Old music: Serious Drinking – Love on the Terraces

The 80s wasn't all backcombed hair and shoulder pads. One strain of indie was devoted solely to silliness Indie seems a grimly serious business these days. Join an indie band now and you can choose your role: artist, expounding on the mysteries of the universe in a monotone; or pursuer of stardom, holding forth about how your band will conquer America with gimlet-eyed determination. There doesn't seem to be a lot of room for people who are, well, just having a laugh.In the 1980s, a large part of...

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