the 1975

"Do you like tiresome back and forths about authenticity in music? Then you'll love this ILM thread!"

What connections and insider leg-ups have they benefitted from? I don't know enough about The 1975's rise but it doesn't seem like Healy's parents would have much sway in the music industry.

the band did have a 6 month residency on Loose Women tbf

SKOA Shey: So, let's start simple, what made you guys want to start out as a band, you all started recording together quite young didn't you?

Matt Healy: Yeah, well me personally, my Dad's friends were in quite big bands, my Dad used to knock about with Dire Straights and things like that in the 80's. So I knew a lot of that crowd when I was a kid, so I suppose that was the first thing that I wanted to do, we just started playing in punk bands when we were 13/14.

It is to his credit that he does not hide the nepotism, I guess

so mark knopfler twanged a few strings for him

tbf my dad lent Squeeze his gear once

also had crucial early exposure in the Macclesfield Express

http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/local-news/auf-weidersehen-hello-pop-idol-2543673

His renditions of The La's 'There She Goes' and the Oasis classic 'Don't Look Back in Anger' had the crowds heaving in the school's main hall.

I read

"enviable connections"

and I read

"son of two jobbing UK TV entertainers"

I thinkthose people were arguing the same point

Stretching the definition of nepotism there.

Given that they'd been together in one form or another for years before getting a deal, the nepotism didn't work all that well.

And, yes, they have an image. I thought pretty much all bands did. Has that become a bad thing now?

By the way, Turrican, could you tell us the truth about what happened on 9/11?

http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/local-news/auf-weidersehen-hello-pop-idol-2543673

― strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:14 Bookmark

jpeg should be album cover

the nine eleven-teen seventy five

it's about ethics in music journalism, duh

i like how he's holding a proper power chord for the pose, must have hurt his fingers a bit

afaict they had great, extremely insistent pr around the time the sex ep came out, that was probably a factor

they'd been together in one form or another for years before getting a deal

Well, it's apparent they were biding their time until they'd got their calculators out and perfected the optimum formula for their name, music, image, presentation, interview technique etc. I'm sure they were shrewd enough to realise that they'd only really have one shot once they got to a certain level, because christ did people like to remind Viva Brother that they used to be Kill The Arcade, so they took their time calculating and preparing everything to give the impression that they'd arrived fully formed. Very shrewd move to totally think things through like that.

the 1975 is a terrible band name

it is, yet somehow we're past it now. the usual reference point for this phenomenon being "the beatles" obv

in the 90s i had a theory that the worse the title of the techno record, the better the music was

that theory worked for stuff like sweet exorcist's clonk's coming

they used to call themselves the slow down which is actually worse

if they were any good at naming things I'd be a lot more charitable

the tracklist for their first album is some proper nails down chalkboard shit for me

gonna go ahead and predict the tracklist for album 2

Great
Relationships
Love Me
Not Yours
With You
Harmony
Y.O.U.T.H.
The Bible
Maximum
Yours
Party Feel
Now So Madly

I just heard these guys a few months ago, but I really dig their videos and sound. Looking forward to their new record.

very shrewd move to totally think things through like that

they used to call themselves the slow down which is actually worse

also drivelikeido

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28XPsc3EztQ

oh here's a youtube channel of all their pre 1975 recordings lolll http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0r7wF7LdTONmWL5ljVW2Q

oversight from tracklist: Love You

imago have you ever listened to "haunt // bed"

Should have called it Shrewd Moves

Lyrics to this are truly ridic.

the 1975 is a superlatively dope name for a band that sounds like 80's music imo

I think it's very important this band has a "The" in their name.

imago have you ever listened to "haunt // bed"

― Tim F, Monday, October 12, 2015 8:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o hey they can do mbv-inflected balearic vibez q well, reminds me of Strategy a bit (were u a fan? surely)

haha shit, they're not only still around but they had an album out this year

Of Strategy I only know (but love) 'Future Rock'. I vaguely recall they went quite minimal ambient after that?

The reason I asked re "Haunt // Bed" is that, for me at least (and maybe others in this thread) that kind of thing was a big part of the initial attraction of this band, rather than they looked like they might become "pop royalty" or whatever. And there's a lot of material on their EPs in this general vein - "Facedown", "Intro/Set 3", "Undo", "Anobrain", "Fallingforyou". They even did this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im87CVVb46M

This sounds alot like the Sound and Vision version of Bowie's "Fame", doesn't it?

You mean Fame 90?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-qDhR2shQ

Then yes, yes it does.

Yeah, that's the one. I couldn't remember the year.

There's a lot of Notorious/Big Thing-era Duran Duran in this too.

What an amazing piece of filmmaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5bZuUlftI

sloppy rig imo, put a jacket on

also lol @ the Charli XCX and Rita Ora cardboard cut outs

I bet Rita Ora is horrified to be included.

I almost died when i saw him kissing the harry styles cardboard cut out.