26: What the hell was indie sleaze?

Regular No Tags listeners will notice that we often talk about
living through several revivals at once, but indie sleaze is one
that doesn’t seem to be going away. So why indie sleaze, and why
now? And what do people actually mean when they talk about an
indie sleaze revival in 2024?


For this episode, Chal and Tom dug out their skinny ties and
shutter shades (not to mention some brutal photos from the depths
of their personal Facebook archives) to try and figure out
whether this is a genuine musical revival or a cynical move from
struggling millennial marketeers to reanimate an era when they
were still relevant. And are we dealing with nostalgia for a
genuine scene here, or simply a yearning for a time when
city-focused alternative scenes were actually realistic and
accessible? And is there actually a much more interesting scene
from this era that we could and should be excavating instead?


In summary, this is an episode where we evoke both Mark Fisher
and Agyness Deyn – a No Tags manifesto if ever there was one.
Enjoy!


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