As someone who spent the 00s being a Massive Sleater-Kinney Fan, there is just so much I could write here. I can also remember looking at Rotten.com in the university library back in 1998 too, in between reading everything I could on the Lunachicks*.
*The Lunachicks were astoundingly ahead of their time, in a manner which even in their recent book they don't seem to fully appreciate. Former proteges of Sonic Youth from the 90s and had full sleeve tattoos, drag queen makeup and songs about gender surgery, gender role swapping and Jon Waters films.
I would also add here, that Carrie Brownstein's book was a surprisingly dour read. Whereas, even as someone who wasn't a huge fan of Sonic Youth I thought Girl In A Band was excellent, not least because like Debbie Harry, Kim Gordon was well into her 30s before achieving success.
As always, Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker saw it coming and put it in Nathan Barley … remember Dan betting on Russian tramps fighting, live-streamed to the hipsters in Hosegate?
As someone who spent the 00s being a Massive Sleater-Kinney Fan, there is just so much I could write here. I can also remember looking at Rotten.com in the university library back in 1998 too, in between reading everything I could on the Lunachicks*.
I just wanted to add that it wasn't just TMZ posting grim images for clicks. Jezebel, seems to have memory-holed this incident: https://jezebel.com/did-libyan-video-of-a-journalists-rape-get-posted-on-yo-5883491 and this too https://jezebel.com/doth-not-a-mentally-ill-popstar-bleed-346256
*The Lunachicks were astoundingly ahead of their time, in a manner which even in their recent book they don't seem to fully appreciate. Former proteges of Sonic Youth from the 90s and had full sleeve tattoos, drag queen makeup and songs about gender surgery, gender role swapping and Jon Waters films.
I would also add here, that Carrie Brownstein's book was a surprisingly dour read. Whereas, even as someone who wasn't a huge fan of Sonic Youth I thought Girl In A Band was excellent, not least because like Debbie Harry, Kim Gordon was well into her 30s before achieving success.
As always, Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker saw it coming and put it in Nathan Barley … remember Dan betting on Russian tramps fighting, live-streamed to the hipsters in Hosegate?