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You can tell I've had too much booze and too little sleep of late eh...
Statistics: Posted by Westie — Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:03 pm
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Indie hasn't "eaten itself". Record companies have just ploughed tonnes of money into marketing Scouting For Girls & the Fucking Hoosiers (which is their full title) instead of A.N. Other Boy/Girlband. They've seen that guitar music sells if you package it in a certain way (cute/quirky lead singer, songs that sound like some other songs etc) & have done so with gusto.
Both Scouting For Girls & The Fucking Hoosiers are playing arena dates later this year. Not, as I'd originally thought, together as some sort of festival of mediocrity but separately.
I think the current "scene" has a few really good bands who will make records (& sell records) for a few years yet, The Ice Monkeys being the ones who immediately spring to mind. But as with Britpop there will be tosspots who leap upon the bandwagon & shift units to people who don't really like music- like people who listen to Jo Whiley.
I don't like the way Andrew Collins (who looks like my dad) thinks that "indie" bands have to be political. It's like if a song's not worthy it's not worth a fuck. I'd rather listen to "Yummy Yummy Yummy" than anything Huggy Bear or Crass or any of the "proper" indie bands of yesteryear.
Glasvegas make worthy sounding music. The words to "Geraldine" made me howl with laughter when I first heard them. Actually actual social-worker rock (a term I first came across in the sleevenotes to "Perfect Prescription").
But then this comes from Mr Boom-A-Bang-Bang-Bang so what do I know? Or should I speak for I know nothing.
Which is a line from The Monkees film. Thanks.
Statistics: Posted by Simon Los Love — Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:25 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Trev — Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:15 pm
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