Should music critics ’pivot to video’?
Meet the YouTube music critic who runs whilst reviewing records.
Probably not all of them, but there are some people evolving music criticism onto new mediums. To understand what it's like to be a "creator" on YouTube, we spoke to Jimmy Watkins, who gave up his career as an athlete (he reached the 800m final in the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2006 and set a Welsh indoor record!) to play guitar for DiS favourites Future of the Left.
After leaving the band, he started a project called Running Punks with a friend which has become a community of music-lovin' runners. A spin off of…
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