Some people don't like my review of The Tears show. Most of them haven't actually heard the band yet : in fact about 2,500 people have (the sum total of their live audience, thus far). Some of the comments people have made I've been unable to formulate a response to, as they seem to be obtuse and unrelated to what I'm going on about.

Beside which, music is, and always as been subjective. If there some formula of say "guitar x 2 + flange + vocals x echo / weird lyrics + good drummer = ace pop" everyone would be doing it, and music would be a scientifically produced bland formula. Music is about whatever works for you, and whatever makes you feel good. If you can't find something in it that doesn't make it good or bad, merely opinion. And that's my opinion. I didn't like The Tears. I wanted to, I've liked everything they've done prior to this, but it didn't work for me. Oh well.

Elsewhere some people have jumped upon my writing style, which is normally what happens when people don't like what I'm saying, but don't know how to disprove me. It's like saying "the acting is bad" in a film, when they merely dislike the film. ( "Phantom Menace", anyone?). There's only so much you can do with the source material.

Talking of which, I wasn't the only one who didn't like the gig. I know of at least 3 or 4 other people, some of whom who came from Sweden and Holland, who thought it wasn't very good. No smoke without fire, eh?

It always reminds me of when I was working as a journalist in Bimingham. The advert said wages were a unenviable 10k, but as the job progressed, it turned out they started putting lots of strings onto that figure. In the end I was earning about 5k, tied up with various algebraic strings and performance targets and other subjective bullshit that was largely a reason to stop paying me even a basic wage : every director thinks that paying someone half the amount to live for a year, than they pay other peopel to live on for a year. That's cuntish.

When I tried to get paid the amount they said they would, I was accused of "extortion". People, man. Sometime they're just plain odd. Even me. As one guy I know said "I hate the thought I'm working my nuts off and barely getting by whilst the director is planning his next Porsche."
- posted by Mark @ 11:58 am