You clearly have no idea what is down with the kids these days. Its certainly not the Stranglers, Thin Lizzy or the Stereo MC’s!
Really? Then how come I regularly see teenagers wearing Thin Lizzy, Ramones and Led Zeppelin tee shirts?
Do you go to see live bands? The likes of The Smoke Fairies, The Joy Formidable, Cerys Matthews, Howling Bells, attract loads of teenagers, as well as people like me, in their 50’s, who still find more quality music around every day than they can afford to buy. So far recently I’ve got Mechanical Bride’s new album, new album and EP by Gemma Hayes, and new albums by The Dears, Wye Oak, Cerys Matthews, Kate Bush, The Submarines, Foo Fighters, Anna Calvi, Emmylou Harris, and there’s still Likki Li’s album, and Emmy The Great, Paul Simon and The Pierces albums to get. I’d bet that there would be very significant numbers of audience members under twenty at most of those gigs.
I’m sure that lots of teens and early twenties will be surrounding me in Hyde Park on the 30th for The Vaccines, Beirut, Mumford and Son and Arcade Fire. Just because some middle age bloke at the BBC thinks that Radio One is representative of the only music teenagers listen to doesn’t make it a fact; my experience at actual gigs proves that.
