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| Biography |
We can only start at the
beginning. We are the young who are growing old in dying towns, the
voids of 20th century collapse. These towns are full of the
isolated, the betrayed, the condemned. They hold nothing dear to
their hearts apart from their apathy and a long distant memory of
home. Where we live, you have nothing more to do than bury your
ambition.
In these piss streaked towns, we formed as a direct reaction to the
social degeneracy, the institutionalised racism, homophobia and
sexism. On this island of shit that floats on a sea of junk, we
formed to embrace the future which we are raised to believe is all
we can achieve. We are the subversive crop which sprang from the
seed planted by Labour, by Conservatism, by the empty promises made
by liberals who never had the passion nor the courage to follow
their words through. We are the crash and burn spectacular of modern
culture. These are the basic aesthetics of the band. We believe in
taking what we need from the past and discarding the rest,
destroying it and starting again making sure we do not repeat the
mistakes. The problem with many trends is that they are rehashes of
the old ideas. They have no substance because they do not speak for
a generation. It’s disgusting to think that there are genuinely
new ideas, revolutionary moves towards the future being formulated
but they are seemingly unwelcome in a world dominated by retro
fashion, the most odious pieces of culture, fashion and art left
over by the diminished responsibility era of the hippy generation.
We have no use for the substance less, the empty and the shallow.
Our generation has no distinguishable sound. It has no life, no
passion. It preaches only hedonism, ignorance and once again,
diminished responsibility. It is more than frightening to see our
television stations filled with trashy, unsophisticated garage
bands, more than frightening to hear our radio waves filled with
faceless, corporate anthems. There are no alternatives. We do not
believe in these bands, we do not believe in these artists. There
are no heroes. There are only anachronisms. Repugnant, atavistic
prophets of nothingness. We had no choice but to become the band we
could believe in, the band who would speak for everything we stand
for. We want a return to the basic values of the socially and
politically aware. We want to become something the disenfranchised
can hold onto. We remain deeply cynical of the lies we are spoon fed
every day, the blank culture that we despise.
We have been searching for years for a label who will indulge our
renegade ideals. We understand that any good band must have ideas
above its station. It is far more exciting, much more of a visceral
thrill. Any good band should court it’s audience; take it through
highs and lows, confusion and realisation, revolution and evolution.
We simply have too many ideas to cope with on our own. Good music is
nothing more than a soundtrack love affair. Music is not used as a
carrier wave anymore. We don’t believe in any of the bands that
claim to have something to say. They sound like the rest of the shit
we hate. Entryism is an excellent idea as it stands but there is
nothing more to these bands. I have yet to hear a band for this
generation who make me want to tear down buildings or destroy
institutions.
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