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MY DAD’S INTO DUBSTEP?

By Editor-in-Chief ⋅ February 25, 2008 ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

James Proctor

I recently had a conversation with my sister who informed me that over the Christmas period she heard my dad and his mate talking highly of a dubstep/garage band called Burial who have subsequently been a big hit on Radio 1 with the track “Archangel”. On more than one occasion as a teenager I remember turning the corner of my street and hearing heavy Dub bass lines reverberating from my house .Now I know what you are thinking, but it isn’t true. Banish the images of some sad old fart forcing his behind into skinny jeans, donning a new era cap and coming out with words like “safe” accompanied by some moronic hand gesture. I have listened to many of my friends’ conversations before on how our parents’ tastes are so “lame” and they were surprised to hear that I wasn’t of the same opinion. I credit much of my own broad musical tastes to listening to my dad’s CD collection as a child. He was in fact the first person to play me drum and bass. The truth of the matter is my dad is passionate about music and stays liberal in his tastes. The moral of this story is that the gap between you and your parents isn’t as wide as you imagine, in some ways they’re probably quite cool. I’m dedicating this column to Edmund Lanchester Proctor, keeping the Penrith Dub scene alive.