A new generation of rock?
Two bands who supported Sigur Rós at A Perfect Day Festival in Verona were prime examples of Rock and Roll as :
(a) an outmoded genre that survives only as a parody of itself.
(b) a vibrant musical force which still has the power to excite and inspire.
In the (a) corner were dEUS, a Belgian Indie band who were almost big in the 1990s and who are still plugging away trying to sound edgy by mixing in some rap and disco into the standard R’n’R formula.
On stage there is plenty of what The Fall’s Mark E Smith witheringly labelled as “false histrionics” and cries of “let’s do this”. Continue reading
