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?

Posted by TimHall at October 22, 2006 05:22 PM

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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.

Posted by: Serdar on October 23, 2006 04:00 PM

Well, I wear Marillion T-shirts to work...

... and 'Snow Crash' is amongst my favourite books, as it happens.

Posted by: NRT on October 23, 2006 05:30 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..

Posted by: Tim Hall on October 23, 2006 06:04 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!!!!!

Posted by: Chris on October 23, 2006 08:11 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? :)

Posted by: Scott on October 25, 2006 05:37 PM

I doubt she's even aware of the existance of such fans or bands.

Posted by: Tim Hall on October 25, 2006 06:34 PM


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