocent children who have been killed indiscriminately The tens of thousands injured, without homes, food or water currently trapped in the Gaza Strip … …and the countless innocent children born into the rubble. #Ceasefire

As a proud @musicvenuetrust patron, I wanted to share this, and hope you will too: Support grassroots music venues throughout the UK by choosing to #RideForMusic with @FreeNow_UK they’ll donate £1 to the MVT for taxi trips you make through the app. m.free-now.com/JGMc/js26s23g

As announced on Venues Day, @FreeNow_UK have launched the 'Ride For Music' Initiative, pledging £1 per ride to save Grassroots Music Venues. You can read more here: musicvenuetrust.com/2023/10/free-n…

Incredibly proud of this 🙌 ‘Taxi app FREENOW to donate £1 per ride to help save the UK’s grassroots live music venues’ 🔥 musicbusinessworldwide.com/taxi-app-freen…

My latest column for @MusicWeek on Ai is now also available to read online. musicweek.com/opinion/read/d…

Pleased to add my voice to @edsheeran @steve_lamacq and others supporting @FreeNow_UK 's Ride For Music initiative for grassroots venues, raising funds for @musicvenuetrust 👉🏾musicweek.com/media/read/ed-…