Do The Blackout 1: ‘Landfill Indie’
Do The Blackout is GeenCommentaars onregelmatig verschijnende zondagse muziekcolumn. De naam komt van een nummer van de band Speedball Baby.
Lowlands komt eraan. Het programma kan echter weinig enthousiasme opwekken. Net als de programmering van 3FM lijdt Lowlands anno 2008 onder een overdosis aan brave indierock. The Kooks, The Pigeon Detectives, The Wombats, The Fratellis én Editors: de bond van slapeloosheidlijders heeft alvast en masse kaartjes aangeschaft. The Independent schreef er onlangs nog dit over:
Festival season is in full swing now. Across the land, stages are being raised in city parks, in country farms and on ancient estates for what promises to be Britain’s biggest ever summer of music. But if they want to book enough acts to justify the inflated ticket prices in these harsh economic times, once-eager festival organisers have a struggle on their hands. How will they fill that gaping hole on Sunday afternoon? Who’s going to warm up the crowd for The Ting Tings? Luckily the current UK music scene has just the thing. Someone has even compounded a helpful term to use when you call the record companies in a line-up emergency; this uninspiring, guitar-gelled Polyfilla – of which The Fratellis are a fine example – is now known by some as ‘landfill indie’.