Comments on: Crafty Kraftwerk http://speechification.com/2007/11/22/crafty-kraftwerk/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: steve http://speechification.com/2007/11/22/crafty-kraftwerk/#comment-25 steve Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:23:18 +0000 http://speechification.com/2007/11/22/crafty-kraftwerk/#comment-25 It seems a bit weird having shows about Techno and Kraftwerk on R4 doesn't it? But when you think about it, the station's management is probably all about my age (mid-forties) or older. My generation's in charge now! Demographically they're probably all children of the post-war meritocratic bubble. Punks or wannabes. People who got their shapeless overcoats from Oxfam and slotted Kraftwerk in alongside the post-punks we read about in the NME. I saw them in 1980-ish at the Hammersmith Palais (I don't think it was the Odeon. Or maybe it was The Lyceum). I think of it as an important part of my musical education. I don't think I've ever got over the jaw-dropping realisation that the band had left the stage and the wardrobe-sized computers were in charge for the rest of the gig. It seems a bit weird having shows about Techno and Kraftwerk on R4 doesn’t it? But when you think about it, the station’s management is probably all about my age (mid-forties) or older. My generation’s in charge now!

Demographically they’re probably all children of the post-war meritocratic bubble. Punks or wannabes. People who got their shapeless overcoats from Oxfam and slotted Kraftwerk in alongside the post-punks we read about in the NME.

I saw them in 1980-ish at the Hammersmith Palais (I don’t think it was the Odeon. Or maybe it was The Lyceum). I think of it as an important part of my musical education. I don’t think I’ve ever got over the jaw-dropping realisation that the band had left the stage and the wardrobe-sized computers were in charge for the rest of the gig.

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