I was at a Hum show last night, a band I fell in love with in the late 90s. In front of me was a young couple who were almost certainly not born when Hum was at their peak. They were taking āselfiesā of themselves with a digital camera and honestly looked like they could have come right from that time.
They were re-living a time they hadnāt lived but had seen on videos, and they were reliving it filtered through decades of other cultural influence, and it was beautiful, almost re-assuring in a world gone mad - the cycle continues.
Young people are interested in that time, and any way that they engage with it, whether through appreciating the music or its more abstract influence on the culture, itās their interpretation on it and we donāt own it just because we were around the first time.