Equal opportunities for ageing lesbian rock n rollers

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

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[redgunamo]

Only, every artist featured on that cover is at least as old as me. Is youth music dead after all :-|

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[barrybueno]

[redgunamo]

[Snin]

but i read its on the up..unless its old farts buying it i guess

[7evens]

[Pat Vegas]

but something about Music magazines and particularly guitar magazines I can't stand.

[Snin]

[redgunamo]

Do current bands even release LPs nowadays?

[7evens]

I only ask, as I had a recurrence of an old one repaired on Monday.

Meat and veg are black and blue this morning :-(

[redgunamo]

I mean, that's what the music is supposed to be for.

[Pat Vegas]

and stand there looking for what mistakes you make. 'He didn't hit that note right' 'not enough vibrato there'

Jesus christ.

[7evens]

Still stands up..

[Snin]

and to leave it..its taken a while but just about ok now ..still hurts if cough when running but seems mended...inguinal strain / tear or something ..did some rolling on those foam rollers etc. Ok , touch wood..

latest injury worry is metatarsal after 27 mile run and 25 mile ride on sat :( this training for half iron is breaking me :-)

hoping is mild brusing as its not fracture but could be start of stress fracture or brusing at least..so just doing light jogging this week, keep up riding n swimming though :) fingers crossed will get better this week not worser

[Pat Vegas]

How come they have to read the music whilst they play?

:rubchin:

[Ashberto]

and then go around 'liking' whatever just because they had been told to do so by some complete prick at a music paper, who in turn was either following orders because someone had shagged someone else or because money had changed hands.

For some reason the retarded elements of the readership would base their opinion on the opinions handed to them rather than actually listening to stuff and making up their own mind.

They would then complain, years later, about being 'manipulated'. Unbelievable, Jeff.

[Snin]

ive no idea but this says young ?? :-)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6406630/vinyl-rec ords-comeback-music-industry-record-store-day (http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6406630/vinyl-records-comeback-music-industry-record-store-day)

but henley has a vinyl shop now and seems busy too so prob aoldies ?

http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=40890

jazzz

http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/media/photos/250415/main/1504309.jpg

Perhaps surprisingly, young consumers are the strongest vinyl demographic. According to MusicWatch, 18-to-25-year olds represent 13 percent of people surveyed but 22 percent of all vinyl buyers. The 26-to-35-year old group account for 17 percent of people surveyed and 26 percent of vinyl buyers. Older age groups have proportions of vinyl buyers equal to or less than their proportions of overall survey respondents. Says Kurtz, "If the young people are buying, they're buying vinyl."

But this isn't a case of vinyl buyers being luddites. MusicWatch data shows people that buy vinyl are more likely than the average music consumer to listen to Internet radio, follow artists on social media and stream on-demand music. They're heavy music consumers that need something beyond digital files or CDs.

Vinyl isn't exactly a mainstream product. Through the week ending December 7th, vinyl accounted for just 3.4 percent of U.S. album sales and 6 percent of physical album sales. But the format has been revived for a new generation of music fans and has helped keep independent music stores in business. Good thing, too. "Interactive CD Store Day" has a bad ring to it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Growing up feeling guilty that the music I liked wasn't that prescribed by the NME was the root cause of many of my current issues.

I am working through this with my therapist tbh.

[redgunamo]

Like a football manager shouting instructions at his fifty million pound striker. Or me yelling at my hounds (I never do this).

[Pat Vegas]

and then the whole John Peel Brigade.

Just listen to what you like, If there is something new that might good thanks for bringing it to my attention but don't force me into it.

[Snin]

[Pat Vegas]

[Snin]

horrible people..ugly, smelly vile cnuts

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

People still hold him up as some kind of brave musical pioneer. :****er:

[Snin]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I do agree in general with what you are saying however there was obviously no internet or social networks then, new bands / music relied on the paper media to get their names known. Not to defend the gullibility of a person that automatically liked a band because a journalist from the NME name dropped them but it was a way of becoming aware of bands and then if you were intelligent enough to make a decision then all good.

It carried on until recent years of course, was not just limited to when you and I were inquisitive teenagers. I would suggest a lot of the success of a band like the Libertines was down to being championed by music media who thought they were the coolest thing since the last cool thing, despite being dirty thieving junkies.

I once knew and socialised with an NME journalist back around 1990, I met him through an acquaintance who was in a very well-known and popular band. He was, without doubt, the leachiest most free loading c**t I have ever come across in my 40+ years on God’s planet.


p.s. the “liking phenomenon is rife in football also of course. Just witness every transfer window when media linked player A, B or Z is heralded as being our midfield or forward saviour despite the person doing the heralding probably never having seen the player kick a ball. It is often referred to in conversation as the ‘Rich Factor’.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Ashberto]

particularly the more earthy, rocky, Sounds. And of course Melody Maker was run from the same office as NME.

Likewise with the politics. The NME affected a vapid, studenty and highly elitist type of leftism that in some cases still infects their old readership to this day.

;-)

[Classic Jorge]

Which in itself is a rare thing.

[redgunamo]

Could've been a different chap though, of course.

[Classic Jorge]

The Libertines used to host impromptu gigs at random people's houses which were posted all over Facebook with less than a day's notice.

The Monkeys used their myspace and youtube accounts to create a buzz.

In many ways both bands did more to highlight the futility and anachronistic nature of the music press. Still ****e, mind. Monkeys' first album aside.

[redgunamo]

They don't want to appear to be out of touch.

[Classic Jorge]

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[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

I'd want to read. All my wages from the part-time jobs I had went on magazines & vinyl until I discovered beer...not sure how much the student politics really was of interest to me but I do remember people like Andrew Tyler and Richard North being bloody good journos. Different times, A...we all had something to rail against unlike now with the Lib/lab/con/neocon consensus :-)

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

Jesus I'm old

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

on said band by luminaries such as Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker. A band could be slogging around the North London circuit in front of handfuls of people and then one day It Gets Announced that Morrissey rates them and then a smarm of fashionistas would descend and suddenly that band would be The Next Big Thing.

When I used to go and see random bands every week at the Monarch on Chalk Farm Road (now The Barfly) the promotor at one point put on such good bands that I knew that if I got there at half-eight there was a 90% chance that I’d really like at least one of the three bands on. One night though, there was just some awful, pretentious and utterly **** poet from the US banging on about George Bush and some hospital closure somewhere near Washington. I wondered what a New York audience would have thought about someone from here complaining to them about a hospital closure in Neasden. I also wondered why the place was packed, with everyone hanging on the dire poet’s every word. Everyone except me and Ms A, I should add. As we went down the stairs to leave, Jarvis Cocker was coming up with a court of hangers-on. Obviously the poet was flavour of the month.

[Classic Jorge]

I saw Menswear there once. They played a half decent set, chatted with the journalists after and were all of a sudden the next big thing.