Before i start i didnt like this band but not out of spite - just the music didnt appeal. I found out yesterday that they had split up after not only changing their name but getting dropped as well. I only felt a bit sorry for them as it was only last year that we had played on the same bill as them at Death Disco and were clearly more popular than us which at the time annoyed me in that typical irrational jealous way. Then they got signed, then they got played on radio. Having spoken to them before the gig I wished them well as they'd been nice people and their fans had been polite enough to stay and watch us so I wasn't sat in my bedroom knifing the radio with a paper opener everytime 'Blue Skies' came on. I also aplauded them for having endured 5 years on the mournful and dream-taking bog circuit until they got signed. It didnt mean that I had to like their music still.
so afer all those years of trying to make it, they get dropped and then they split up - surely it would have been better if they'd never been signed and just kept dreaming? I wander if this applies to a great many bands?
Best of luck for the future and for god's sake never be embittered - you weren't the others after all and feel blessed for that.
that's quite
beautiful...
and a bit
out of character!
see the post i've made on the music forum for andrew needs' take on the thing. a lot of poptones problems there...
i read that post.
Interesting even if i didn't like the Needs...
you could argue that
they were the best band on Poptones which has turned out to be a rather disappointing label and this is coming from someone who worshipped Creation as a kid!
I hope it wasn't out of character really - I just want the good bands and decent people to do well and damn to hell the sort of Bosch-esque crap that the special needs music forum rant quite rightly goes on about.
i have a tinge of guilt for not liking them but I imagine they'd think we weren't good and hope they'd like us as people!
I thought this blog was fantastic.
I haven't heard anything by this band and consequently I can't comment on the quality of their music but the rant on the music forum by the keyboardist (?) really stirred some emotions in me. Being in a band is something that I have always aspired to and I guess people like me have a completely romanticised notion of what it is like to be in a band. I never consider the bitterness and jealousy that being in a band engenders in it's members (despite many of my favourite bands splitting up in quite acrimonious circumstances). I think it just triggered a real sadness about the circumstances the keyboardist found himself in and the whole notion of missed opportunities.
From my sadly limited experiences the only thing I can relate it to is my experience in relationships, where my brief foray ended quite acrimoniously. I would like to think that this will not inhibit me in future and I will throw myself into potentially lasting relationships with wild and reckless abandon because there is always the possibility it may turn into something incredible, although at present I can't yet tell.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really hope this experience doesn't significantly alter the members of Special Needs for the worst and they move into future projects with the same enthusiasm that they tackled this one. Naivete and youth, in my opinion, are two of the most important factors in many bands producing such exciting and vibrant music and I would hate to think that one bad experience would deter a group of potentially talented musicians from trying to achieve their dreams in future.
Maybe we all want to live out our frustrated and unfulfilled dreams through our favourite bands so to read about someone detailing their own depressing experience of the music industry can really strike a chord.
I hope this all makes sense, it's been a long day. T x
Sorry, that was my 'emo' housemate
ROFL Macchio, he forgot to re-login.
This after pub posting is a risky business!
creation was great.
But he dropped the few bands that were good on Poptones ( SingSings or January ) years ago !