Are rock bands being squeezed out by dance acts?
Well, they're a rock'n'roll band, and I have no problem with rock'n'roll bands being sloppy and loose.
His companions are equally creaking, if not quite so visually terrifying, and one guesses that the young bands being booked are a source of bewilderment to them.
The pub rock tradition has never left Canvey and Southend entirely, cover bands being a kind of folk tradition in the area.
They laid waste, too, to a herd of ghastly old hobby horses about guitar bands being unmarketable and record sales only being tied to women's state of undress.
Yet this was no mere quirk but rather a glimpse into the future – the era of bands being signed on the strength of their MySpace "friends" was just around the corner.
It's a well-worn SXSW cliche for journos to talk of British bands being "out of place" at Austin – as if they expect all UK acts to turn up suppin' rough Bourbon and unveil their new bluegrass direction for y'all.
The post-Madchester years were an odd time to be a young indie fan, with many of the most popular bands being not just really pretty bad, but funny as well.
Maybe things got so fancy with the internet and bands being so overproduced, that I came up on the Jools Holland show banging on the ground and yellin', and people went 'Oh!' It's like a relief valve".
Here, in the sublimely conjured atmosphere of a Norfolk girls' school, with its "small, chemical indoor pool which smelt fierce", its "clotted grass, and the electric snag of bands being pulled through hair, and the sound of a distant piano", the real oddity that is Moira develops.
I suspect the onstage sound was just a cacophony with nothing very coherent, probably knocking guitars against each other on the small stage and most likely just our mates came along; which would have included the Chapterhouse lads seeing as we were all friends prior to either of our bands being signed.
