Rock music is hopeless
We pay a visit at the home of Dave and Clare in London, in April -87, and it's something of a sneak preview of the new EP.
After the band's rather poor attended tour in Sweden last year, and deeply aware of that the British music press tends to shy away from "old" stuff ("Our novelty wore off a long time ago"), the couple's view on the terms for being a musician respectively the rock music itself, has changed.
“Rock music is in fact rather hopeless if all it can do is referring to itself all
the time", is their conclusion.
Yet their voices lack bitterness and anger. It's perhaps just a little weariness that's traceable. Clare points out that there's only so many indie record companies you can go to before you must consider what your path leads to...
"The Moodists has a dynamic that prevent us from producing that light weight pop music. Besides we're not an indie group, and have a broader ambition with our music."
To reach out the band needs better means to get to their audience, and a
new producer. Here already, you sense a relocation to Australia, although
some
years are
to pass before the trip back there. Now the indie companies have lost the
power to reach out with their music, many have turned their ambition to
become "majors" instead.
Dave sees this also as a problem in general for the indie scene's ability to express the musical content.
The songs in this radio piece comes from the then new "Someone's got to give (from a 12"ep on TIM Rec) and the single before, "It takes a thief".
