Epithaph: The Rise and Fall of the Munich-based indie clubs

"Did you see the stylish kids in the riot shovelled up like muck Set the night on fire ..." - I would be tempted to write now, those were the days. The fact that the Atomic will abort its tents and the cord includes club to open under new flag are not scandalous events. Instead, there are two perfect examples of cases of our time. We never were seen closer to the absolute individualism as now, but it was never too heavy, yet clear and differentiated range limits. Change so that "the" two traditional Munich-based independent music clubs for their program, or equally likely to change the front door, so no surprise. Especially not those who have kept open in the last few months the ears and eyes in Munich nightlife. Also true that Britpop and little sister are now firmly in the centermost Independent Mainstream how Cordbetreiber A. Vulic on sueddeutsche.de reveals, to anyone who reasonably clear understanding of the world is hardly a novelty.
What the hardcore horror at Indieanern was great when the guys from Mando Diao or the Killers for the first time could be heard on Bayern 3! But how many die-hard indie fans if they do not accidentally dated from the first hour, had dealt with the beginnings? With traditional lines, the Swedish bands such as Mando Diao, The Hives, The Ark or even English Rotzbuben like the Libertines, The Stone Roses as dreamy combo or band fan wars like Oasis vs. Blur had produced? Everyone knew, of course, from Munich Indiefan by 2005 over a maximum of five corners of the Upper Bavarian guitarist of Franz Ferdinand, or at least his sister, his cousin, the cat or the neighbor's dog.
For too many now in their mid to mid / end of twenty years of indie trailer Pulp described only a few years later rather have the name of an alcopop, Oasis has already become synonymous with pop music, at least allowed if the conversations of the night to believe that the author of this Epithaphs in the last three or four years at the relevant places led.
Always on the hunt for something new, always trying at all costs musical, fashionable and above all in respects coolness and style, the first elite to be, it was probably only a matter of time before these concepts run dead had, perhaps especially, when in the ever-expanding mass of support to the early days was missing, again press the Enter key, generated from prose eventually not have any lyrics.
How did what we had just ruined so, what is the death of indie, if you want it most pathetic call it that, because actually justified? What made disaffected revolutionaries and rebels socially acceptable, toothless tiger without any serious reference to the cited Riots? On the one hand, almost pointless to pursue these questions yet, but on the other hand ... there was this one moment, have been seen as a sudden and rapidly increasing carrier cones in the Munich club. There is a steep, insidious thesis perhaps be ventured: The Rise of Pete Doherty Babyshambles with his solo project was the fall of Britpop and independent music. One theory, mind you, not blame. "Debt" have if only the media that the combination of crack junkie supermodel have exploited to the last ounce of fuel. "Debt" have if only we who have seen our endless voyeurism were satisfied and grateful for the new style mitinbegriffenen suggestions. That is so avant-garde from the mainstream and niche ...
All this was not always so - the memory is allowed: one had in the early 2000s at the height of the Munich-based indie years before the door of the Atomic often more respect than before the famous "No" of P1, provided the cord together after opening with a long-closed location concept called Prague Spring in a more traditional place as a welcome relief - but also relaxation, as the door policy was handled here a lot more moderate. The audience thanked: forgotten the evening of the first few weeks, when the DJ was hunting around six clock in the morning Time is running out from the speakers while on the other side of the window at City Hall has slowly began the day - a useful pedant to a certain parking deck in Munich's old town. And for Atomic like corduroy as the Prague Spring was: never forget the Sit Downs eponymous indie anthem, when (almost) everyone on the dance floor gathered Boys & Girls settled and held schlaksigem expressive dance in hippieske rocking movements alternated arms sometimes stretched straight up (the beer in one, the fag in the other) or just because all kind of the other's shoulders, offered wild Knut choir Gien broke loose and before having been back standing-waver again to the harsh riffs of C `mon C` mon entered the shins, while threw back with a smile the side parting.
The party of the millennium generation, which gives the music its independent heyday, has become more mature. We are grown up and we think not only guests but also club owners, musicians, DJ's and Groupies latter. Some have families, others are about, and still others are gone, their tastes have changed and sold off the old clothes market in the last coat. New phenomena have conquered the clubs, who today still wears leather jacket, hat, and Chuck is most ridiculed as nostalgic or according to the liberal slogan of our time nod without resistance, breaking taboos or open up space for now anyway other and there are fortunately not just in Munich little.
Sure, every hipster who holds only a little something in it can, even today, the life story of Pete Doherty still rattle in his sleep, which ultimately belongs to the perfectly good form differentiated program. But what about "Live Forever" from the lyrics of? Rather than focus to specialize, is today one thing: swimming in the crowd, lie no longer fixed, wider = better. Neither your music, even with your clothing style, yet ... (A rogue who wants to continue to think this line of argument, but it is of course no one will be banned!) This is all not even really more halfway Quite as ordered to a kebab and answered the question "sharp" with "a bit" instead of a clear "yes" or "No". Insofar as the decisions make clear "No Operator" for the outdated concept of respect as well as adherence to traditions, at this point in the direction of a friendly Winker Luna current.
If only the irrelevant question of whether it would not perhaps gone a different way: now tell me what can you want now you've got it all The whole scene is obscene Time will strip it away ... and that's good. Nothing is as constant as change, and as the saying goes? One door closes, another one opens. If only good memories and the hope that the Munich nightlife enriched with two new clubs, or at least concepts is that the uniformity is shut, just as it was written on the old banners of their first trips.