Sinister: Cockernee scumbag puts in his two-cents worth

[Keith Watson]

>       'Ok', say sarah and everyone else outside the M25, 'but why should I
>give a fuck?'
>And fair enough. You don't have to care. You just have to realise that
Xfm's
>death is another sign of indie failure, that it brands us as losers, a tag
>that I thought we didn't deserve.
>Xfm gave massive exposure to bands like, hey, Salako, Snow Patrol and Belle
>and Sebastian, and helped them sell more records, and establish them as,
erm,
>moderately known bands. What happens to the next generation of Jeepster
>signings? You won't hear them on 1fm, certainly not before Midnight,
anyway.
> Most of all, it's a sign of the growing chasm between 'their' music and
>'ours'. Without a voice in the heart of Europe's music industry, there's
>nowhere indie can go except back into it's ghetto.
>Which means more of your favourite bands being dropped from majors, record
>shops going to the wall, and ten more years of shit on the TV and radio.
> But hey, I don't care, 'cause I don't live in london...



I don't care on the grounds that if XFM's idea of "Our Music" are bands like
Snowpatrol then frankly they can keep them. I'd rather Fleetwood Mac than
Jack at this juncture. Another "Indie failure" is a natural problem in that
99.9% of the music simply isn't good enough. It's definitely a good thing
having people broadcast new music - I mean, I for one am all for the likes
of John Peel playing anything and everything on his show. But frankly
haven't been able to actually listen to his program since having to sit
through a Terminal Cheesecake session in 1988. In any case, for the few
years that XFM's been running, all I've really seen happening in the music
scene in Britain is a great big thing called britpop when loads of bands
from London copied loads of bands from the sixties... Grrreat. I haven't
seen any great improvement in the scene at all. I'm afraid though that I'm
just not of the opinion that if you get some bloke on the radio who'll play
absolutely anyone - that they're some sort of a hero. You say Radio 1 won't
be playing these bands before midnight, well they've certainly played plenty
of Belle and Sebastian, and I can't say I really care about them not playing
the other bands. Anyway again I'm not having a go - I just can't say I care
about a radio station going down when it's a) shite (what I've heard of it)
b) I don't get it anyway (like 50 million others) and c) has had no
noticable positive effect on the "scene" at all.

Thanks,
    Keith.


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