'Dubawi is what you dream of - then there's the hideous financial reality to it'

Emma Banks’s old life is beginning to reawaken. The music agent’s diary is once again filled with gigs to attend and she has returned to ironing out the fiendishly complicated logistics of world tours for a client list which includes names such as Katy Perry, Muse and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Some authentic heavyweight talent, she says, are "all itching to start playing their music, getting out there, having a bit of adulation".

"Who doesn’t want a bit of adulation?" she says, rhetorically.