6 responses to “Wish they had a vacancy for a back scrubber…”
Jean, that conference looks my idea of some kind of hell. The Smiths were I think responsible for some extremely bad Australian indie pop bands I remember suffering through in my youth, and while the average Smiths fan is OK one-on-one, en masse they can be the apotheosis of self-deprecating preciousness. Still, I think it was always different for girls.
Oh Danny, you are just so wrong! 😉 I’m all for self-deprecating preciousness, for one thing, and for another, The Smiths (and the other usual suspects, The Cure and Depeche Mode) saved my young adolescent hide – there are as we know several layers of hell, and growing up in the Christian subculture of a conservative Queensland town with only a countryandwestern-philic AM radio station and blue light discos has got to rank way, way lower that a room full of Smiths fans, not that I’ve ever been in such a room.
Well I’m a dirty great big filthy goth so I think its great. I love how most of the titles seem to include lyrics!
OK Jean, I think I understand why the Smiths saved your ass, and I appreciate it, but I still don’t know if that means a conference would be any good, except as a “compare the hell the Smiths saved us from” gig 🙂
Actually, your post also made me remember that due to 4ZZZ the role that the Smiths/Cure/Depeche Mode might have played was filled by e.g. Pat Ridgewell and Small World Experience :), who were just as good imho but you could actually see them play. So if there was a 4ZZZ conference perhaps I’d get enthusiastic as well 🙂
Well, my music ignorance was only remedied via mixtapes that arrived in the mail from friends in faraway, metropolitan places – places that had things such as 4ZZZ or JJ…I think a 4ZZZ conference is actually a pretty good idea – maybe we should organise one in our spare time?? I’m thinking that Andrew Stafford’s book Pig City might have provoked a renewed interest in such things…
6 responses to “Wish they had a vacancy for a back scrubber…”
Jean, that conference looks my idea of some kind of hell. The Smiths were I think responsible for some extremely bad Australian indie pop bands I remember suffering through in my youth, and while the average Smiths fan is OK one-on-one, en masse they can be the apotheosis of self-deprecating preciousness. Still, I think it was always different for girls.
Oh Danny, you are just so wrong! 😉 I’m all for self-deprecating preciousness, for one thing, and for another, The Smiths (and the other usual suspects, The Cure and Depeche Mode) saved my young adolescent hide – there are as we know several layers of hell, and growing up in the Christian subculture of a conservative Queensland town with only a countryandwestern-philic AM radio station and blue light discos has got to rank way, way lower that a room full of Smiths fans, not that I’ve ever been in such a room.
Well I’m a dirty great big filthy goth so I think its great. I love how most of the titles seem to include lyrics!
OK Jean, I think I understand why the Smiths saved your ass, and I appreciate it, but I still don’t know if that means a conference would be any good, except as a “compare the hell the Smiths saved us from” gig 🙂
Actually, your post also made me remember that due to 4ZZZ the role that the Smiths/Cure/Depeche Mode might have played was filled by e.g. Pat Ridgewell and Small World Experience :), who were just as good imho but you could actually see them play. So if there was a 4ZZZ conference perhaps I’d get enthusiastic as well 🙂
Well, my music ignorance was only remedied via mixtapes that arrived in the mail from friends in faraway, metropolitan places – places that had things such as 4ZZZ or JJ…I think a 4ZZZ conference is actually a pretty good idea – maybe we should organise one in our spare time?? I’m thinking that Andrew Stafford’s book Pig City might have provoked a renewed interest in such things…