Comments on: Foxy You Came Back

By: nanette

nanette — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:56:52 +0000

I know the whole Indieshite story, including who was behind it. Those were the days.

I’m sad that my old URL now links to a porn search engine, though. I just couldn’t justify continuing to pay for the domain space when I hadn’t used it in years!

nanette (formerly of amplified to rock)

By: Heralding a flurry of deleted MySpace & Facebook accounts | orbis quintus

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:10:15 +0000

[...] bring the ruckus, Idolator. After that Freaky Trigger post the other day that mentioned in passing the Indieshite furor, back in that distant Golden Age, i have a craving for some of that flavor of [...]

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:39:36 +0000

TWAS was without question the number one blog influence on my own writing when I started CoM - there were other, potentially greater influences at work but in music blog terms TWAS was my main model - so I’m inclined to be very protective towards what Glenn did.

His music tastes don’t really overlap with mine very much but I respect him for writing about the music he loves so passionately and honestly. I wish I could believe and agree with what he says about, say, Marillion or IQ, but then it’s not just about the music; I look for a writer’s soul and heart first and then work outwards (or inwards) from there. It was the story that hooked me and also the fact that he clearly approached every entry as though he were writing as a professional, even if he was equally clear that he didn’t want to write about music for a living (as if most people could).

Each entry was like an encrypted tablet of prayer and I felt that very deeply. It reassured me that I wasn’t bonkers myself for wanting to do something similar.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:15:41 +0000

Well actually other people might FEEL the moral connection but they sidestep it in their actual writing.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:15:04 +0000

Nah. As the write up suggests, I thought the degree of intimacy and personal/musical mix he did occasionally made him seem deranged. I was more easily shocked in those days. It’s been years since I read any of his stuff - something that stuck out like a sore thumb then and possibly now is the way he links music and living a good life/doing good: he felt a moral connection with music in a way that nobody else around except maybe Robin C does. (And Robin’s conception of morality is rooted in the cultural and political in a way that Glenn’s wasnt).

He was also - like the people in Tangents - an massive idealist - which is something most music writers would claim to be but very few are. FT has always had a more pragmatic outlook and admitted it.

I still think he has mostly rotten tastes in music but I think that of most writers I like sometimes (and vice versa I would hope!). Liking the same music as us isn’t hugely important.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:00:05 +0000

Presumably “bonkers” was taken as being synonymous with “doesn’t like the same music as us” as tends to be the case.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:44:27 +0000

“Sometimes I thought he was bonkers” should be taken as an honest statement of how this site’s writers approached TWAS, rather than as a statement about Glenn’s bonkers-ness or otherwise.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:42:01 +0000

Glenn is the best writer who has ever blogged about music. I don’t approve of his being referred to as possibly “bonkers.”

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:08:58 +0000

Cool post, Tom, I’d noticed a few weeks ago you were ‘back’. I’m still Dutch, still blogging and am site coordinator of the web2.0-ish tvguide Zie.nl

Some of the links you mention here I hadn’t been to in years. Nice to be reminded of them.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:09:19 +0000

Although not stepping onto the Blogtrain until Oct 2001, I know a few of this people IRL.

Darren @ linkmachinego does indeed win the award for Least Changed Weblog Ever.

Prolific.org is indeed Dutch. Caroline became eachman.com for a while, before returning to prolific.org earlier this year. She also administers U2log, Whedonesque and Gavin Friday’s site.

notsosoft.com is now meish.org, with all the old archives still available. Meg now works at Guardian Unlimited, and is very much involved with the whole Web 2.0/social software scene.

Wherever You Are is now An Unreliable Witness, with some of the old archives still available, but a very different approach… it’s sort of Kafka-esque.