>>>Have they ever really been pigeonholed?
As Jessie wrote, this is a touchy subject... In the early 90s Cranes were portrayed as morose, unlistenable goths by the British music press, and since goth is generally considered to be a bad word, you can hardly blame them for wanting to get rid of that label. And I'm _not_ writing this to piss people off, I'm a what people would call a goth myself, and this is just my very own, personal opinion :)! But the English music press can be really annoying when it comes to branding bands and writing stupid, irrelevant things about them (at least I think so). I remember one review of a Cranes concert in which the writer kept making sneering remarks about the "gothic" crowd at the show, along the lines of "Just look at Cranes' audience, nothing but sad old goths stuck in the past, just like the band themselves." NME I think it was. I happened to be at that concert and on the whole, I didn't think the audience was particularly gothic. Lots of black T-shirts, sure, but that hardly qualifies as goth... I personally don't care whether goth is a bad word or not; I know who I am, I know what kind of music I like and if other people feel the need to put labels on everything, they are free to do that. But I can imagine how frustrating it would be if you're making music and trying to be creative and do new things, and people _still_ "judge" you based on the stuff you made 10 years ago! Cranes make good music, and that's all that matters to me!!! Sorry for rambling, I'll crawl back into my spiderweb infested crypt now, light a few black candles and meditate on memento mori for a while ;)... (In case someone didn't get it, that was a joke :)! I'm really going to wash the dishes, and write a one page abstract for an archaeology paper...) /Vix. - To unsubscribe to inthenight, send an email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "unsubscribe inthenight" in the body of the message. For further information send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. http://www.starblood.org/
