Comments on: What Is The New Rock’N’Roll? https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Mark G https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-945573 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:35:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-945573 Started up in small clubs, playing to eager patrons and not to people that were a bit ‘scared’ of unfamiliar territory.

Then got some visibility. And then got some disapproval due to ‘the nice people’ preferring what they were used to. The familiar. The nice.

Eventually, got pretty big and exciting at the same time.

At which point, it seemed a good ‘career’ to go into.

Now, it’s all safe and harmless. Apart from those perpetrators that can cause ‘offence’ with things taken out of context, but the general feeling is that they only do it for ‘attention’. And they are tolerated greatly, because on the whole it is a safe and marketable commodity.

Right, let’s check out those options again…

(Maps , World Sheep Dog Trials, Knitting, Theosophy, Comedy, Economics , British Poetry , Transport, Entrepreneurialism)

Oh, and we’re only dealing in Theosophy where only Showbiz loses. I guess.

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By: will https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-944298 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:45:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-944298 Judging by the way it’s colonised Saturday morning TV, I’d say cookery.

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By: Ed https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-944006 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:34:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-944006 The new Elvis Costello, they mean.

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By: El boludo https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943958 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:03:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943958 I was just in London and there are posters all around the Underground advertising a Lee Evans DVD that say “if comedy is the new rock’n’roll, meet the new Elvis”, which seems like an odd thing to say about Lee Evans in 2011.

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By: Cumbrian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943857 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943857 I am from Cumbria. Naturally my choice had to be the World Sheep Dog Trials. Finally a sport where we could generate a world champion from the Lake District.

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By: Rory https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943849 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:14:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943849 Because comedy is of course the new rock ‘n’ roll, my vote is for “World Sheep Dog Trials”.

It could have been worse. My Google results show, one place above World Sheep Dog Trials [dramatic pause]: HR blogging.

sukrat @1: the 2 Unlimited mashup beckons.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943840 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:53:28 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943840 hic sunt boney maronies

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By: karen d tregaskin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943838 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:51:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943838 I would say archeology or geology (but I would) so I’m going for maps, as it’s closest. But maps are the old rock’n’roll, surely?

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943836 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:49:43 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943836 fred_durst.jpg

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943835 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:48:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943835 dubstep is the new comedy

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By: weej https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943830 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:40:36 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943830 Where’s the ‘DUBSTEP’ button?

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943829 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:39:32 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943829 http://www.lovetea.co.uk/2011/04/28/tea-the-new-rock-n-roll/

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943828 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:37:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943828 http://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/telly-talk/2011/11/15/food-is-the-new-rock-and-roll-bring-it-on/

^^^published while i was in shropshire!

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By: Ewan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943823 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:26:14 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943823 I get this article at #11, closely followed by “writing about beer”…

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943818 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:15:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943818 #3 Clearly my filter bubble is awesome. Well done Google.

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By: Stevie T https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943817 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:13:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943817 The rise and fall of the snowclone –
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+new+rock+and+roll&year_start=1950&year_end=2011&corpus=0&smoothing=3
– suggests that people first started looking for the new rock and roll in 1965! And kind of stopped in 2001…

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By: Unlogged Mog https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943810 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:07:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943810 For the potentially befuddled, that FENTON reference-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU
(ALSO: FUNNIEST EVAR)

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943809 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:06:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943809 I get a completely different list when I google it, although THEOSOPHY is still there…

my front page is:

Literature
Theosophy
Food
This Article!
Business
Cycling

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By: facebook user https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943794 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:45:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943794 there’s a poster somewhere on the tube about a comedian saying comedy is the new rock and roll so maybe its still that i don’t know i wish i didn’t have to look at tube posters i guess i could close my eyes

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/11/what-is-the-new-rocknroll/comment-page-1#comment-943792 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:42:20 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=22274#comment-943792 clue to my vote: “FENTON! FENTON! J*s*s Chr*st! FENTON!”

(named for Shane Fenton btw)

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