Comment Posted By Chris N On 11th Mar, 13:28.

Re: Creem: Rock'n'Retro Hackshun!

Quite right retro=evil. It's a fuck of a lot harder to balance on the cutting edge than to fester around in the past.

Sack Trick (who I sometimes play in) supported the Damned a few years ago, and the audience was full of OLD punks, replendent with OLD jackets covered with patches of OLD bands, and it made us think that there could be NO MORE CONSERVATIVE an audience than the one which clung so tightly to the past (and then we got scared cos we believed we were about to get bottled off stage).

It would be great if there were a whole lot of bands reacting against PROPER shit like the impending war (like the 60's people reacted against Vietnam), but fact is retro bands worry a fuck of a lot more bothered about where they left their kohl pencil. Embrace the bullshit of the past, but not the ideals.