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As someone who has become almost willfully out of touch with 'yoof culcha', and yet willfully still 'making' stuff, and having not entirely 'let myself go' upon turning 30, I'm wondering what Barbed thoughts would be on what's really happening in the here and now, musically speaking.
I always had a way of just doing my own thing regardless of trends [mainstream and alt.cult.] but liked to think that I still knew what was happening in the worlds of music and footwear and hair. Now I feel I'm out of touch, and who knows, there might be something new I'm missing out on and actually might not be totally jaded about.
{There's a brilliant line in The Armando Iannucci Show where he's talking with his elderly friend about 'the old days', along the lines of "we didn't have drumNbass in my day... we used to call it... jungle..."}
What's the real underground doing now? How important, how 'haven't quite been ripped off by the labels and the marketing companies' are grime, electro, neo-skiffle, electropunk, cake-music, new-garage-rock type stuff etc. What else is going on? Anything that doesn't owe it all to something that happened 10, 20, 30 years ago?
As a recent arrival to the sarhf of England I've been kind of surprised that people are still talking about electroclash and grime {two things I really liked the idea of, if not all of the end results}. And why do the pubs and live venues still seem to be full of Jam / Pearl Jam tribute acts?
New and improved, yet surprisingly the same, Rollo Kim. |
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