About The Music That Never Died
I have spent the last 30-odd years listening to what I think is some of the best music ever made. Call it Britpop, indie, alternative, shoegaze, post-punk — call it whatever you want. The labels never mattered as much as the music.
I truly believe we'll never see another explosion quite like the one we experienced in the 1990s. Not because the music isn't good enough to happen again, but because the world has changed.
The way we discover music has changed. The way artists release music has changed. The way we buy music has changed. And, in many ways, we've changed too. The genie is out of the bottle, and I don't think it can ever be put back.
I miss waiting for the weekly UK imports to arrive at the record store. I miss hoping the latest issue of Select or NME came with one of those brilliant cover cassettes or CDs — because not every shop got them, and when they did, they disappeared fast. I miss finding a new favourite band before everyone else had heard of them.
Those moments can't be streamed.
But the music didn't die.
The bands we loved kept playing. Some never stopped. Some disappeared and came back. Some are making new music every bit as worth hearing as the records we bought decades ago. And a new generation of artists is carrying that music forward in its own way.
That's what The Music That Never Died is about.
It's about The Past — the bands, records and moments that got us here.
It's about the artists Still Making Noise.
It's about The Next Generation and discovering what came next.
And this isn't just for us “kids” 30 years later. It's for our kids too. Show them what you heard. Show them why you still play these records and still go to these shows all these years later.
Discographies can be found anywhere. This site is about something more — the music, the discoveries, the concerts, the memories, and the feeling that made all of it matter.
For those of us who lived it, welcome back.
For those discovering it for the first time, welcome.
The music never died. Neither did the passion for it.
Welcome back to your past. Now discover what came next.