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When in the 80´s the Reid brothers founded The Jesus and Mary Chain, probably had no idea what awaited them. Being one of the most emblematic bands of the Rock N Roll of all times, The Jesus and Mary Chain was a mixture of the best blues, bubblegum pop of the 50´s, the loud noise of the Velvet Underground, and the sweet lyrics of the Beach Boys, with an extreme and dirty attitude like the Cramps. With this elaborate package of references, Jesus and Mary Chain conquered all communication means, being the Rock N Roll revelation of the 80´s. Creation Records adopted them and became one of the most important labels of the 90´s.

While the excesses of the Reid brothers were memorable including fights on stage, aggression to fans during the concerts, the typical sex-drugs-rock n roll that normally this type of bands experience was enforced when giving provocative interviews in which they made fun of both the audience for consider them “stupid and ignorant”, and the very English pop dandy Morrissey, his music always prevailed and proved to be the most important fuel for all that downloading image and attitude that always broke out in a favorable way . There is an urban legend that says  the Reid brothers, went to a studio and met Iggy Pop and Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, and simply starting punching them for destroying the true roots of Rock N Roll …

The truth is that the importance of Jesus and Mary Chain is essential to understand the dynamics of other “terrible brothers” of the Rock. The Gallagher brothers, Liam and Nolan, who between punches, cocaine, anorexic models and some good Rock N Roll, earned a huge amount of fans during the 90´s and 2000, people who were hungry for easier and honest music. The fights between these two brothers have been recorded since the start of the effervescent Oasis, and the separation of the band is a testimony that Liam and Nolan, for sometime weren’t very good friends. Oasis doesn’t exist anymore.

However, back when the world was “Oasis vs. Blur,” Gallagher brothers could full stadiums, arenas and theaters, becoming, against all odds, in a band that created mass excitement and brotherhood, with hymns as “Live Forever “” Wonderwall “and” Do not Look Back in Anger “. Ah yes, they also took possession of the Beatles and David Bowie without shame. Good for them. The new album of Noel Gallagher keeps the nostalgia and warmth of Oasis. His new project and album, “Noel Gallagher´s High Flying Birds” proves it. Come to the Atlantic hall in Rome on the 13^th of March. For more information, visit their official website: http://www.noelgallagher.com/

Alexa Ray

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Vintage. Seeing old TV series is vintage. Putting worn clothes on is vintage. Going out in the street with your parent´s clothes is vintage. The retro look, old toys, retro-future, it´s all vintage. Star Wars is vintage. Transformers are vintage. Kurt Cobain´s suicide is vintage. History doesn´t pass in vain and is always looking to repeat itself. Despite it not repeating itself, all its characteristics are similar in the future that´s becoming the present. The changes in fashion, above all vintage, attract young people more and more who are tired of poor cultural ways, the worn-down internet, of propaganda, of adverts… It seems like it had, in everything vintage, more depth, more romance.

So from where does this great interest for everything old, from what happened, from what is no more and however it still is come from? The answers are multiple. When we´re interested in something old, be it historical, in this case coming from pop culture, there´s a great nostalgia in between, the anxieties of wanting to commemorate something that was, maintaining nostalgia alive. And it´s how the saying goes: “past times were best”. But with vintage, past becomes present again, it succumbs to fetichism, mannerism and re-use. That way, now we enjoy punk, disco, hippie, goth, pin-up girls, garage and psychedelic cultures again, all artifacts of the past that never wear off or that people strive to reinvent and revalue.

And it´s true, possibly all trend feeds off the past. From garage rock to underground film, 80s fashions and that song you danced to the other day in a party that was so old you weren´t even born when it came out, or even a simple thought, and despite that you know the lyrics better than any of the hits on the radio today. To have a vintage style, as well, you have to know how to wear it and seduce, become part of the past that one wants to dress like and from which so many references in conversations come from, and the way in that everything combines to be fresh and modern. Nobody will tell you that that old stuff from your dad is rubbish if you know how to use it.

Like everything that touches us, vintage becomes a product of consumerism, of everything that needs to be digested to carry on being cool. Is the present so pathetic that we have to resort to the charms of the past? Something that never was and that will carry on never being. That´s how the relic becomes a part of a new fiction of today. The modern gestures disappear in a hybrid identity, like the machines that give meaning to these dark times. For more information on Roma Vintage visit this website. Music, culture, sport and good food until August 15th: http://www.romavintage.it/

Alexa Ray

Rent apartments in Rome and be part of vintage culture, that absorbs everything, which is ready to transform you into a pure nostalgic.

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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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