Indie Rock vs Hardcore Punk

These two people are responsible for changing my weekends of late (I've been seeing bands every week!):


It's been very interesting as each of them take me into their different music worlds and try to explain those foreign worlds to me- the people, the music, the scene. It's amazing to learn that there's a whole subculture to these different scenes. Monica has been introducing me to indie rock (some dress sort of like fashionable homeless people) and Kevin has been introducing me to hardcore punk (and trying to explain to me the differences between death metal/life metal/screamo/emo/soft punk etc etc). Apparently it's cool to dance like you're having an epilectic fit to indie rock and to go into the mosh pit circle at a hardcore concert, you need to know how to do this really energetic dance move and have enough energy to thrash around the circle, doing cartwheels in the air without hands and other turbulent moves. I've learnt that indie rock kids appear deep but aren't deep if you talk to them but that's because they're highly insecure of themselves. Oh- and they think they have superior taste in music and hate radio music unless its more than 2 years old. Read more here.

It's exciting exploring these different scenes but I'm missing dance music! But Chris/Hotness2 will be back in a week so we can dance again! Woohoo! (Parklife tickets go on sale next week!)

Indie rock band vs. Screamo hardcore punk

What has happened to Sublime?

I had a great night on Friday where Monica and I firstly went to Ritchie and Pansy's launch of their new clothing line at their store in Darlinghurst (where there was a fashionable, streetwear hip hop crowd which Mon found fascinating... more subcultures) and then went to Home nightclub because Mon's friend Michaella (FBI 94.5FM radio host... I LOVE her voice!) invited Mon to play with her. I was so proud of Mon- her first gig! (Mon is a high school friend). It was really strange because Subbies has always been known for trance music but Michaella was asked to play indie rock whilst alternating with a screamo hardcore band. I couldnt really imagine the glowstick-waving Pee Wee Ferris trance kids dancing to this type of music. That's why I found myself to be the only person on the dance floor dancing to their indie rock/electro music but it was heaps of fun (especially with the free drinks!). I think Home, being the biggest club in the Southern hemisphere, is trying to copy what's happening overseas with the whole band thing getting bigger but it was too much of a clash that night with trance!

Punk kids don't think I'm TOO strange

I feel out of place when I go to hardcore concerts as I'm a fake punk chick underneath all my black clothes. It was an all ages event yesterday and I befriended an 18 year old punk chick who didn't run away from me when I confided that I was a foreigner to the scene. She and everyone else were actually really nice people and I was touched when I was invited to see another band next week with them. Although they look scary with their stretched earrings in their ears, purple hair, tattoos and black eyeliner, they're actually really nice people (even nicer than people in the dance music scene). I think I need a bit of a break from hardcore but it was nice being accepted by people that I thought would never think I'm punkish enough to hang with them!

Myspace

I was told to sign up to Myspace one day because apparently 'everyone' is on it but apparently not my friends! One commonality that I found with both the indie and punk scene is that they use Myspace to connect with each other and their pages are all music orientated. I stood there baffled when punk kids asked who broke my Myspace comment virginity and told me how I could change it. Anyways, I'm a loser on myspace as I've only got 7 friends and my page is blank and boring. http://www.myspace.com/flyawayfunkyfairy if you want to be my friend so I can finally fill up my friend box. I have given up but there is always hope.