Lost tribes of pop

A fine piece from The Grauniad on pop tribes:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/25/emo-pop-tribes-mods-punks

I'm sure I must belong to a tribe but I'm not sure which one it is. Roskilde is certainly a great gathering of the tribes. I constantly discover enormous new sub-cultures the existnce of which I had no idea.

I have a fond memory of going to see Desmond Dexter in Stockholm with Danne many years ago. On arrival I began to feel nervous. Half the audience were skinheads, the other half rastas. This has got to turn nasty I thought. How wrong can you be?

Desmond did his thing and everyone had a great party.

White man in the Hammersmith Palais indeed!