List me EVERYTHING indie

The way I see it you can go down many paths:twee, angst ridden, trendy post rock, kraut rock. I don't really know how to exemplify these. YOu could use some of that 8bit homage stuff that's been up recently, but this has been done before. However for a quick fix do a speccy style flyer.

Cartoon characters: cute big eyed manga boys and gurls. And the Powerpuff Girls. Films: probably that 60s shit with French chiXoRs, and Hal Hartley. JR Hartley. Not particularly indie, but put it one way, I'd probably go to an indie night if it featured JR Hartley on it somewhere. Also, trainers with white soles. They're indie. Cardigans however aren't particularly indie as too many of the post-rockists wear them. They're not indie. HMMMM. This is fun.

I shall buy a satchel tonight.

I have one pair of primary school style DMs which are very indie.

Ah, I just seem to be talking about shoes.

Vans = skatey also.

Am currently pondering how to incorporate abstract concepts.

Indie poster, I'd say go to the skanky penny sweet section of your sweetshop. Buy £5 worth and drop them on a scanner (liquorice allsorts work like a charm). Scan an A$ of this. Then select out of the pile something good, like a lolly or a gummy bear in a reasonable hue, scan alone, then enlarge to megasize and superimpose it on top the A4 image of the sweets. You now have a field for your info. Swipe the best font from the sweet packaging and list your info. Voila!

'Does this make me a post-rockist then?' he pondered whilst wearing his toasty warm zip-up cardy.

A picture of a girl with hairslides.

A still from Get Carter (being used to promote and indie night in Dublin as we speak).

Tom Ewing crucified. Or a picture of Tom Ewing holding up a bad record and smiling only with a red circle round the picture and a red line across it.

Some Black Panthers.

Oh, whatever.

However, it do not make you a post-rockist. It makes you a BIG GURL hoho.

Protest that something is 'post-rock' rather than indie. Ha! It's all indie, mate.

1. Sarah and Tom get v. drunk. 2. Flyer produced. 3. Bands erased. 4. Hefner dissed. 5. Moldy Peaches retaliatory dissed. 6. Tom dissed. 7. More drinking.

I didn't know it was eyeliner though. That's horrible. Are you some kind of Manics fan?

Nick is jealous because I am more indie than him and all he haf is Smiffs records and lots of BRIMSTONE.

I was merely going for an identikit image. This is, after all, a college project.

Sorry, this doesn't help at all.

"indie" images: rat fink, shag artwork, paul frank characters, iron crosses, sailor jerry tattoos, classic cheescake girlies.

I don't know what a SINGLE ONE of these things is. Perhaps I'm not as indie as my detractors claim.

Buy the new Uncut magazine and cut the picture of tompaulin out on page 118. Now there is a prime example of a fey wimpy retro indie pop band with obscure references to English literature - Richard Brautigan? - if I ever saw one - I bet the drippy cardigan wearing B & S crowd will be buying into Tompaulin's debut album The Town & the City - big time on Monday 5th November ;)

PS which one is Katie G in the picture - the brunette snogging and wearing a sixties style dress or the blonde posing for the camera and touching her own hair with other arm wrapped around a bloke's shoulder? [I reckon the blonde ?]

lol old ilx

IT'S THE SAME

I like how djmartian attempts to zing Tompaulin yet still does it in the style of a really inept streetteamer

Indie vs. Indy

Imagine there was an Indie 500
all listening to "angular guitars"
going really fast in a circle

Bad hair, cider, sticky floors, Red Stripe, ineffectual crushes on girls you'll never speak to, Adidas trainers, leather satchels, thick rimmed glasses, oversize Elastica tour T-shirts, Rough Trade, inky photocopied fanzines etc etc

-- jamesmichaelward, Thursday, November 1, 2001 1:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

this shit sounds pretty good to me

The Lex.

its not the same, mark. for one jess and ally dont talk like Lou1s J@gger anymore.

hahaha

Missionary.

Did he ever finish his poster? WHY NO POSTED POSTER???????

Maybe it was before the internets had grafics?

buffy.

INDEE

Nowadays: Puffball skirts; unkempt hair; zits; inability not to hug your friend and scream whenever "Mr Brightside" comes on; suddenly discovering the Arcade Fire three years too late; Kronenbourg 1664; all about Electro; lego hair; skinny jeans; cheap but expensive sunglasses.

this thread is nails across a chalkboard

Hey, hang on - what's indie again?

the word "satchel"

american indie summer 2007: stubble, thick moppy black hair (mediterranean style), small bodies, pasty skin, cut-off skinny jeans/skinny cords, plaid shirts, beards (tfw summer), retro 1967 summer of love bullshit.

2nd indie style: neon clothing, 1987 spike lee glasses, flipped-brim canvas hats, nike hi-tops and skinny jeans, awful tapered jeans, horrific graphic clothing

http://tweefashion.blogspot.com/

lok thred now plz.

That guy's comments are just genius.

if you have an old sweater you can pin a fabric art or quilt piece on to it to make it your own. this one has horses on it.

k.

if you are going to be eating corn outside a red tshirt would look really good, as this photo shows.

if you have dark hair a white hat can look really cute with your hair showing. of course other color hats would look good too but i will cover that in a future post

when talking on the phone a white tshirt looks really good with a colorful blanket in the background

s we can see in this photo, ice cream is pretty good too. you should always wear a scarf too even if its warm outside

i think the reason red hats look so good is just that theyre very cute. you look like you are from paris but not stuck up about it. if you add a white scarf its a nice touch to this outfit

when going to art galleries its important to look cute. some ideas are overalls or a dress

that blog is horrifying

do they make any money off it i wonder

Nowadays: Puffball skirts; unkempt hair; zits; inability not to hug your friend and scream whenever "Mr Brightside" comes on; suddenly discovering the Arcade Fire three years too late; Kronenbourg 1664; all about Electro; lego hair; skinny jeans; cheap but expensive sunglasses.

-- the next grozart, Friday, August 17, 2007 2:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, kronenbourg and electro: pretty much indie.

i am intrigued by these 16 year old skins kids i see in london. their clothes are so garish; this mix of emo glam and rave day-glo, they make me feel old in the same way this thread makes me feel young.

are those t-shirts with big slogans like 'make music not missiles' nu-rave?

haha 'skins kids' otm.

are those t-shirts with big slogans like 'make music not missiles' nu-rave?

They are but the other day I saw someone wearing shirt in that style which said MEGALOLZ in v. big type. I assumed it was a nu-rave product but I was informed it was designed by one of the Lostprophets

glam-emo. it all gets blurry as the kids get younger. these kids are listening to plain white tees, rihanna AND the klaxons. possibly. well they dress like they are. i know as well as carmody but that's not gonna stop me generalizing! it'd shit an ilxors brane up. sainsburys are doing the klaxons album for £3 at the moment. i was tempted, but i got an expensive toothbrush instead.

klaxons v plaquesons FITE!

it's one of these:

http://www.theessentials.com/images/us/local/products/detail/7088_dt.jpg

http://www.apteka-barbara.pl/images/oralb-pulsar.JPG

Britain being sold off to the Poles pound by pound

Y know what would get serious broadsheet words? A Twang / Enemy style shitty lad rock band made up of Polish imigrants.

What about RedFox5?

Is that the dodgy Ukranian strippers thing?

Ohmigod, that blog makes me wanna vomit. That said, if it were DDB Fashion and pictures of boys with greasy hair and leather jackets and Spacemen 3 shirts, I'd be all over it.

However, note to DDBs: Beards are officially over. It's all about droopy bandito mustaches now.

Yeah

xp

that's not what i mean. at all.

Just sayin'

Ohmigod, that blog makes me wanna vomit.

funny, i had the complete opposite reaction! (if you see what i mean)

yeah, Chuck, I bet you would have sex with all the indie gurlz... ;-)

I just hate them all coz they're that wibbling, pidgeon-toed kind of indie cuuuuet that I can never be.

that blog has kind of ruined my day.