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jimmy's answers
what's your motivation ?
to be honest i think that the main thing that is motivating me is the fact that when i was growing up, the idea of doing a job that i hated really didn't appeal to me, funnily enough. which was why the same month that i finished my a levels, about 2 years ago now, i just straight away went down to denmark street and started putting up the notices to, hopefully, get a band going. so i guess that when we started to get the band going, we realised that it was not really that hard to get gigs, get songs done. it's good having a job that you actually love doing, and look forward to going to. there is not really that many jobs that have that said about them, certainly not any other ones that i have done anyway. i've always enjoyed going to gigs so when i started actually doing them, with the band, i thought it was a bit mad that now the people that were coming to see us were, hopefully anyway, enjoying our music as much as i had enjoyed the bands that i saw growing up. so in short i think the motivation is just looking forward to doing all the gigs and getting new songs done. in the style of nme :
do you like white stripes/strokes/hives new rock stuff ?
personally, i do. i'll happily listen to the strokes, the vines and , most of all, brmc who i think are a band that at the moment are fireing on all cylinders. them and the white stripes are doing great things at the moment. i wouldn't say that they have directly influenced us that much in style, although i would say that these bands do have the same influences as us. i think a great thing that they have done is they have enabled the music scene to progress as they have given it a push if you like. all of these bands have helped to start this so called "no name movement", so without these bands there would not be as many british bands that would be getting known.
have the last 2 years been a good or bad thing for uk music considering these headline acts are all usa.
it is quite sad that the uk hasn't had as much guitar success in the last few years as the us, but i think that because all of the main guitar band in britain who are well known, the hives, strokes, etc, it is not something that is killing british music, but it is just making british music look bad in comparison. having said that though i think that it will only take 2 or 3 great british bands before people start heralding music to be at it's peak. a key example of this is what happened in the late 60's. i'll agree that, for me, it was the greatest period for britain, but if you take away the top 5 bands, the beatles, rolling stones, the kinks, the who and led zeppelin, there is not that much done by british bands that is hailed as being truly worthy of being legendary. much of the stuff through history has been a few british bands at the top of the tree, like in the 70's bowie, t-rex, elton john, and then loads of american bands that, while there is much more of them, the one's that there are are not as great as the british bands. but then i guess that that is all a matter of opinion. so imagine the scene if a few great brit bands came along., that is all that it would take and i think that it is plausable that it could happen
in other words - the future of guitar based music in uk. discuss.
ever since the beatles got turned down by decca people have been saying that guitar music is on the way out. that's probably because people see other genre's of music growing, like dance and stuff like that, but it doesn't necessarily mean that if other genre's of music are growing that others will have to shrink. i can see loads of new british bands that will, hopefully, be keeping british music going strong, like the music and the coral. you only have to look at the way that the last 3 radiohead albums have gone down with the majority of people to see that there is still a great demand for guitar based rock music. people have been saying for the last 40 years or so that guitar music will be dying and it's on the way out, and while now it may not be at the peak of the late 60's, it certainly is going strong.
what's your favourite colour .. and why (ok thats a bit deep maybe for smash hits)
blue! all my favourite things are blue. my favourite internet sites, movies............................. if you can't put that then just say black. not in a moody way though. it's just easier to keep clean. it's meant to be slimming, isn't it? or is that white. hmmmm, i don't know. yeah, black will do.