‘we, the people of the group, look forward to a creatively rich autumn. after successful gigs in september, we move towards october with new events in the diary and a growing awareness of our sound among a different audience. the ethos as ever remains the same, whatever the name’.

neubeat

The Neu Beats are a counter-culture movement: We, comrades, believe that the mass culture in the early 21^st century has been hijacked by the monopoly of the following hegemonic forces:

·      The facile postmodern production and market dominance of R n’ B music and video content

·      Commodity Fetishism

·      A general self-absorbed mentality

·      Political apathy

·      The worship of general superficiality

·      The generic high street

·      A collective pride in educational avoidance

·      The dominant Moribund extolling of banal information on social network sites

·      The overwhelming desire not to be excluded and therefore to fit into the capitalist model

·      Generic communication through dress

·      The social and political suppression of voicing certain unorthodox opinions

·      The idolising of materialism and thoughtless slang in hip hop culture

·      Irresponsible fossil fuel consumption

·      The overwhelming amount of ‘switch your brain off’ Television content

·      Sound bite politics

·      Restrictive formalism on freedom of choice for females under certain feminist rhetoric

·      Feminism overtly manifest in the absorption of destructive aggressive male characteristics

·      Thatcherism

·      The reduction of superior content in education, in order to gain a higher pass rate in qualifications