Sounds From The Junkshop Bonus: Footnotes 2003
As a few entries since we did the last Footnotes should hopefully demonstrate, by 2003 the music scene was starting to change again. By now, nu-metal was pretty much dead and buried after the Darkness had nuked it (the likes of Limp Bizkit and Korn were starting to see their chart positions wane) while the pig-headedness of fratpunk was starting to be subsumed by its less humourous whiny younger sibling emo. Garage punk was still grimly hanging on at this point but a lot of the bands who'd broken through in the Strokes' wake were starting to run out of road a bit by this point while the rise of the Darkness and the publication of Motley Crue's The Dirt were seeing the start of a new noughties Britrock revival (although a lot of the bands in this variant were looking across the Atlantic, specifically Sunset Strip, for their influences rather than their homeland). Me? Well, I was out of Uni by this point and still trying to get my bearings back in Leeds. I seem to remember...