It’s all much much healthier than people being dubstep DJs and producers.
@woops hates that alien jams woman now cos she's left him of the bill of a few nights they put on even though he has released albums on their label
Yeah a lot of the time probably. Although sometimes not at all. It's very frustrating.I guess what you profess to hate is also what's deepest inside you, right?
this is why the wire magazine was better/more interesting before you could instantly hear all the music they write aboutI like some of this stuff but I always think it's music that often sounds better when it's written about than it actually sounds, if that makes sense
A few writers can talk a really good game when it comes to this sort of stuff. Byron coley, Kiran on the low company mailouts, fuck even david keenan. There's something about this music that lends itself to wild and exciting prose even though when you listen to it sometimes it's just another drone record with toy instruments or whatever
I don't think thats unique to this kind of outsider-y music but it's just reached a very fine, honed pitch. Which is interesting in that the scene is ideologically very anti PR, would say it hates hype and spin, but there's a very subtle and engaging hype machine behind it all.
I guess what you profess to hate is also what's deepest inside you, right?
Clearly he's more old weird Britain rather than New. He mentions in the interview how he studied under Jeff nuttall 75-78 in Leeds, saw the sex pistols etc. To me this is like new wave gone a bit some other way. There's quite a disturbing track on the solo bandcamp thing, the serial killer tribute stuff is not really my bag. But otherwise it sounds like rawer Mark e Smith in some senses. And there's Bob Dylan and velvet underground covers that are pretty good.
Would be interested in hearing more about that ledge s&q night, I'll have a search round online