April 2012
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Idlewild
Lots and lots of the songs mentioned in today’s post are included in the rolling Youth Groups Spotify playlist. Subscribe to that, if you’d like!
A wall of distortion. Pure noise. Clattering drums. A screamed “1-2-3-4!” and then some nonsense about culture. Then some semblance of melody. The repeated refrain “A song is a beautiful lie”. Then the same again....
No update this week
Due to my computer being uncooperative; the Florida Film Festival; and a visit from my sister, there’s no new update in Youth Groups this week. Sorry, everyone.
To make it up, here’s the video for Manic Street Preachers’ breakthrough single ‘A Design For Life’, which was released sixteen years ago this week. I could write a book about this song and what it means to...
Symposium
Here’s our first ever guest post on Youth Groups, written by my pal and new dad John Hart. (He’s a new dad. Not MY new dad. My existing dad remains my dad.) You may remember John from the Six by Seven post and our attempt to interview Chris Olley. John and I went to high school together, and he was one of my regular writers at the Brain Farm. You can follow him on Twitter...
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Bonus: Andrew W.K.
Here’s an unprecedented Saturday update here in Youth Groups. Last night, I saw Mr. W.K. bring his “I Get Wet” 10th anniversary tour through Orlando. Now, I’m not much a fan of his - I enjoy ‘Party Hard’ and ‘She is Beautiful’ but couldn’t name any other songs - but I had some free tickets, a buddy who’s a big fan, and I figured...
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Embrace
When people ask me what my first concert was, I answer with “Pulp, Wembley Arena, March 1996”. I’m lucky that I saw that cool of a show at thirteen. It could have been New Kids on the Block or something. But that was one where a friend’s mum drove us to the gig and sat through it with us. For the next year and a half, there were a handful more like that, where someone’s dad would chaperone us,...
