Even The Libertines are nowhere near headline status nowadays, and until they reformed they held something of a semi-mythical status.
It's interesting how the American acts of that era - The Strokes, The Killers, even KOL who are still very much a festival/arena headline sized act - have fared so much better than their British counterparts. Only ones I can think of that still hold up well commercially today are Arctic Monkeys, who were always a huge name, and Kasabian (up until the Tom Meighan controversy) who had more of a crossover appeal and were less guitar oriented than the others.
It's just crazy looking back how once upon a time Razorlight and Franz Ferdinand were deemed to be on the same level as the likes of RHCP, Muse and Pearl Jam by the R&L promoters.
Absolute rubbish, there are loads of MPs in the cabinet and shadow cabinet that don’t come across right. The current labour leader isn’t particularly charismatic, but getting by on perceived competence.
The likes of Burgon and RLB will never cut through, they just don’t have the personality. However that doesn’t mean there won’t be socialist group MPs in the future who have the “it” factor.
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