Comments on: Sausage of the Year Award

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:06:34 +0000

That Naylor bloke was in nappies when punk happened – so he’s not even an old punk, just a wannabe. Which is even worse.

By: Iain Weetman

Iain Weetman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:29:09 +0000

Fan Power – I bet they hate the fact that Iron Maiden are currently the world’s biggest grossing touring act this yr

By: Iain Weetman

Iain Weetman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:27:24 +0000

Ahh yes – like Paul ‘can’t let go of Joy Division’ Morley & that Naylor bloke.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:47 +0000

I think one problem is that the mainstream media is run by forty-something old punks, who have never managed to let go of their 1977-era anti-rock prejudices.

By: Iain Weetman

Iain Weetman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:14:05 +0000

There is a very interesting article in this month’s Classic Rock; ‘Why Doesn’t Radio1 Play Rock?’…….The Answer’s manager is speaking to the suits there & arguing that ‘it’s our station as we are tax payers but why won’t you let the kids hear real rock?’ He says to them that it’s only indie-pop they seem to play. R1 then come back to him saying that they do play rock…such as Killers – quite rightly The Answer’s manager says ‘who are you trying to kid???That’s not rock – it’s pop with guitars’.

As Thunder wrote in one of their songs: “Twenty years I made a living of this/No thanks to you & the TV too/Who did I forget to blow/Should I go on a reality show?/I know you’re never gonna hear this on the radio”.

Worth a read.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:25:23 +0000

I think we’re all probably guilty of viewing the past through rose-tinted spectacles. The charts were full of drek for much of the 70s and 80s, and while Led Zep and Pink Floyd were huge, you never saw them on TV.

I remember readings very similar rants to ours back in about 1985.

What’s happened now is that ‘real’ music is so fragmented that what’s left of the mainstream is even more of a lowest common denominator than it used to be.

By: Iain Weetman

Iain Weetman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:43:24 +0000

Sigh…….Tim, you are absolutely right in every respect. I constantly bang my head a gainst the wall when disscussing these musical facts with people – the plain fact that musical events accross the board ie Jools Holland, V Fest, Glasto, T in The Park, Mercury Prize etc etc all ‘claim’ to be an eclectic mix & always go with the monika ‘music’ – one would assume that the 2 words ‘eclectic’ & ‘music’ would include all genres, but sadly it doesn’t…..ever – next year will be exactly the same; the Mercury shortlist will yet again contain mostly quirky/averagely played NME-friendly bands who dress like bo-ho drop-outs & the main stages of the only fests that the BBC will cover will be full of the latest Q mag indie-darlings singing songs about argueing boy/girlfriends outside chav-friendly nightclubs. In their world, there’s no such thing as musical accomplishment, jazz, blues, folk, metal, prog or rock (& by ‘rock’, I mean exactly that, not the bloody Kooks or Oasis – something journos seem to get wrong). Or am i being too cynical???

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:43:07 +0000

Anything remotely innovative is down to the 11 year old.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:50:01 +0000

I agree with the stuff about Cowell et al by what have you got against 11 year olds?