there is another side to this. I got a lot of promos from publicists who are not agents. I assume that these are being paid by the artists to write a favourable blurb and to put their new albums about to responsive radio stations and possibly gig organisers.

This seems to be a bit like vanity publishing.

I do wonder whether the quality of the material has any bearing on it. Some of the promos I get are pretty ghastly. Most are very good, which gives me the problem of choosing which ones to give air-time to.

The competition for air-time is fearsome even on a regional station like ours. How Mark Harding sorts it out I have no idea!