I am the founding and only member of my scene.

'Yeah, but you can't exactly call him Geograph!'

'Okay, well he's Geograph-influenced!'

'Only his clean guitar parts!'

'Yeah but it's still quite Geograph!'

'Yeah but, if anything, he's more like Bloc Party!'

'No, he's more Geograph than Bloc Party!'

Due to the ease with which we can access music these days and the way in which it can be communicated to us so easily via different types of media, I don't think that people are so much part of a single 'scene' as such.

It's much more common these days that a music-lover is into hardcore, hip-hop, dance and indie because we hear about all these different genres from websites like this one, TV channels and other music publications.

It's obvious that some individuals are much more part of a particular scene or movement than others, but, on the whole there isn't really the need for something like the American hardcore movment these days because, to be honest, 'alternative' as a reaction to the mainstream doesn't really exist anymore.

I think the closest was the 'no scene' thing around Fleet 2002, which we had in fact completely made-up ourselves.

There was no ageism going on, which suited us well (the youngest member in the band was 17, the oldest was 52), the bands we played with had a great attitude towards music, and people never desperately tried to pigeonhole us. I miss those days :-(

minimal techno run a club night and go all over the shop going to hear it and party. So I guess that is some kinda scene right there.

i do really think of myself as an indie kid. the whole culture of music/films/clothes etc etc etc really helped me get over being a lonely, depressed idiot when i was about 14/15, so i trained myself to turn my toes in and listened to belle & sebastian a lot.

i like loads of other music, but the whole movement and its values and ethos is really important to me

I agree with what you're saying, that there's nothing around at the moment even remotely as tight-knit and active as the hardcore scene was back then (I've not seen the film but I get the same impression from reading Our Band Could Be Your Life).

BUT, when I go to relatively small gigs in Oxford, talk to people round here about music, play gigs in tiny little venues, etc, you still do get a feeling of being part of something, even if it's not a 'movement' or something which is going to change anyone's life. And that's quite nice.

but that probably had something to do with te fact that at the time no one else was. I was wearing skinny trousers in 2000! I had to get them tailored! Happy Days...

Now I'm Swingdie/Nu-kroon

Hi-o!

Its basically a bunch of people aged between about 18 and 26 that like dancing to 50s and 60s tunes, and that travel around everywhere to do so.

I do tend to stray to the r&b rooms where the mods all go, but I'm not a mod. I'm not really an anything. Just a lover of quality.

I heard that Nu-Metal was scene and it might still be thriving I always see kids in black hoodies and beardy blokes with long shorts on and loadsa chains.

Though i'm not a 'Youth' but then neither are the followers, DJ's producers and Rave attendee's...that i know and meet.

that I certainly felt part of

find a free stream of it online?