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J the B, Seth,
Oh come on... None of the bands mentioned above are exactly any fun, are they ? And objectively speaking, and I'm going to have to insist about this, they are not inspiring. I can imagine you'd get a certain amount of grim enjoyment from being *in* The Bravery say, in terms of blow jobs, coke, and hopefully a bit of cash put away for when the record company gives you the bad news, but as for being a fan, there's no way anyone's going to leave one of their shows feeling like they should do anything other than get a job at an accountancy firm, as far as I can see - Not that there's anything wrong with getting a job at an accountancy firm, some of my best friends, etc, but there are other pressures that take care of that, surely. And as for Keane, Coldplay and so forth, in much the same way as you wouldn't hire a lawyer on a drunken, misguided, but nevertheless fairly interesting crusade to change the world, what's the point of a sensible band ? These people are not doing their jobs properly, dammnit. Franz Ferdinand, for example, who I used to quite like, have spent the last eight or nine months touring the world as feted rock and rollers after what must have been years of frustration, playing in pubs in Glasgow, staring at CD:UK with terrible hangovers, fending off phone calls from the folks and so on, and yet now it's their day in the sun what have they got to say ? By and large, it seems, that 'it's been a good year for British music.' Really, why on earth would they care ? They should actively loathe other UK bands, they should be doing what they can to hurt them badly, as opposed to just indulging in this creepy, damp, and frankly rather disturbing inclusivity, patented, let's be honest, by Tony B. Sitting there age 18, trying to work out what's the best thing to do with one's life, when this stuff actually matters, in what sense is the ( debatable ) fact that it's been a good year for British music going to help you, at all ?
J Osterberg ( sp, almost certainly, ) once said that the thing he was most interested in was what people did after the performance, but what would you do after seeing the likes of Coldplay 'live' ? Feel empowered about the mortgage agreement ? Propose to your 'partner' at too young an age ? Buy a car with a decent soundsystem on HP, and resolve to work a bit harder to make the payments, and thus attain your goal ?
Again, fair enough, I suppose, but when everything else is implicitly saying that, is delivering that message, it's really no good if vaguely 'alt rock' musicians are in the same business, and don't seem to have much else to offer. Personally anyway, I'd have been a bit different if I'd never heard The Smiths, I'd be earning a lot more money by now for one thing, if I'd spent as much time listening to that hobbit from Keane as I did do Morrissey, I'd be a *coff* rich man by now, and...
Actually, on reflection, I guess I done fucked up there a tad, really. Oh well.
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