The British Indie Scene (Radiohead, The Smiths, member, magazine, quote)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-09-2008, 11:04 AM

If there are 'loads of good British indie bands' around nobody is posting about them here , playing their music anywhere or even talking about them anywhere else which leads me to believe there isn't any bar the odd band.

Rainard Jalen · 01-09-2008, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

If there are 'loads of good British indie bands' around nobody is posting about them here , playing their music anywhere or even talking about them anywhere else which leads me to believe there isn't any bar the odd band.

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.

Mr Nic · 01-10-2008, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

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!

Rainard Jalen · 01-10-2008, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Nic

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?

Mr Nic · 01-11-2008, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

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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