Wall Of Sound chief Mark Jones has admitted that there are tensions between him and Reverend And The Makers man Jon McClure after the Rev told the NME that he planned to give away a follow up to his WoS released debut 'The State of Things'; it's an acoustic album that he says he is already giving away at gigs on CDR.
Jones says that why he doesn't necessarily disagree with giving away acoustic tracks, that he wishes McClure had discussed the idea with him first. In an interview that appears in this week's NME, he says: "There's a validity in that [releasing the songs acoustically, free, before doing a full album], but maybe he should have discussed it first, have a plan! I've come so far with this that I feel like it's been taken away from me. I'm passionate about his music. An artist like Jon McClure needs the right platform to deliver what he needs to do to the public and I think we did that really well. He's got to be one of the most important artists in the country, but I feel hugely let down. I had no idea he wanted to do this".
Asked more generally about the new trend of artists giving away whole albums for free (Prince, Radiohead etc), Jones said he thought the industry needed to think about the whole thing quite a bit more, adding: "If all music is free, who will invest in finding new music? It leaves a label like mine in no man's land. It's my house on the line again. I want to talk to the fans and find out how they genuinely feel".