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Someone to this on the anorak forums. Sums up a lot of what I feel about these so called "indie" bands on major labels or those wanky alternative compilations in Woolworths and Tescos.

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that someone was me!

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A similar debate is raging on notbbc.co.uk about the same piece.

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.

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Hmm. Whilst articles like this are always a good and entertaining read I can't help but sit there afterwards and just think of how little I give a shit about it all. For as long as I can remember I've always musically ploughed my own furrow and just got on with it and I can't remember a time when I've been sitting there listening to a Felt record and my enjoyment of it has been ruined by the fact that some pile of Topman-sponsored dogshit is topping the album chart... Couldn't give a cack. Obviously this is different because I never grew up when "indie" had an identity because by the time I got to my teens it was gone... Obviously crusty hacks will pine for the days when "indie" really meant something but it's not really a great deal different to wishing that Wagon Wheels were as big as they used to be and all that carry on... Maybe I'm being blissfully ignorant but, seriously, this sort of thing just does not bother me. I mean you have to wade through all sorts of crap to find great music these days of course but it's still there... It's like me buying potatoes in a supermarket, I will inspect about 50 of the bastards before finding one that doesn't have any nobbles or grey mould on it but when I'm thoroughly enjoying it later I won't be sitting there moaning about how crap the standard of potatoes are in supermarkets these days... For I found a good one and that's all that matters.

You can tell I've had too much booze and too little sleep of late eh...

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