It's Worse Than I Thought

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Compiling the weekly chart polls it has often struck me that there seems to be a fair bit of indie in the Top 40 right now. To be more specific, British Indie.

And it's true! Below the cut is a list of UK indie bands who had a hit in 2007 and first charted during the last two years. The 2006 cut-off point has meant excluding characters like The Rakes, Biffy Clyro and The Cribs, who all seem to have previous.

CLASS OF 2006:
The Automatic
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Guillemots
Larrikin Love
Little Man Tate
Long Blondes
Maccabees
Pigeon Detectives
The Fratellis
The Holloways
The Klaxons
The View

CLASS OF 2007:
Air Traffic
Ben's Brother
Cherry Ghost
Elliot Minor
Enter Shikari
Foals
Gallows
Ghosts
Good Shoes
Hadouken!
Hoosiers
Koopa
Mesh 29
Mumm-Ra
Reverend And The Makers
Scouting For Girls
The Enemy
The Horrors
The Twang
The Wombats
Tiny Dancers

I have a couple of questions. First and foremost is who on earth are these people? I think we can provide a useful service if we turn this post into your cut-out and keep guide to nindie, 07-style. So, if you ACTUALLY KNOW what a band here sounds like or is trying to do could you use the comments box to summarise it in a sentence. Keep abuse to the minimum. Details of gimmicks particularly helpful! I would also like to know who each band are ripping off most (aside from other bands on the list).

That way we can provide an invaluable guide to chart nindie with details for:

SOUNDS LIKE:
GIMMICK:
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE:

Which is all you need know about a given band, surely?

Comments

doin mah civic duty

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Elliot Minor
SOUND LIKE: one of those bands my friends were in during the whole Nu-Metal thing (nb: I was thirteen at this time)
GIMMICK: choirboy background
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Iron Maiden probably HAR HAR HAR HAR DI HAR

Enter Shikari
SOUND LIKE: Lostprophets' lairy younger brothers
GIMMICK: synthesiser
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Battles. Actually this is not right. There was a trance-punk band I thought of the other day and realised it was what Enter Shikari will never be.

Gallows
SOUND LIKE: hardcore punk screaming business
GIMMICK: from Hertfordshire or wherever. Srsly, you cannot read anything about them without it being prefixed by this fact.
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Err, Napalm Death maybe?

Ghosts
SOUND LIKE: Delays
GIMMICK: sounding like Delays
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Delays

Hadouken!
SOUND LIKE: a recording of some drunk 16-25 year olds
GIMMICK: hats
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Lethal Bizzle

Reverend And The Makers
SOUND LIKE: parody of the Arctic Monkeys
GIMMICK: rumors re: whether they really wrote the Arctic Monkeys' songs
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Arctic Monkeys

The Enemy
SOUND LIKE: Libel case for Paul Weller alert!
GIMMICK: being sulky about having to get a job and/or student loan -sorry, revolutionary discourse, my mistake...
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: The Jam

The Horrors
SOUND LIKE: tuneless "goth" drone
GIMMICK: looking like Russell Brand
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: The Cure?

The Twang
SOUND LIKE: collection of dads in indie band
GIMMICK: being collection of dads in indie band
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: U2
(sorry dads!)

The Wombats
SOUND LIKE: Irreverent and jolly indie chugging
GIMMICK: marsupials and annoying Joy Division fans
MOST WANT TO SOUND LIKE: Blur?

Re: doin mah civic duty

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

bah, don't encourage me to check out Delays

Re: doin mah civic duty

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

They are good though, I have both of their albums. The first is dreamy seaside business, the second is power pop.