Feed Bäck

MySpace is a funny place. As far as I can make out, it seems to be populated by the following:

1. Spammers
2. Bands/film makers/porn stars who want to raise their profile
3. People who want to show off how many friends they have
4. Normal people
5. (insert your own joke about the Murdoch empire here)
   

Anyway, it's quite good fun, as long as you realise all of the above. I've found a lot of fantastic music on there, as well as a lot of rubbish (I should probably state at this point that if you're a friend, the chances are it's because we like you - we don't just accept anyone you know).

We've had some nice comments over the last couple of years, and I'd like to take this opportunity to respond to some of these here...

• I know my vocals aren't all that great. But I think they're generally good enough to show how the song should sound, and that's really all that matters at the moment.
• In no particular order, I believe the following are to blame for my vocal style: Jon Marsh; my Granddad; and maybe also Andy Bell to a lesser degree (because I couldn't possibly sing that high). I don't think Edwyn Collins was an intentional influence, but he's pretty good too.
  
• I don't think either of us can understand the recent popularity of Here We Stand. We both like it, but neither of us had ever thought of it as a highlight. This just goes to show what we know.
• We don't (currently) play live because (1) we live about 3-4 hours away from each other; (2) we see one another about once every 2 months; (3) we don't think we'd be very good; (4) I can't sing very well (see above); and (5) we don't like one another very much.
• We would like to do something with a UK electro-clash attitude, but we can't, mainly because we don't know what it is.
  

Something I have great problems with are the labels people insist on putting on things. This is particularly evident on MySpace, where you have to give yourself a category. We went for 'electronica'; 'pop' and 'electro', but we've been strongly ticked off for 'electronica', which is probably not unfair. I'm quite tempted to change them to 'Christian rap'; 'concrete' and 'melodramatic popular song', the trouble then being that nobody would be able to find us. Maybe this would do the world of MySpace a great service.

If anyone can define any of the following for me, I would be grateful: 'zouk'; 'tropical'; 'shoegaze' and 'acousmatic'. I also come across 'IDM' a lot in electro circles, but I have absolutely no idea what that is either.

The next single will be Consequences, with some extra b-sides and stuff, and will hopefully be finished in the next couple of weeks. I'll change the tracks on MySpace when that happens.