Comments on: Today, I AM Indie!

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:57:03 +0000

Have you all been here yet? Pure joy all round. x

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:19:45 +0000

Oh true, mine is the other way around. I’d missed that – it looked vaguely similar I never even though about it.

By: falski

falski — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:16:44 +0000

That’s the home kit in the picture

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:04:58 +0000

What I can’t quite figure is how we look at something old-fashioned and think ‘ugh that’s dated’ and only a few year later can look at the exact same thing and think ‘hey, retro but waaay cool, man’. Although in normal English of course. Are our herd instincts that strong?

(Answer: yes, Matthew, they are.)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:17:17 +0000

Given the indie aesthetic, probably yes.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:08:24 +0000

“…a sloppier, more amateurish Carter”

I’m not sure if the erstwhile messrs. Jimbob and Fruitbat would take that as a compliment or not!

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:43:17 +0000

1) All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit is dedicated to you (+ one other) on the Christmas Request Show 2) I have purchased an away kit for the + one other above for Christmas & I fully expect it to be worn on social occasions as well as when he is working out in front of the Wednesday evening televised match 3) Converse were quite popular 'round these parts, i.e. the ankle-height All-Star baseball boot (black, natch, if you were 'goth', or red/yellow if you were 'indie' — I had a pair of red & a pair of black, for I was a 'Gindoth') 4) The Wonderstuff = marvelous, depsite the head-shaped, ego-sized compartment in Miles Hunt's arsehole. I remember the first time I ever heard them & it was a Glory Be! moment. They were the first indie band I ever discovered entirely on my own & before any of my circle of friends in the small town I shuffled about in; I cajoled them into traveling to Cardiff to go see them, Neds (never liked them, or PWEI — talentless chancers, the lot of them; akin to a sloppier, more amateurish Carter...) + some other nonsense (The Smithereens, I think) at the Univeristy & they were sold on impact. I had my Eight Legged Groove Machine t-shirt right up till 2002 when it disintegrated in the wash. *sigh* heady days...