Fucking Indie Culture

[poului]

ert4e654yt54

I mean, who gives themself a name like "ninjaboy" anyway?


That's just gay.

 

[Firky]

you could have the same rant about chavas

but that would be put in the bin, cos they are working class

oasis had a massive council estate following

I still remember BBC news when they both released a single on the same day, "will it be the working class lads from the North or the middle class well to do boys from London who make it to number 1"

Blur were.

 

[118118]

I honestly feel embarrassed to be in the same generation as these people. What a bunch of spoilt, arrogant, image obsessed, uniformed and perpetually narrow-mind prejudiced hypocrites!

You forgot Fat.

 

[poului]

You forgot Fat.

A lot of them are quite skinny actually - as in, couldn't last three seconds in a decent punch up. Which kind of makes their cockiness all the more infuriating.

 

[kakuma]

The last time I checked not all middle-class people were by default indie kids.


yer knobface.

happy christmass

i hope santa gets you something really nice

 

[milesy]

i used to be an indie kid.

i have destroyed all of the photos.

 

[maya]

i have destroyed all of the photos.

.

btw out of interest milesy, how does your and tanky's taglines compute?
i sense some cross-pollination going on... (mood-wise, that is. har har.)

 

[milesy]

it's cos we're both hungry like the wolf

 

[punkrockfaggot]

A lot of them are quite skinny actually - as in, couldn't last three seconds in a decent punch up. Which kind of makes their cockiness all the more infuriating.

TRUE!!! the emo's are worse, for fucks sake, either push the gender bounderies off the edge of a cliff where it belongs or act like a fucking man, not some half-arsed whipish hormoneless cock...

your profile says your not sure of your sexual orientation! umm so your login name. You regret it?

dave

Its 'unsure' cos they don't have a 'stopped labelling myself a long time ago' option...
but i udn't be THAT surprised to have heterosex some time... hell i'd give Joss Stone a broken pelvis if she offered.

as to whether i regret the PRF name itself, i dunno. it used to be my clothing label but i renamed it PLAGIARIST BASTARD, a lil more honest.

 

[Here we go]

the Moon.

don't tell me you've been!

 

[coconutman]

My truely non-emo page www.myspace.com/protest_song

*derail*


I remember some guy in that ohso-alternative gaybar poptastic, who had a bag with "Indier than thao" scrawled on it... wudve been almost cool if he didn't spend the whole nite just perfecting his aloof snooty fucking pose...

So you know Leftover Crack/CV... did you see them in UK? I know they have toured in UK couple of times. I seen them maybe 3-4 times in NYC and once in Chicago, amazing band man. Morning Glory is also good btw.


Lol... i go the same damn shit too. Also No Gods/ No Managers and my favorite " Rock the 40oz "

 

[punkrockfaggot]

I saw Stza crack at Sheffield a few weks ago...

i want his babies.

EDIT: Just noticed your username...

"FFFFFUUUCK YOOOOOOUUUU!!!! WHO STOLE THE MONEY FROM THE HOUSE FUND? WAS IT THE COCONUTMAN....?

FUCK THE COCONUTMAN!!!!"

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

and you have NPL and the Winchester as well - NPL's probably the best indie club in Britain.

Ah national pop league *drifts into reverie*

 

[starfish2000]

My band played a few London gigs recently. We go down well, but theres always a few "scenesters" staring at you with their arms folded. But the most obnoxious thing I've seen is when we were carrying equipment to the van after the gig. This girl sees us coming towards her and does'nt even move. As we got nearer we started saying excuse me.....etc, she continoues to ignore us. As we manage to avoid knocking her over with a really big box of drum hardware she screams out "whats your fucking problem". Our drummer replies "this is heavy and you are an ignorant bitch". Superb

 

[peppery]

If there was any need of a reminder of why I've got no fucking time for the indie scene anymore it was tonight.


Persuaded to go to a Koko "Club NME" thing with some truly abysmal bands playing. And if that wasn't enough, it was populated by some of the most obnoxious individuals imaginable.

As per usual, the "don't care/to cool for you" attitude was in abundance, and translated to over a dozen instances of some idle cuntpipes treading on my foot, shouldering me as they were trying to get past me and without a hint of an acknowledgement let alone and apology.

Went to the bogs once to see some wasitcoated wanker pissing in the corner of the room for absolutely no good reason (given that the urinals were fully operational and had plenty of room) - doubtless he saw no problem with the fact that someone less fortunate than him would of course have to clean his mess up eventually. But then he'd just be some poor, worthless Mexican, so who cares!? Where's my hair straightener? - I was so pissed off by this point that I slammed the door right into him whilst exiting (and I'm not usually a violent guy).

And to top it all up, at my final attempt to savour the experience by trying to have a bop (a Blitzkrieg Bop even, the one saving grace of the evening!) on the dancefloor all was swiftly undermined by some prat in the crowd throwing a lighter which landed on my forehead. Given that it was too dark/crowded to even stand a chance of singling out the fucker responsible and gouge his eyes out with it I decided to leave ASAP. And that was that.


I honestly feel embarrassed to be in the same generation as these people. What a bunch of spoilt, arrogant, image obsessed, uniformed and perpetually narrow-mind prejudiced hypocrites! It staggers me how utterly repellant these people are - I've seen drug dealers at squat parties with a better sense of decorum, just what is going on!? Please, all you "classic indie" people on here, please tell me it wasn't always like this. It can't have been, surely?

You sound like Tobyjug

 

[noodles]

innit. i've narrowly avoided fights with indie kids the last couple of times i went to afterskool. there's just some sneering arrogance about these days that really sickens me.

I've also had the misfortune to find myself in afterskool. I don't think I have ever been surrounded by so many arrogant and pretentious arseholes in all my life.

 

[cathal marcs]

don't tell me you've been!

I have sadly only once mind and left after one drink.

 

[Glosoli]

I've also had the misfortune to find myself in afterskool. I don't think I have ever been surrounded by so many arrogant and pretentious arseholes in all my life.

tell me about it. one time i went half way through the night they cornered off the stage so that none of us 'plebs' could get up and released the dj's to dance around and play air guitar up there for ages while we all crammed in the sweatpit that was the dancefloor below...

they may as well have been wanking all over us.

it was hideous.

tossers.

 

[wtfftw]

Isnt there some annual airguitar contest?
I just don't get it.

 

[StuPC]

<heads into wild blue yonder of off-topic-ness>

As an ageing, slightly balding, non-scene-putting-up-with, slightly reformed indie boy who wants a decent indie birthday night out, where would folks recommend I go in London on a Saturday in January for a decent indie night out?

There's a real dearth of Saturday night indie clubs if you don't really want to go to -
The Garage
That King's College student night just off the Strand
The Astoria

Can anyone recommend the Christmas Club at the Borderline?
Anywhere small and nice and "indie" would do really...

<returns from wild blue yonder of off-topic-ness>

 

[clandestino]

any saturday in particular? what kind of music do you want - haircut indie hits, old school indie classics, electro indie mash up, indie with chips, indie on a stick? have a look at londonnet - that's pretty good for clubs.

 

[StuPC]

any saturday in particular? what kind of music do you want - haircut indie hits, old school indie classics, electro indie mash up, indie with chips, indie on a stick? have a look at londonnet - that's pretty good for clubs.

Saturday 14th January is the big day.
As for kind of music, not too punk and shouty-shouty, possibly with a smattering of classics, but otherwise anything goes... In fact, something not too unlike HDIF...

 

[StuPC]

Saturday 14th January is the big day.
As for kind of music, not too punk and shouty-shouty, possibly with a smattering of classics, but otherwise anything goes... In fact, something not too unlike HDIF...

Ooh, did you know my Skype tagline is the same as your Urban one?? Well I never! We must have been reincarnted with the same chakras in our crystal when our tarots were divined. Or something.

Good old Galaxie 500.

 

[editor]

which is why i'm proud that the age range at HDIF goes from teenagers to people in their forties - and no one sneers at the older folks. the dj is one of them after all.

Much the same at Offline too!

 

[clandestino]

have a look here..
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/clubs/indiepopnights.html

might be worth leaving it for a week and seeing if it's updated.

of those, blow up might be OK. i went for a mate's birthday this summer and there was an hour of northern, then an hour of kaiser chiefs/libertines/killers etc, but not much in the way of old school indie.

some friends of mine do a club called london loves, which mixes modern indie, britpop and bits of soul. that's on a saturday, but not sure which one.

otherwise, casino royale - if it's on that night - could work. soul, sixties, etc downstairs, and indie hits upstairs. could be worth finding out what's at the monarch on that saturday.

good luck!

 

[editor]

of those, blow up might be OK.

Fact!

I used to be in the band with the bloke that runs Blow Up!

 

[StuPC]

Fact!

I used to be in the band with the bloke that runs Blow Up!

Ah, but can he DJ??

 

[clandestino]

Fact!

I used to be in the band with the bloke that runs Blow Up!

offline guest DJ?

 

[clandestino]

ah, london loves is saturday 7th, which is a shame as judging by the playlist i think it might have been perfect. although push - the venue it's at - is tiny.

 

[StuPC]

Yeah, I just noticed that. And the Monarch is apparently doing nothing whatsoever that night.

The way things are looking I'll be having to pay for a special one-off HDIF/Offline mash-up in my flat!

<Thinks...smiles furtively...imagines what wife would say...sighs>