Wall of Mouths

According to the mixed audience at the Belgian gigs, yes. Young and old all sang along and “danced” together :)

Dunno. Surely its down to the size of venues they are playing?

Well, I’m not saying everyone likes them, but, ‘thanks’ to me, at least everyone in my class knows of them and lemme see at least 1 person likes the album ‘NANE’ : D Not quite the right climate, though. To be honest, I don’t think the band will ever get a major popularity rise again except maybe if they sell themselves which we know they won’t and don’t want.

That’s how I got to know them (and most bands) and it’s indeed how it happens, and people can also get to know them through their friends :-) With a major rise in popularity I rather meant the commercial aspect of popularity than the followers, like being played on the radio. Take for example Iron Maiden, you don’t ever hear them on the radio but everyone knows them and they have a lot of fans, too.

I think with the internet now, its easier to check out a band.

When I was a teenager (and only so much cash to spend) - If I’d have heard of an older band that was ‘supposed’ to be good via recomendation, it would be a pretty big gamble to go out and buy their record over say, the latest Pantera one.

There was fuck all else way of getting to hear that band, there was next to no Rock / Metal on the radio unless they were the ‘now-in-vogue’ britrock bands (Terrorvision, T? Wildhearts etc). And unless you caught them on Headbangers Ball or Noisy Mothers you’d be lucky.

There are loads of bands that I’m into now, that I would have loved as a teenager but just didn’t get into until later (Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Dinosaur Jr, Pixies…) purely for the fact that they weren’t getting loads of hype in Kerrang and I had fuck all clue where to start with them - These days kids can just go onto MySpace or Last.fm, spotify - even piratebay.org and check out a band - its a lot less of a gamble.

Thats what I recon anyway :)

Yeah - my best mates sister had a big cd collection and we used to rifle through it when she wasn’t in. Thats how I discovered T? along with many, many others - probably ended up listening to Troublegum because of the shit album cover ;)

My other mate also used to steal tapes out of his brothers car… another good source of tunes!

I agree it’s much easier to ‘sample’ bands now because of the internet but I’ve also got into a lots of bands through watching them as support acts or through recommendations by friends so I guess the old ways are still good!
I got into rock/metal through the crappy hair metal that was in the charts and through the likes of GnR and Bon Jovi—simply because that was all I heard on the radio, oh, and through my dad’s prog collection. From there you meet like-minded people and expand your tastes. (Still have a guilty pleasure of singing along to Slippery When Wet though…)
WOM is a great resource, too! Long live rock n roolllllllllllllllllllllll!!!

Looking at the pretty big number of gigs that sold out on the last tour I’d say that wasn’t just the old garde going again but a newer young generation as well.

Here here, my friend :-)

I second that! Whatever happened to MTV, they don’t even play music video’s anymore!? :(
Bring back the nineties! :p

Ray Cokes!

Ah…Noisy Mothers…(remembers fondly) I still have a couple of episodes on video somewhere ‘cos it was on at something stupid o’clock in the morning and I used to tape it. Whatever happened to Krusher and Ann?
Didn’t it have the riff from ‘Walk’ as its intro?
Ah…nostalgia…(considers going to the loft to find old video tapes and then realises it is scary up there)

Well, it’s well known that MTV is really a crappy station.
They refuse to play Iron Maiden cause there to old, but still Iron Maiden Sells out complete stadions !!!
But with the idol Generation, and Miley Cyrus and rnb ‘noise’…
I don’t think they will put time in real bands anymore..
As for airplay here, T? got attention with Diane but other than that i can’t really remember much of T? on Belgian Radio or TV,
Alltho they sold out enough shows in Belgium and always been special here..

Hmmm as for attrackting new fans, well allot of ppl (including myself i guess) know more of T? cause we play music,
and Nowhere is one of the most coverd songs me thinks.
I think T?’s new fans are mostly (well the ones i know) musicians, and ppl who stick loyal to a band..
I saw some really young T? fans at the gig or youtube.
So yeah, i think there’s always new ppl interested.

But i doubt they will ever get the airplay here they deserve..

by ‘he’ i mean krusher

Rock animal!