Revolutionary Rants

I was listening to some of my old records today when I was packing for my driving trip back home, and iTunes fell upon an old album by the Bluetones.

This set me to thinking - in a nostalgic vein, remembering when I saw them on a lovely sunny Friday afternoon at Glastonbury 2000 - wondering, whatever happened to the Bluetones? And, indeed, what ever happened to other such lovely bands, like Ooberman (does ANYONE else remember and love their single - perhaps the only one ever! - ‘Blossoms Falling’?), the 60 Foot Dolls and the Longpigs?!?!

I had a look for the Bluetones’ on the web, and their ‘official’ site claims they are now a popular ‘underground band’ - how can this be when they had a top ten hit with ‘Slight Return’, played, as before mentioned, the main stage at Glasto’ and were the toast of the music press circa 1998/99?

I miss the 1990s, maybe in is just because it was “my era”, but it just seems to me that music now is nothing compared to 1995, when even the ’small’ bands were half decent - probably even better than Franz Ferdinand (and definitely better than the flaming Scissor Sisters - love the style and guts, shame about the music)… Who even bothers with the hugely popular bands of. say, the year i started university 2001, the Strokes, anymore? The Libertines have already gone kaput for goodness’ sake!!!

OK, so everyone would love to have had 1977 as their era, but if you can’t have the Beatles, or the Pistols what better time for music was there than the mid to late 1990s? We had the Manics, Blur verses Oasis, Britpop, Nirvana (if you like that sort of thing)… and Northern Uproar!

OK, so it is nostalgia, but hey, it f**king did rock!