Jamie T @ Leicester Why Not Go?

In an incredible follow of events, Jamie T has a date in Leicester, yes in Leicester. So, why I have chose not to go, well simple really. It's not a Jamie T organised gig for starters, its a 'club night' with the most horrific name 'Porked'. No there is nothing majorly wrong with 'club nights' but is just they seems so subjective, you know its organised by one person who thinks he knows everything. I'd happy organise a club night, a Five Pence club night when this site emulates the other bigger indie sites going on but it would be a free-for-all. It would be by ticket however aswell and all the money made would circulate as a non-profit organisation.

But it was on later investigation on this gig, that I found out the shocking truth of 'Porked 8', the support is infact 4 local bands, oo nice local bands, but on my discovery to finding out the local bands, I realised this is not going to be one of those rememberable nights where you seen 'the next big thing', Jamie T will probably do an acoustic set again because hes taken a booking and wants dosho, dosho, dosho. Cant blame the young whipper-snapper. But I realised the 'pay on the door' technique is somewhat doomed to fail, The Half-Time Orange's stage could prbably hold 300-500 at a big guess, now Jamie T could sell out a 3k Leicester gig easy, because people from Derby, Notts and Midlands would travel if at a proper venue not a pub. So it means people will be waiting from 6pm onwards outside Half Time Orange, on current weather outlook in the pissing rain.

But more research somewhat defined what I expected anyway, one of the local bands name with-held, I bumped in on this year's Summer Sundae, no it was not The Dirty Backbeats, who are so 'scenester' its quite unbelieveable, you need to be drink a Barcardi and Coke before you cant start a conversation with them. Well this band are no older than 17, their one aimed drive to ruin the Jamie T set at Summer Sundae was idiotic and plonkerish. Absolute twats. Loutish and idiots whose love for Jamie T made them look like a pack of buffoons. Some times it can be tolerate at a gig but an acoustic gig, no. If I went today, I would spend half and hour sitting watching them calling them 'twats' repeatly, heckling them until they cry with songs which born the same name as Infernal's chart-stopping From Pariis To Berlin, just that they replaced Paris with Luxembourg.

Then another band who appeared at SSW06', an infamous incident where a member of band was chased around the site by an army of security, this bloke's mission to manage to avoid security on a site no bigger than a 5-bedroom house's back garden was doomed to fail. Either way he looked an idiots.

So if there is two bands containing idiots, an another band with crap music and then one who are building up a reptuation for being good. Would I went to spend 1 and half waiting for doors, 2 hours waiting for Jamie T whilst surrounded by Topshop models. No I wouldnt want to go, to see a 30 minute set. I'll wait till I have a car and go somewhere in the Midlands where you feel you are amongst actual music fans. Not pissheads and scenesters.

I have no probelm with club nights and a 'scene' except when its so subjective and fashioned-orinated, I cant see an attraction. Take Madchester, there was an united force that of pills and the fashion was quite frankly stupid but it was clothers everyone could afford. Secondly although mogul Tony Wilson was an arrogant feck, he had no clue of what was to happen and he just lived his glory days.

I believe in a 'free for all' policy, united by a genre or type of music. A fashion may come connected with it as a legacy. Not the current ''I am wearing Topshop clothes, big sunglasses, so I must listen to The Kooks vibe', The greatest example of what I believe in his the 'How Does It Feel To Be Loved' club night in London, the rule there is 'no punk, no rock, no metal, no grunge, no contemporary indie haircut, no Lionel Blair, no Noel Edmonds'. Simple as one sound unites, regardless of how you look now.

Now if any one wants to set up a Baggy post-1992 night, give me a call.