Podcasting: for Marillion fans only?
Some completely stupid drivel from a tiresomely hipper-than-now New Statesman scribbler called Rachel Cooke.
Podcasting is for geeks — created by geeks, listened to by geeks. Think about it. Don’t you ever wonder why you no longer see anyone wearing a Marillion T-shirt? I’d bet good money that the reason for this is that the owners of said T-shirts are all too busy at home, messing around with their podcast software.
Doesn’t she know that Marillion T shirts are for wearing when going to model railway exhibitions?
I find something vaguely fascist about the Bruschetta-eating literati’s hatred of ‘geeks’. They seem to feel threatened by the very existance of people that don’t conform to their narrow definition of ‘cool’. How dare we listen to music which has some depth and complexity rather than the latest three-chord style-over-substance flavour of the month? How dare we read science fiction rather than pretending to like dull novels in which nothing happens but are deeply symbolic of man’s struggle against his socio-polical environment?
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Why not have the best of both worlds? A dull science-fiction novel which is deeply symbolic of man’s struggle against his socio-polical environment!
Wait, that was “Snow Crash”. Never mind.
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Well, I wear Marillion T-shirts to work…
… and ‘Snow Crash’ is amongst my favourite books, as it happens.
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Serdar, I think you mistyped “God Emperor of Dune”
I’ve worn Marillion T-shirts to work, and find colleagues take the piss. But when I wear model railway club T-shirts to gigs, even members of the band take the piss..
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:11 pm
You might be interested to note that at a wedding at the weekend I was talking to see someone, working in the music industry, who said he was getting bored by the three chord bands he’d been listening too - the Killers, Artic Monkeys etc - and was now listening to Muse, Zep and Eloy!!!!!
October 25th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Heaven forfend — what would she make of us hobos across the pond and our undying loyalty to a rising band that never plays the same show twice?
October 25th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
I doubt she’s even aware of the existance of such fans or bands.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Hello Tim. I’ve tracked you down!
10 years ago one was labeled a geek for having a 25k modem and an email address, but now broadband and email are about as mainstream as it gets. All the boy bands rely on the internet to allow their fans to download from iTunes, and most up and coming bands of bright young things will have blogs and MySpace accounts. So the geek has inherited the earth, sort of, and mindless hacks like Rachel Cooke manage to demonstrate their obliviousness to the history of the internet revolution rather clearly.
By the way. I have no idea what 7 * 8 is. Sorry.
March 18th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I wish I could find a decent retro Marillion t-shirt to wear to work!