Musicians need to be more honest and open about money. It's a kick in the teeth when band's say they are DIY or independent, but have the money to pay for radio play or to pay £500 to get on a big Spotify playlist.

But they don't tell people that's what they are spending or doing. It gives working class musicians false hope that you can work hard on your music and get those opportunities naturally. Musicians help feed into the lie of neoliberalism.

If we've played a festival that you wanna play at, we will tell you how we got that slot and give you the contact details. We will tell you how much we got paid so you can work out a fair fee. For musicians to have a fair playing field these things need to be spoken about.

And it makes the identifiers of being a DIY or independent band more difficult and competition based. We should be lifting each other up and making sure there's nowhere for exploitation or people getting ripped off.

Yesterday we got an email about some Spotify playlist - packages start at £750. If we had that kind of money and took up that offer maybe we'd look better in other peoples eyes. But it creates an unfair divide and unspoken truth between similar band's.

As a working class musician I often feel a sense of imposter syndrome, but I realise that even in the DIY/Indie scene different forms of pay to play are massively at work. If we don't talk about this, and money in general, we are stunting way more musicians before they've began.

If you are a band that has the money, fair. But tell everyone that's what you did. Be honest about the industry and put work in to change its accessibility for those who cannot afford to do so.