Here in Australia, we have a free-to-air music show call Rage, that generally plays more left-field music late at night, most of the bands you never hear from again beyond their video clips.
Anyway last night they had some of the worst music I think I've ever seen, amongst yr horribly conservative neo-Born-again-christian irony of Ben Lee and Ben Folds and the Greg Araki/Gus Van Sant wet-dreams of Sigur Ros and Deathcab for Cutie and Blok Party, was one band who were called I think REDMOND or RAYMOND or REDBEARD or something, they were basically these totally HORRIBLE English Oxford-private-school weeds that were basically trying to rip off the Band ala 'The Last Waltz' hook line and sinker. The lead singer would swing his elbow out every now again like Robbie Roberston and the bass player basically holds and plays his bass like Rick Danko. Needless to say they sounded like Oasis or Cast or some other Brit pop Shite, basically didn't have an original bone in their pathetic lame-ass post-modern bodies...
Not soon after was some band called SONS and DAUGHTERS, who pretty much sound EXACTLY like 'Hatful of Hollow' period Smiths, but the record industry execs musta thought they were true GENIUSES after snorting heaps of coke with this band with their 'interesting' twist - the band are fronted by a chick who sings like Morrissey!!!
I was yelling to see something truly outraeous and 'fuck you', like Divine singing 'Im so beautiful', at least it's trash, unlike the trash-in-denial-thinking-its-subversive-or-clever-or-worse-IMPORTANT that's 'pop' music today...
Anyway last night they had some of the worst music I think I've ever seen, amongst yr horribly conservative neo-Born-again-christian irony of Ben Lee and Ben Folds and the Greg Araki/Gus Van Sant wet-dreams of Sigur Ros and Deathcab for Cutie and Blok Party, was one band who were called I think REDMOND or RAYMOND or REDBEARD or something, they were basically these totally HORRIBLE English Oxford-private-school weeds that were basically trying to rip off the Band ala 'The Last Waltz' hook line and sinker. The lead singer would swing his elbow out every now again like Robbie Roberston and the bass player basically holds and plays his bass like Rick Danko. Needless to say they sounded like Oasis or Cast or some other Brit pop Shite, basically didn't have an original bone in their pathetic lame-ass post-modern bodies...
Not soon after was some band called SONS and DAUGHTERS, who pretty much sound EXACTLY like 'Hatful of Hollow' period Smiths, but the record industry execs musta thought they were true GENIUSES after snorting heaps of coke with this band with their 'interesting' twist - the band are fronted by a chick who sings like Morrissey!!!
I was yelling to see something truly outraeous and 'fuck you', like Divine singing 'Im so beautiful', at least it's trash, unlike the trash-in-denial-thinking-its-subversive-or-clever-or-worse-IMPORTANT that's 'pop' music today...
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