Am i too old to be in a band? I'm nearly 30, is that too old?
You watch the TV and you see the students rioting, and you think 'Is this the generation that should be starting a band and fighting back?'. Is being in a band all about fighting against the establishment?

It doesn't feel like 12 years since i was playing my first gig and feeling the most alive i have ever done in my entire life. It feels like yesterday. I want to feel like that again.

Every band that emerges today seem so young, so full of life and gumption it makes me feel old and decrepit. They also come across as angry about the state of Britain today. Working class and furious about how they are marginalised and reduced to a poor, scrounging or reduced to a menial job that is un-fulfilling and dead-end, non-entity with no prospects.

Brother have emerged with an ethos of "Fuck the man" and a batch of tunes that say 'We are downtrodden' and 'We demand respect'.

Haven't we heard all this before? The Enemy came out with a similar manifesto and people got behind behind it, but now things are significantly worse, and the jobs they didn't want because they wanted to sit at home with Richard and Judy, aren't even available.

Too many people demand rock'n'roll is for the underprivileged and deprived, but is it really?

Why isn't it for everybody?

James McMahon of NME fame, talked about the issue of certain elements of society being "too posh to rock". The student tuition fees issue talks to a specific sub-section of society, but is this jilted generation the only people allowed to vent their dissatisfaction with life or just plain and simply comment on their situation.

There are other people in this country that can write a tune, a lyric or a whole song that doesn't have to belong to the young. It can speak to everyone, and it makes it no less valid.

Surely Rock'n'Roll is classless! It can speak to everyone no matter where they come from.

You can write about how shit your "working class" life is, or your not, and you don't. Sometimes its more interesting to hear that your aren't and you have the same feelings as everybody else, but it isn't about escaping from the suburbs and "making it".

This is in no way an attack on the whole ethos of being "working class", purely a diatribe on how music is for "everybody" and that someone that may not be from the most deprived background can feel alone, trapped, un-loved, disappointed or, God forbid, happy.

Rock'n'Roll is for EVERYBODY! Except Matt Cardle! The tosser!