Nick Kent's Rockist Christmas Treat

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1109440,00.html

I'm too young to know who Nick Kent is, of course...

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ho ho ho!

"Still, what bugs me the most is the lack of any coherent musical "underground" scene beginning to emerge under the repressive rubble of contemporary culture. I'm not talking about a bunch of groups ranting anti-Bush/Blair diatribes over thug-lite techno rhythms."

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

'thug-lite techno rhythms' -- that's right, dad.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't see anyone from this new generation coming up who's capable of giving concert performances of that high a quality."

piffle. Durst will still be packing them in 15 years down the line you mark my words.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just looking around, wondering when and from where the next wave of disaffected but creative and ambitious young people are going to emerge in order to make an exciting, genuinely "alternative" new music

once again this is not going to happen unless you are prepared to accept 'grime' or 'electro-punk' or 'plunderphonic psuedopop' as new - and beyond them i can't imagine anything else either. same rant next week/month/year then?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i just get annoyed that whenever this point is raised in an article the author never seems to make an attempt to speculate what exactly the new sound will be? is that not part of their remit as a critic? to wonder why there are no new ideas when you don't even bother to try and think of any yourself seems absurd. it would've been more interesting to take the 'no more heroes' line and explore it as a good thing rather than a bad one - Kent claims he is optimistic here but it reads more like the desperate plea of someone who already has no hope.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm old enough to remember the same rant in Record Mirror in 1976, verily as they were giving you a 'punk' calendar in the mid pages...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect nick kent was a silly old fart the day he was born.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 December 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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