Bringing In The New Noise

Today's blog comes in a normal rant about the media, music, mainstream-ness, and how nobody has any free will about what they listen to anymore. Oh and me pimping out one of my favourite bands that you should go listen to NOW (actually, if you're reading this blog, you probably already like them...)

I got on Facebook today at around 10pm only to be confronted by the following statuses:

"Batchwood was awesome :) x"
"JEDWARD WAS AMAZINGGG. BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE <3"

... So what? You saw Jedward at Batchwood, and it was the best night of your life? Seeing a pair of blond people who cannot sing, did not even win XFactor and probably didn't come out and see their (screamy fangirly and almost certainly fucking terrifying) fans?
Really? Did it beat all the nights you hung out with your friends and cracked lame jokes? The days you spent shopping or chilling with people you love?
Seeing some Sean Smith wannabe twats sing autotuned songs written by underpaid people with more rhyming dictionaries than braincells? Really?

This is what I posted on Facebook in response:

"Dear all those who love Jedward and saw them tonight: Fuck off. Go see a real band, one who've had to work and didn't get by on hair and bad acting. See a band who have fans who've followed them for ten years and know every word to every song they wrote themselves. Go see a real band, and not some talentless gits who just got a lucky break."

This all goes back to the whole Rage Against The Machine thing. The 'machin'e is popular media, and 90% of the population will follow exactly what they are told. It's up to us, the 10% who got away, to rage against it and to spread the word. If you turn on most radio stations they will play the most popular music, and you will get sucked into a never-ending cycle. All popular music is on the radio, and you will get to like it by listening to it, so you will go out and buy it, hence it will become more popular and get played more. So more people will listen, and like it, and buy it... It's a vicious cycle.

To be honest, the music industry is turning to shit. I want to work for a magazine like Kerrang! or RockSound, one who support the little bands struggling to make it because they have all the talent and none of the backing.
You want to go see a new band? Go see Young Guns, with a lead singer so beautiful and talented he will make your heart race, and songs big enough to land aeroplanes on. Go see My Passion, with electro grooves and a rave vibe. Go see Deaf Havana for a good ear battering, or Don Broco because they are a hip-hop/hardcore crossover with amazing results. They are bands who have, with almost no press behind them, worked hard and slummed it. They have built up fanbases through original songs and hard work and through talking to fans like they're old friends, earning money by playing gigs and selling merch.

Young Guns are giving away their new single Winter Kiss as a free download. Even if you've never heard them before, go listen. It's all about spreading the word. And they were selling a bundle for £6. Poster, hard copy single, tshirt. They earnt no money from it whatsoever. They just want to get heard, and they bloody well should be.
Whoever you are, go download their single. It's fucking amazing. Better than any Jedward cover you'll ever hear, and that is a FACT (Fucking Amazing Clear Truth).

This is a shoutout to my twinny Laura, who is currently in Southampton or going towards it. It was great to see her agan and I'll see her next week at K! tour, where the mighty My Passion and Young Guns will, of course, be playing!