The Retro Critique refuted, by a Melody Maker reader, November 2 1996
Well, it's a point of view, and on its own terms, watertight.
And as for us elitist-miserabilist-obscurists... I feel seen.
Although I had stopped writing for MM by this point, it feels like this piece from several months earlier might have contributed to the Britpop-lover's backlash - in it I start to describe Tribal Gathering as a kind of anti-Britpop convergence, then correct myself: actually the Tribal Gathered are blissfully unconcerned with Oasis-at-Knebworth etc, and it's actually Britpop that is the anti-formation - anti faceless techno bollocks etc etc
Also letters like this might have goaded Joe Handy to the rescue of his fellow ladrock-lovers
