Touching from a distance, further all the time.

The mentality of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was so fresh; willing to push something new into the forefront of music, because it was new. It’s an ideology, a sound, a scene that has stuck around in some element for twenty years now.

I wish that I could be part of band, or a movement, that was new and wasn’t faddish like indie-rave or something. A new energy that means something, that has a buzz around it; something that hasn’t been transcribed in terms of identity and music before.

It’s sad that this is a near impossible task, to find something new now, without using technology to the max, would take a genius. I feel that the drum & bass/Dubstep movement has replaced the 90’s rave culture – the acceptance of drugs etc. Then the Joy Division/post punk revival we’re kind of seeing now, as it’s the influence of so many bands these days is again like a replacement of the past.

It just seems like something of the time just reinvents something from the previous decade or so ago, and lives off that. We need an image at the head of the scene, pushing it. Guiding it.

I've had to start up a second blog, for a uni assignment, regarding writing online. The topics are pretty dull, but writing practice all the same! Check it out here.