RichM Would I care about all the old GUs? Prob not as that wasn’t my scene, and I want something which represent the here and now
My mates in our youth who were into band music didn’t want to listen to their dad’s music, but wanted their own scene. You look back now and question why my mates didn’t just listen to the stones and Beatles rather than oasis and blur.
Sure, but that’s why they’ve been bringing in DJs who have recent prominence like Amelie Lens and Joseph Capriati.
People bought each year’s ’Now That’s What I Call Music’ compilation, or ‘Ministry of Sound: Annual’ compilations in their droves each year even though they’d been going on for ages - although the concept for the CDs were the same each time, the music was new. If GU were just getting Nick Warren back to do 90s prog mixes you might have more of a point.
‘DJ Kicks’ is also still going with newer DJs like Avalon Emerson, Peggy Gou, Honey Dijon, DJ Boring etc.
What sort of difference in concept would you shift GU to anyway? I don’t think it’s as if the notion of a “Global Underground” shouldn’t still have appeal. What kind of other angle would greater encourage a young contemporary audience to buy mix CDs?!
