They’re in the cinema and on streaming services. Fans love them, as do record labels – because they bring in extra sales When the rock star PJ Harvey let visitors to London’s Somerset House watch her recording her next album through the smoked panels of some one-way glass in 2015, it seemed a rare chance to spy on a major talent at work. Spectators dutifully filed past the event, entitled Recording in Progress , while Harvey and her collaborators made music together. But a glimpse like this into the backroom world inhabited by our favourite musicians is now not so unusual. In the past two years intimate, feature-length rockumentaries of every description have been falling off the production line each month, competing for cinema-goers’ attention. Continue reading...