Mush - Portrait of a Musical Ignoramus
In Recent years I have undergone a bit of an enlightenment, attended a concert or two, been to V festival, borrowed my brothers CDs that I had previously written off as smelly indie kid bollocks. Embarrassingly I am a musical ignoramus, I discovered the Stone Roses after the year 2000, and it was my two Brazilian record producer housemates that informed me that Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin are from England and not California.
Influenced by the film 24 Hour Party People, musicians Will & Leo from Mr Mouse recording studio and other music lovers like Peanut and my youngest sibling Danny, I have been enlightened. I'm still a good year or two behind the latest bands and rather than the pretentious oft heard claim 'I liked them before they were famous when nobody had heard of them' with me its a case of 'I liked them after everybody else did'.
Music fans will wonder what I actually did during my adolescence to be so oblivious to the great music scene going on around me in the 1990s. The indy rock and roll kids were bopping away in venues like Sheffield's Leadmill, the almost hallucinogenic cider they had drunk leading them to believe that the band they were watching will be bigger than the Beatles. I was to be found on the dance floors of places such as Roxy Disco, Kikis, Isabella's, or Capitol begrudgingly tapping my foot to Bobby Brown's 'two can play that game' (still HATE that song) whilst on an unsuccessful quest to achieve the Holy Grail for a sixteen year old, the infamous DFP.
In defence of my choice of places to frequent in my teenage days, I feel a recent Guardian article partially vindicated my decision. Reviewing controversial Indie film 9 Songs the critic observed that 'The only people that get less sex than indie boys are high ranking Opus Dei members and heavy metal fans'. Remembering my indie boy mates' levels of success with the opposite sex back in the day I see where he is coming from!
Influenced by the film 24 Hour Party People, musicians Will & Leo from Mr Mouse recording studio and other music lovers like Peanut and my youngest sibling Danny, I have been enlightened. I'm still a good year or two behind the latest bands and rather than the pretentious oft heard claim 'I liked them before they were famous when nobody had heard of them' with me its a case of 'I liked them after everybody else did'.
Music fans will wonder what I actually did during my adolescence to be so oblivious to the great music scene going on around me in the 1990s. The indy rock and roll kids were bopping away in venues like Sheffield's Leadmill, the almost hallucinogenic cider they had drunk leading them to believe that the band they were watching will be bigger than the Beatles. I was to be found on the dance floors of places such as Roxy Disco, Kikis, Isabella's, or Capitol begrudgingly tapping my foot to Bobby Brown's 'two can play that game' (still HATE that song) whilst on an unsuccessful quest to achieve the Holy Grail for a sixteen year old, the infamous DFP.
In defence of my choice of places to frequent in my teenage days, I feel a recent Guardian article partially vindicated my decision. Reviewing controversial Indie film 9 Songs the critic observed that 'The only people that get less sex than indie boys are high ranking Opus Dei members and heavy metal fans'. Remembering my indie boy mates' levels of success with the opposite sex back in the day I see where he is coming from!
posted by Matt at 11:03 AM
8 Comments:
Mush, if you come to see the Arctic Monkeys next week you will, in fact, be cutting edge. The nme are currently weeing themselves over the Sheffield scallies.
Mush, if you come to see the Arctic Monkeys next week you will, in fact, be cutting edge. The nme are currently weeing themselves over the Sheffield scallies.
Mush, if you come to see the Arctic Monkeys next week you will, in fact, be cutting edge. The nme are currently weeing themselves over the Sheffield scallies.
Don't ask me why that just published my comment 3 times...
At Least it makes me look popular!! Count me in on the gig!
By the way Mush, are you willing tell your avid readers what DFP means!?
you´ve got to mention the bundalele song!!!
Young Marcelo, A future post is in the pipeline that will pay homage to that classic 'hje é festa' by Latino!
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