Pssht, Indie Kids dont listen to new Indie music anymore, even though we helped to publicise it, advertise it and mould it into the mainstream giant it is today. I love how fickle we are as a culture.

Exactly my sentiment. They receive virtually no critical attention whether positive OR negative, magazines like NME don't even include them in their top 20 lists as they'd otherwise be expected to do if they thought there was anything worth mentioning... Why should anybody believe that there is anything new aside from the constant barrage of New Wave/Post-Libertines rip-off acts? It is, as you worded it, the odd band here and there.

OK, so I may have been stretching the truth when I said 'plenty of bands'. On reflection, I realise how there are few new British Indie bands that've really excited me in the past year. Pah!

Out of interest, would you consider yourself part of the scene? If so, what do you think the main problems are that have led to this ridiculous decline? And tell me, are people generally really excited about some of these terrible new unsigned bands or do they deep down kinda realize that the scene's got a bit lame?

I'm probably too old to be considered part of the scene but I do have an (un)healthy addiction to new music. I think that one of the main problems that has led to the decline is the upsurge in social networking sites like MySpaz, which tends to spawn a plethora of crap in the hopes of replicating an Arctic Monkeys style world domination scenario.

In the past, finding new music was a real journey - you had to make an effort to go to gigs and find radio or TV shows that might just play a few minutes of something good. Now it's too easy to look on the web, read NME, watch MTV2 or listen to Zane Lowe and just be 'told' what you should be listening to. It's good that there are so many outlets for new music but it's also limiting if your band doesn't quite fit the profile of what the media deems to be 'cool' this week. And yes, I do think they realise that deep down the scene and many of the bands are indeed lame.

Oh, by the way - I agree that Los Campesinos are one of the best new UK Indie bands of 2007 along with Fields and a handful of others!

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The Libertines were my favorite band ever when they came out (thats my signature) but i think that there are still a few fair British indie rock bands out there. But Then again, im not sure as to waht we classify indie as? are the Arcitic Monkeys, The Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Yeti, The Paddingtons etc. indie?

As the definition of indie these days seems to be any white guitar band who don't play metal , I suppose they are.

They're also extremely mediocre bands, the lotovem, except for the Arctics, who I think probably have enough good about them to not be relegated to pure averageness.

As for , then, um, they've been around for like almost 20 years. Nice try.