Someone has a bit of a chip on their shoulder. Has knobhead Gallagher learned to write all of a sudden?

He's confusing them with critics who don't "like" it.

Beady Eye are hilariously bad, aren't they?

They're like an indie version of Spinal Tap.

Everyone knows that the current look is 50s Alpine mountaineer, taking over from Scandinavian fisherman, which replaced middle-aged geography teacher. I wish fuckers would keep up.

There was a New Wave Buddy Holly thing between April and May 2009, don't forget. Soon curdled into Surprised 1930s Librarian Chic, mind.

If the iGeneration had any fucking gumption, then every bank holiday we'd get to watch 1950s mountaineers paggering with New Wave Buddy Holly things. It'd be amazing.

They're all mates ignoring each other and staring at their phones in vintage pop-up artisanal cupcake burlesque cabaret farmers' market smoothie cafes now though. There will be no new Quadrophrenia.

I reckon your New Wave Buddy Hollys are doing that, but your 1950s mountaineers are drinking Real Ale in a pub with green tiles on the outside, tweeting and TUMBLRing about how everything was better before some unidentifiable change in something.

So those are the guys who leave comments on YouTube...

It's people who write this blog:

one-up-manship.blogspot.co.uk/

And this blog:

anorthernsoul.net/

And possibly the people who read them. Myself included. Whilst in a Fjall Raven jacket.

Andy Bell's non-Erasure career is a bit of a weird one, isn't it? Guitarist of young upstart NME darlings, gets eclipsed by retro-rock upstarts, forms own retrorock tribute band when former band goes south, joins the band that finished off Ride as some sort of deranged hero-worship, and then joins the offshoot of this. Bizarre.

Different Andy Bells. Oh Soz, you knew that, sorry not concentrating.

No, I don't think so.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bell_%28disambiguation%29

Just kidding.

Sean of the Shed wrote:


Only nowhere near as good as that sounds.

And did you know that Mick Jones wrote and recorded a whole bunch of AOR anthems for Foreigner concurrent to his Clash/BAD work?

No, nor did I.

The Indie Uriah Heep

The Post-Hardcore Paramore.