The story goes like this: Justin Vernon, jobbing musician and survivor of two failed bands endures a traumatic romantic break-up and flees to his father's remote cabin in the woods of north Wisconsin.
From San Diego, the pair had played in failed bands forever until 2003 and a trip to Paris, where they wrote a self-financed, self-titled album on their own label, Pineapple, which led to their major-label release this year, The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (Atlantic).
We're tired of failed band-aid approaches, and fed up with "politics as usual" approach to the immigration issue.
The Ting Tings, for it is they, are the Mancunian duo made up of one refugee from a failed girl group, and another from a failed indie band.
His greatest strength, that he can chat to Mr and Mrs Ordinary and console Master Ordinary's failed boy band, is the source of some of his greatest criticism.
When the G20 met in London in 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, the leaders failed to band together to regulate the financial sector so that this type of crisis would never happen again.
It leaves no way to hide from mediocrity: if an album or concert fails, the band can't fall back on the old excuse that the fans, the media, the record company or radio programmers didn't get it.
Or rather, the interviewer fails Mr. Band every time.
Just as the what-if mindset rules the population, another aspect which hovers over the nation as a whole is the failure to unite- we fail to band together, be it on religious festivals of Eid.
