Sunday, August 27, 2006
Sunday 28th August
It won't be climate change that gets us.
I think it will be because in a few weeks time the world will just be one big pop concert.
Everyone will be in a band and giving a live concert all the time so no one will man the buses and trams and human civilisation will collapse as everyone launches into their drum solo or guitar solo. The audience will dwindle until they too are all in a band.
And no one will notice.
The whole idea of a band or pop group or whatever is a product.
The Beatles pretty much patented it and the Monkeys tried to imitate it.
A hundred years ago many people played music just FOR SOMETHING TO DO and enjoy not as a "job" or quasi-religious mission to fame, fortune and influence. You played the fiddle, guitar or piano because there was no telly. And because there was no telly you got pretty good at it. Even here in Essex there are pictures from the 1890s of men sitting in the road with fiddles.
If you'd asked one of them if he was in "a band" when he had finished his melodies, he wouldn't necessarily have known what you meant.
Right that's the rant out of the way. Actually it has potential I think. It's exaggerated but I think it has something.But I should avoid ranting. I will talk about my life maybe.
None of which is meant to slag anyone.
Went to a gig the other night really enjoyed it. And appreciated all the work that had gone into it. The bands were all great.
My ears are recovering quite well.
If anything else was making that amount of noise you would run away or regard it as a hostile act.
It would be nice to hear the lyrics. I'm sure they're excellent.
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I rarely if ever see a view in any of the media that I entirely agree with or that expresses my views.
I am sure I am not alone in this.
I do however see things I agree with in the blogosphere. If I were allowed to write a column in the Guardian or make a television programme, I would spend most of the time explaining how insane I think our society is, and the degree to which I feel the need to express rejection of our society. I don't know if you can do that and get away with it in the mainstream media.