ministry of sound dead?

[wheezer]

so I'm just reading my popbitch, and they've got this little tidbit:

>> Ministry Of Doom <<
Dance music bloodsuckers bite bullet


So farewell then, Ministry Of Sound. It all seems to be going tits-up for them, with the magazine, publishing, record labels and half the staff disappearing into oblivion.

Still, there's a certain poetic justice at
work - it was Ministry's rampant commercialisation that destroyed the dance scene, with James Palumbo acting as a Pied Piper, leading the innocent provincials like Cream and Gatecrasher down a path that has doomed the lot of then.

So, can we have Acid House back now please?

.... any truth to that?

[V Knid esq]

Here's hoping...

[gunjack]

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[grobelaar]

I was channel hopping last night and caught this snippet on some pop news programme on BBC Choice about slumping Dance Music sales - apparently sales of Dance Music Mix CDs for August this year are half what they were last...

Then they had the Fatboy talking about the resurgence in guitar music, with bands like the Vines, Strokes and White Stripes and how they were just going to have to weather the storm (how about writing some decent tunes)...

The piece ended with some Gibson spokesman saying that sales of Guitars had increased by 40%. What goes around comes around - Guitars are the new decks it seems...

Its sink or swim time now, so expect to see Fatboy and Oakenfold playing out Indie sets at the Mean Fiddler and Rock City :-)

The Music industry is becoming like the fashion industry...

[jukka]

wouldn't be bad if they are dead.........hahahhaa :-p :D

[7875]

thank god that guitars are coming back, maybe we can scoop up some cheap decks from all the wankers who now want to strum and pose it up!

[Sheridan]

wow first buzz in washington dc and now ministry of sound.
the tower of babel has finally fallen.

[pille'ocheoni]

wow,that accually sounds relieving............i thought even the stuff i like now would be more rapidly popular,but from this there is hope.[/p]

[Loz]

I just watched 24 Hour Party People (great film, by the way). I kind of missed that whole scene, being too young at the time and not in Manchester.

But it struck me as funny that indie music spawned dance music, and now dance music is receeding to indie once again. I guess the moral of the story is music definitely works in circles, but indie will always be around.