1. Going to be rather difficult for indie/Alternate bands to carry on performing to full houses, meaning more guestlist for mere mortals and press alike :) These difficult times for indie bands may be due to the vast amount of bands springing up daily, which is not a bad thing at all as competition intensifies this way but rather music fans are spoilt for choice as most of these bands sound the same thus end up not with hardcore loyal fans BUT "shared" fans with other bands.
2. After spending several months leering over lineups and club nights, it sprung upon me that the gap between persons going to see these "indie"/alternate bands and disc jockeys was being bridged very fast. When one carefully dissects the club events taking place on the london scene at present, it comes to the attention that there are lots of very good and well established disc jockeys plying their trade regularly at events where formerly were "indie-spired" and ending up playing records that one does not associate with "indie".
3. JAY-Z at Glastonbury, LETHAL BIZZLE at Download, THE BANGLES at Cornbury (ok perhaps not them) but yes, these are not lineups one is used to associating with festivals of that magnitude and it has been slowly creeping into lineups suggesting the slow decline of the followers of these lovely "indie" / alternate bands and opening up these events to a much wider audience.
AFTER THE ABOVE BRIEF BIT OF NONSENSE, I LEAVE YOU WITH PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS, AFTER ALL I PREDICTED THE LONDON EARTHQUAKE!!!!
3RD EARL PREDICTIONS
a) ACOUSTIC/INDIVIDUAL ACTS SHALL BE THE IN THING....
b) DJ LED LINEUPS SHALL BE MORE EVIDENT AND LEADING THE WAY....
c) YOU CAN CLEARLY TELL WHICH BANDS ARE CRAP AND WHICH ARE NOT AS IT SHALL NOT BE ALL ABOUT "GUITAR-BASHING" ANYMORE
XXX
3RD "WATCH OUT 2009/2010" EARL
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