Bedouin & the "Scene" (was: HW: Recent v Old / Poll)

Jonathan Jarrett jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK
Tue Nov 23 12:36:26 EST 1999


On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> When bands like Fu Manchu, Orange Goblin, Spiritual Beggars, etc. can sell
> out venues--small venues, but decent small venues--in England, and when I
> can walk into my dinky little local record store and find their records,
> and you can buy a copy of Kerrap! and read about them ... then there is no
> reason why Bedouin should not be doing as well. I think Alan should be
> trying to break into the whole "stoner/desert/wossname" genre, since
> whether or not its a niche, it's a more successful niche than he's in
> currently, and it's a niche Bedouin could market themselves within very
> easily.

        That's a damn good point. The Stoner/Desert thing is , while not
big, graced with a number of very useful record labels, like Man's Ruin or
Meteorcity, which while not brilliantly co-ordinated get CDs into shops
and as far as I can tell don't screw their bands over or insist on
long-term record deals. And Bedouin, though they root in Motorhead more
than in Sabbath as do the British stoner bands like Orange Goblin or
Hangnail, could share a billwith them quite comfortably.

        It's part of a bigger phenomenon, it seems to me: the bands you
might see at a festival, like HW, Bedouin or the Ozrics, are not the same
as the stoner ones that you might see at this Man's Ruin mini-fest that
will some day happen in London. They just don't blend at all; in London it
even comes down to venues, the stoner bands play the Underworld or the
Garage and Alan and Huw play the Riggers or wherever. Yet it's not as if
the two sides are unaware of each other. Why is there this split between
the scenes? Is it the same in the US? It's odd and frustrating.

        Afterthought: though they might be a bit loud and punk for them,
Bedouin could do worse than deal with Snapper I'd have thought.

        Yours,
                Jon

n/p: Pink Floyd - _Piper at the Gates of Dawn_



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