Perth Music

OK, so I sat down to write a review of the Pnau and Van She gig I went to last Wednesday (which was great by the way, it had fantastic songs, crazy people in strawberry and dove outfits, huge balloons bouncing around the whole club and a tonne of little instruments used instead of samples). What I ended up writing and seemed to notice more and more at the show was the crowd and I guess just the state of the youth in 2008.

What started as an eighties revival in music and in fashion has started to blend with some nineties influences and kids just don’t know what genre they are into anymore. People wear fluero and hypercolour shirts next to their friend that is wearing a plain white t-shirt labeled “Fuck Fluero” and don’t get me started on popped collars. It does seem funny that clothing a lot of twenty-somethings would have in their wardrobe from primary school is now in again and sold at shops for such a high price, wear and tear already included. There are still groups of different styles in the room but they have definitely become less and less obvious and styles are mixing together. Skater styles have mixed with mod and goth styles to create emo and now even more Frankenstein styles are getting created by the youth unknowingly.

Another thing that was quite obvious in the room was that at least one out of every three people had a camera and didn’t mind taking a photo every 5 seconds. Most of the time the photos were not taken of what was happening on stage but just simple photos of themselves and their friends, holding the camera with one hand slightly above their head and a silly pose on their face. What started as a fun thing to do on MySpace has become essential to the youth of today going anywhere night or day for MySpace or Facebook or their blog or Flickr or their MSN Messenger display pic or their laptop wallpaper…you get the point.

Mobile phones were out in force that night as well. I think it would be safe to say every single person in The Capitol had a mobile phone. And they weren’t afraid of using them either. You could see people smsing their friend that was on the other side of the room, back and forth all night. There are also no need for lighters at gigs any more for the slow loving songs as mobile phones do a good enough job apparently. I’ve even seen videos of flames that people can download off the internet onto their mobiles so that the flame plays on the screen at concerts.

Mmmmm anyway Pnau and Van She were awesome.

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