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Get all the way in.

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Still no Norman Brannon with them (he's quite clear he doesn't want to be involved any more, fair enough) but any opportunity to see what for me is the best emo band of the 90s always has to be taken.

Cannot wait.

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2 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

There's already been one American Football thread created today??

Waheeeeeeeey. Good arrows. I'd like to think that was never meant...eh??? NEVER MEANT??? 

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Reckon a couple of those venues to get upgraded. Manchester Academy 2 is around 900 capacity, surely there’s more demand for them than that.

Trying to branch out a bit more this year and listen a bunch of new acts, and last week came across Night of the Vampire. They’ve just put out their debut album, ‘The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade’ and I absolutely love it

 

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16 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Still no Norman Brannon with them (he's quite clear he doesn't want to be involved any more, fair enough) but any opportunity to see what for me is the best emo band of the 90s always has to be taken.

Cannot wait.

I mean I suppose you can say this now that Mineral have hung up the boots.

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14 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Reckon a couple of those venues to get upgraded. Manchester Academy 2 is around 900 capacity, surely there’s more demand for them than that.

Trying to branch out a bit more this year and listen a bunch of new acts, and last week came across Night of the Vampire. They’ve just put out their debut album, ‘The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade’ and I absolutely love it

 

I've been following these for a while, it's a really good album. 

The particular sub-genre ("magick metal") has some really good and interesting bands, the downside being that the vast majority of them are either Nazis or edgelords using the imagery. A lot of it comes from Black Magick SS being the first band to do the style and most others copying them but yeah, leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth.

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20 minutes ago, deathrey said:

Was Emo really a thing in the 90s? I feel like it was more of a millennium thing

*Pushes up glasses* 

The 00's era of what's mainly known as emo shares very little with the actual genre of music that came out of the hardcore scene. "Real Emo" and it's subgenres like Emoviolence and Screamo came about in the 90's as a less macho answer to the Hardcore scene but still carries it's heaviness in many aspects.

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19 minutes ago, deathrey said:

Was Emo really a thing in the 90s? I feel like it was more of a millennium thing

Absolutely, but depends on what you class as emo really, which is in itself a huge (often boring) debate. 

The term definitely gained more mainstream traction in the early 00s though. This at the time was hugely divisive (I loved it obviously) and is considered peak 'emo awareness' or whatever. 

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It's interesting that there's a bit of a revival of both eras going on right now, especially the fashion of the later stuff hitting the mainstream again.

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2 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

It's interesting that there's a bit of a revival of both eras going on right now, especially the fashion of the later stuff hitting the mainstream again.

I was in Birmingham over the weekend and seeing a group of young lads/lasses over Pigeon Park in studded belts, long fringes and MCR t-shirts genuinely made me feel like I'd walked into 2006. Bought a massive smile to my face.

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I have to be honest, I'm loving Emo fashion and make up coming back. I still have some 'classic' pieces. I wonder if I could sell them on Vinted? On a slight aside, someone I know had a Slipknot hoodie from the late 90s and gave it away to a charity shop in the 2010s. Flash forward to now and she really missed it so thought she would look for one online and found they now sell for silly amounts of money.

I know they are practically pop but came out of the emo scene, I would like to say how much I love Paramore and Hayley Williams.

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1 minute ago, deathrey said:

On a slight aside, someone I know had a Slipknot hoodie from the late 90s and gave it away to a charity shop in the 2010s. Flash forward to now and she really missed it so thought she would look for one online and found they now sell for silly amounts of money.

The windbreaker is the one. They sell for insane amounts. AJ Soprano had a sweet one.

2 minutes ago, deathrey said:

I would like to say how much I love Paramore and Hayley Williams.

Join the bloody queue!!!

It is quite funny how cyclical fashion is. My kids wear baggy jeans and joggers just like me and their Mum did 25 years ago. The more interesting thing is I think, that it has less to do with the music or scene or whatever, I think. My youngest will wear really baggy jeans with her Nike TNs for example. She's creating a new genre!

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