Guitar bands are over and girlie electro has triumphed. But dyed-in-the-wool indie-kid, Helen Sloan, finds this a cause for celebration, not commiseration.
Indie-rock is dead. The future, apparently, is lady-led electro-pop - Lady Gaga, Little Boots et al - together they form an invincible forcefield constructed entirely of glitter and hotpants that will keep the hordes of guitar bands at bay.
Not that the twitching corpse of your average indie band has any right to complain. They’ve all collapsed under their own weight; a mountain of mostly mediocre bands, all talk and …