Comments on: Hadouken – Live, Carling Academy Newcastle, Saturday 2nd June, 2007

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:16:03 +0000

Well I am an indie kid and ‘we’ most certainly all look the same as well. I think probably because the look of the Hadouken lot was so striking it was odd to see it all look so similar as well.

And Marcy, that sounds like some sort of bovine Nuremberg Rally. You’re scaring me!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:26:59 +0000

I saw them at ULU in london on friday.
Yes, everyone (including me) was dressed similar, but I disagree with you saying they’re all the same. People wearing skinny jeans yes, althought there were people wearing shorts, leggings, this really weird skirt that looked like a bowl, and what first appeared to be a girl in silver (silver?) leggings she explained she’d actually just spray-painted her legs.

But why not? it’s fashion and it’s stupid but it’s fun and if it wasnt nobody would bother with it. It’s probably just a sign of the times that there’s so many chain stores that everything we buy can also be bought in every city in the country, and as a result we all look the same anyway, not that this awful ‘nu-rave scene herding our instincts and insecurity.

By: mjrc

mjrc — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:13:15 +0000

this is only tangentially related to your post, but once, many mooooooons ago, i was at a james taylor concert. it was at an outdoor place, and to get to the parking lot, everyone had to file across one narrow bridge. well, my friend and i were quite buzzed at the time, and it occurred to us that we were being herded like a bunch of cattle, so we started to moo like cows. well, we got the whole crowd mooing along with us. it was really something. we felt rather powerful for having got so many people to do the same thing at the same time. : )

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:45:17 +0000

Well it did look like they’d all been roped in to be part of a music video or something. It was quite unnerving actually. Sort of like The Birds, but with teenagers.

By: hannah

hannah — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:13:06 +0000

I completely agree, it seems to be like that with many more bands than just nu-rave ones though. Recently I saw The Horrors live and it was only me and my friend that didn’t look like they were dressed for a Horrors tribute band. If any of them had got on stage and started screaming randomly at the audience I don’t think any of us would have known the difference.