When I was younger, I heard of the genre ‘indie’. I didn’t really know what it was, I vaguly knew it was short for ‘independent’, and while I’d not actually heard any of this ‘independent’ music, I’d seen the artists and for some unremembered reason, I decided I didn’t like them, their music or the way they dressed. I decided for some arbitrary reason that the Indie style was Bad.

And then I started listening to britpop, bands like Travis, Oasis, The Verve, Blur and Coldplay, and somehow that led me to bands like The Killers, The Cranberries and James and I decided I quite liked what they played. The style was in most cases subtly different from the mainstream and wildly different from my main staples of rock, folk and gothic.

So it came as a big supprise to me when wandering around LastFM looking at the tags of these artists that a lot of them said ‘indie’ next to them. Maybe I’ve grown musically, maybe I’ve just matured in my attitude to life, but I still find it faciating that I completly unknowingly came to like indie music through my own terms, and it still supprises me sometimes when I find something I like and it turns out to be indie.

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