Been watching Punk
Britannia over the last few weeks and enjoying an interesting look
back at one of the most defining periods in British musical cultural
history even though the slagging off of my love of Prog and
Rock,”Dinosaurs”, did not go down well but it did make me think
that maybe we need a Punk revolution again.
Many of those of a
certain age who saw the Jubilee concert will I guess have been
saddened by the fayre that was put before us,putting aside the
excellent Tom Jones the other oldies,Cliff,Elton & Macca proved
little more than the fact that they are well past their sell by date
and really need to admit defeat and hand over the mantle to a new
generation.
But who are the new
generation where are the international mega stars in waiting the
Who,Stones,Queen etc who will influence the world of music in the
next 20 years,Punk gave us the Pistols,Clash,The Jam and The Dammed
all of whom were hugely influential in the years that followed Punk
but sadly that type of band no longer appears to be around in the
music world.
Now I appreciate that
with the Internet and Digital TV mean that we do not see much of the
interesting music entertaining many of today's younger music lovers
but something needs to be done to get something half decent and
potentially influential onto the mainstream in place of the dross
that abounds on The Voice,X factor etc etc.
Is it possible or are
we doomed to inhabit Simon Cowell world for the rest of our lives,I
can only hope that out there somewhere is a new Johnny Rotten,Joe
Strummer or Paul Weller that can put a bomb under the music world so
that as I sit in the old folks home in years to come I dont have to
watch Lord Cowell present X factor series 35 without the ability to
hold a knife and slash my wrists
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