Put your hands up for Electro

The image is from a google image search of 'Hangover'. Today I'm feeling sorry for myself after putting on a gig last night and then hitting a club afterwards, all the while drinking far too much Alcohol.

The gig went very well. I was putting on Krap Nek (France), Omerta, U.Y.A. and Carraway. I haven't put on a hardcore show in a while and the turn out was fairly good, mind you in the tiny back room of The Castle on Oldham St, Manchester the bands alone were nearly enough to fill the room. I really love the venue though, ok its not going to win any design awards and it is basically a shithole but its ideal for sweaty metal and crust punk gigs like this.

After storming performances by all the bands myself and few friends headed off to Satans Hollow, I can't remember the last time I was in there, but it hadn't changed one bit. You know what you're getting with Satan's - a healthy dose of commercial punk, metal, emo and indie. All was going just as expected; drinks were flowing and I was dancing badly, until from nowhere Alter Ego's 'Rocker' is dropped into the middle of the set. I was shocked, don't get me wrong its a huge tune but it did make me realise just how mainstream electro has got right now. 3 years ago you wouldn't have heard that tune outside of underground techno clubs and now electro is everywhere. The latest T Mobile advert features Claude Von Stroke's 'The Whistler' and The Freaks 'The Creeps' has been played to death on every radio station and music tv channel all summer.

Where is electro going to go from this? Over-saturation brings boredom, it also leads to crap-cash-in productions, milking a genre for every last penny it has; Put your hands up for Detriot, anyone?

all this leads me to believe that Electro is dead.

Well not quite dead (had you going then!) but iits like what happened with punk 30 years ago all over again. I always prefered post punk/hardcore more anyway. I wonder what post-electro will sound like...