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See, writing about music in 2009 is war. The corporations own rock. The careerists run the live scene. The Pigeon Detectives have been to Japan and I haven’t been there and that’s really not bloody fair. And what’s so ultimately sad about Swells passing is that the good guys and grrrls, the people that give a fuck about all of the above, have lost a key player in the fight of good against evil - Corporal Bloody Caps Lock, my hero, Sergeant Steven Wells.
Unfortunately, these days the corporations also own music journalism too.
As for Swells, I grew up reading him in NME and he was a fantastic writer. It’s a mark of a real music writer that, even though I disagreed with almost every review he ever wrote (a case of, if Swells hates it, it must be good), I’d unfailingly scour each copy for his stuff and read every word he wrote.
Swells cared about the music more than the music deserved.
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