Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been....?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the battlegrounds in the Hip Hop Wars was NME's "C86" cassette, a tape compiled by some of the paper's writers, later described as "the most indie thing to have ever existed". While many of the bands were later embarassed by it and while it suffers from the usual post-facto "OMG it wasn't a scene" backlash (sure, it wasn't a scene in the sense of bands working and collaborating together, but it captures a mood quite well), its legend lives on.

Here's a poll about it:


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Re: THE HIPHOP WARS: a personal memoir

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the specific faction failed when cosgrove was ousted -- he is now big name at channel four -- and the writers that remained were none of them very effective office-politics organisers: hewitt "sold out" i would say (at least in hiphop hitler terms); o'hagan is always just canny with who is in the ascendent i'm afraid

to be fair i think the britpop line had solid evolutionary links with the earlier red wedge kinnockism -- the hiphop faction were strategically pro anything hewitt's schoolchum paul weller did* -- with the gallaghers in place of wishywashy soul

*haha i recall the STUNNED LOOKS ON ALL FACES as we trooped out of the showing of the style council's film JERUSALEM -- has this ever surfaced since? it is awesome poor

Re: THE HIPHOP WARS: a personal memoir

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure Stuart Cosgrove is still a C4 bigwig cos he now presents the Saturday afternoon football round-up on BBC Scotland - often w/ Indie football fan Pat Nevin!!