"a different and in many ways more exciting tale"

Apologies for the HTML lunacy.

it might just be the hangover talking (ho ho), but which tale? the early post-rock bands (seefeel, di, et al?) or the proto-idm'ers or ardkore or what?

I was thinking of the latter (& perhaps casting a bit wider net) . . . however, if there's something new to be said on the former, I'm all ears. Er, eyes.

OH NO YOU LINKED TO THAT AWFUL THING!

I probably meant just "the story of dance music", you know? My history of UK alternative is so full of holes that I'm surely not the person to tell it anyway.

That's honest. How old were you when you wrote it?

He was only 12 (it was a piece of futurology and so holes are forgivable).

The story of it was -

I was a regular contributor to alt.music.alternative in about 1997 - an American guy said, look, I'm new to British indie music and I don't know anything about it, can anyone help. And my reply turned out into this huge bluffers-guide style history outlining the basic trends as I saw them. Then I sorted out some of the factual errors and shoved in a new final paragraph because I needed stuff ready to publish when I started Freaky Trigger - it was one of the first five or six things I ever put on the site.

I think as a kind of absolute beginners intro it's probably not too bad. But it's kind of like the stories you always hear about science students who do school exams and then get told on the first day of their new course, "Well, everything you've been told is bollocks."

Apologies for the HTML lunacy.
No apology needed. It made it easier to click on the link.

hey tom are you ever gonna put mr. daddino's "rock machine" piece back up on ft? (and/or badger him to write about the second side?)

As someone completely removed from that place/era/etc, has anybody been bothered to tell this tale? (Or at least try and give a broad-but-not-too-sweeping-overview, etc).

I'd suggest Simon Reynolds has a lot to say on that topic.