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Re: When did indie music go tits up?

May 03, 2013, 23:29

Phew...at least you didn't bring class-snobbery, inverted or otherwise into it!

(saw it first hee hee hee.)

Oasis had it and blew it (or snorted it as it were). Some genius tunes, and absolutely kicked the dust up, but ultimately crippled, as so many from this city before or since, by a slavish adherence to 'cool'. The fear, and it is a fear, of looking 'rock' (and therefore possibly 'silly' despite that fact that it's all rather silly), rather than the far more acceptable 'rock n roll' has choked generations of Manc bands into a modish cul-de-sac of indie-worthiness and history-beholden conservatism. Ironically, the cool Manc swagger is often down a one way street.

Thanks the stars that there are now Manc bands no longer so shackled to that which has gone before and are doing what they want without worrying whether Noel would like them or not. I love loads of the music this city has produced over the decades, but lets stop treating it all as sacrosanct and that the past has to be a rigid template for all that follows. And that 'cool' comes first.

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