The History Of Indie Rock Music In The UK
Indie rock may be (loosely) defined as a melodic or punk genre guitar-based of rock music, along with a indicates of producing that music, that originated within the United kingdom within the late 1970s and early 1980s as an option to the mainstream music from the time. The indie genre, it might be claimed, was primarily inspired by the Sex Pistols and the punk rock movement within the UK, which led to a much more DIY approach to music and inspired young individuals to form bands. For instance, on 4 June 1976 within the Lesser Totally free Trade Hall in Manchester - in a smaller room above the main hall, the Sex Pistols played a gig that's widely believed to have been the catalyst to the punk rock movement, New Wave, and the subsequent indie movement.
Many of the musicians who attended the either of these two well-known gigs by the Sex Pistols (as they returned to play an additional date) went on to form a few of the essential and critically acclaimed bands from the era. Individuals who are believed to have attended these gigs consist of The Smith's front man Morrissey , Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, members of Joy Division /New Order (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook), members from the Buzzcocks (Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle), and The Fall's Mark E Smith.
Within the United kingdom, independent DIY record labels were began, like Factory Records and Rough Trade . These labels released music by artists (on a a lot smaller promotional budget) who perhaps the major labels weren't too interested to begin with - till they realised that there was really a large market for the style of music. Nevertheless, 'indie labels' gave a band much more credibility ('indie cred') than if they went with an unfashionable big and money-led label.
Some definitive British indie bands from the late 1970s and 1980s were The Smiths, The Specials, The Stone Roses, The Cure, Pleased Mondays, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Orange Juice, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, whose 'classic' music throughout this time directly influenced 1990s option genres such as shoegazing and also Britpop - which ultimately went on to blur the line in between independent and significant labels.Within the mid-1990s, led by Oasis and Blur, a list of Britpop indie bands dominated the singles and album charts within the UK. Much more conventional 'pop acts' were frequently beaten in sales by much more guitar based indie acts. The Britpop genre included artists such as Pulp, Supergrass, The Verve, and Radiohead. This trend has continued into the present day, with bands such as Artic Monkeys, The Strokes, The Libertines, Klaxons etc, are still able to chart within the upper reaches of sales charts.
Nevertheless, numerous so-called are on significant labels (or are on indie labels which are owned by significant labels). These days, 'indie music' is really a term utilized as genre term like 'Hip Hop' or 'Dance' and the genre is still covered by significant magazines, music journalists and music web sites such as the NME, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine, Pitchfolk, and Drowned In Sound. But whilst the term has perhaps lost it's initial independent meaning, the name remains as a continuous reminder from the DIY techniques and spirit that was carried out by bands and labels during the 1980s.
