adenning wrote:
I'm quite offended by those saying I can't write, especially from people who more than likely haven't looked at my site for five years or so. Why still hold grudges? I didn't kill anybody, i just came to a close knit scene pretty late and immediately made an impact. Who was the guy who said they go to me for faggy british music? Well yeah, that's me. I found a niche!

I never was great at grammar, but sod that. I looked to Paul Williams, founder of Crawdaddy. Really clever guy, great enthusiastic writer, huge beach boys fan. He got at the fun in music. He demonstrated that he loved it. Sometimes, I might write a review, mis-spell a word, do dodgy grammar. Somebody writes in to say, 'great review, you got me into this band.

Music isn't science and reviewing it definitely isn't a way to make yourself famous or to get into the record industry. My entire site started as a bit of fun, i wanted to say how much i loved the music of the beach boys. yeah, i made an arse of myself on music babble, yet - who hasn't? By the way, somebody from Robbie Williams PR company a few years back sent me a nasty threat! Without my site, i couldn't have annoyed Robbie Williams. I've done my job.


Umm, the 'faggy british music' guy was me, Adrian. Sorry about that, I didn't mean for it to come off as backhandedly complimenting, I mean, I do love 'faggy british music' (by which I mostly mean 80's-90's indie/post-punk) myself, Felt, Stone Roses, the Fall, Pulp, Boo Radleys, etc. a lot of which I learned about from you. I guess it's a really broad (just now I notice your Maiden reviews) generalization that meant to say that I thought of you as specializing in that area, in the way Prindle 'specializes' in noisy indie/punk stuff and Starostin 'specializes' in classic rock stuff. Obviously just a big generalization, but still...yeah. If it counts, I must say I've always liked your journal-like writing style, it really adds a personal touch to the proceedings.

PS: I don't know if you've done Soft Boys/Robyn Hitchcock or the Chameleons, if you haven't, it'd be befitting of my broad, generalized view of your site to house them. Yeah.