Sekrit Origins

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the persistent themes in the Now polls is "wow this is my first NOW album" (frantically ticks everything). Another persistent theme is "OK at this point I'd got into indie" (ashamedly ticks nothing). So in the endless search for shared experience let me ask you this question:

How did you get into indie?

and as a bonus question - let's try not to make this too loaded -

If indie is less central to your music listening now than it once was, why do you think this is?

Define the i-word however you like.

I think I have asked similar qns on ILM, but this is a new kettle and these are new fish.

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

True or false: John Peel was a gateway to indie - he played a lot of everything, but if you lived in a decent-sized (or perhaps specifically-sized) town, the stuff that you could go into the one grubby music shop to buy, or that you could see in the one grubby venue, was indie.