Sounds From The Junkshop #78 - Chris T-T
"I fell in love on April Fools' Day/I dug a hole so deep it scared me" - Chris T-T - Tomorrow Morning In my post-uni years, as I've mentioned in the Dead Pets SFTJ entry , I was a bit aimless when it came to music (and indeed life in general). I was rapidly becoming disillusioned with whatever Strokes/Limp Bizkit rehash the NME and Kerrang respectively were trying to foist on me week in week out and was starting to wander off the beaten track a bit in terms of trying to find music I liked. I've often said that by 2002-3 sort of time I was pretty much done with "indie" music - sure there were a few good bands who managed to sneak through the hole in the wall that the Strokes created but by the time the Libertines came along with their club-footed third division take on the Only Ones ' classic formula it seemed like we were stuck in a downward spiral of diminishing returns - Razorlight, the Arctic Monkeys, the Cribs, the Fratellis, the View...by t...