“You cannot visit the scene. The scene is now in the bedroom. There isn’t a group of people forcing each other to improve”: Roy Harper wants to hear new ambitious music, but knows why he’s struggling

Roy Harper.

The music world was enduring another era of technical turmoil in 2013 as the streaming industry was judged to be worth $1 billion for the first time. Reacting, Roy Harper spoke to Prog about how he saw the creative scene – or lack of it – and the benefits of the way artists had found encouragement and development when he was starting out.

“The pop stuff always reaches me because the radio’s always on, but there's no real scene any more, because the scene is online. So there are various scenes and you don’t know which one is which.