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C'est le moment de relancer le hashtag #indieamnesty :
racontez vos meilleures anecdotes sur la scène indie qu'on rigole un peu, on en a bien besoin !
Just found out Nambucca has reopened #indieamnesty
dedicated to richard linklater, hal hartley, spike lee AND jim jarmusch
#indieamnesty
I love that #indieamnesty started on Twitter then The Enemy broke up.
Ngl the #indieamnesty hashtag is making me really miss being a teenager!
Sported longer version of indie curtains cut in early 90s unaware it'd still make me look like Max Wall in graduation pic #IndieAmnesty
I went to a meet and greet with Echobelly, offered as a prize in the magazine I was writing for, because noone entered. #indieamnesty
1990. Aged14 wandered around Manchester looking for FAC51 with a boy I met at the Smiths Convention #indieamnesty
My second date with my husband @simonthedentist was iliketrains #indieamnesty
I used to video the indie chart on the itv chart show every 4 wks then get the 45s in woolies bargain bin #indieamnesty
Begged my parents for 3 months to let me miss school to go + see Patrick Wolf at the London Palladium til they had to give in #indieamnesty
Saw Patrick Wolf 13 times within the space of 2 years in 6 different countries #indieamnesty
Gave Patrick Wolf a 16 page long letter I wrote about how much his music meant to me #indieamnesty
My myspace name used to be "Crazy Cat *luvz Carl Barat* =D" #indieamnesty
Cried when Dirty Pretty Things split up, stood outside the ABC on my own for 8 hours in the rain to meet them before the show #indieamnesty
I've performed the same Sleeper song ("Shrinkwrapped") at a school concert and then at a work event over ten years later #indieamnesty
I actually wept tears of shame thinking about that. Though it means I still know that the French for cockroach is "cancrelat" #indieamnesty
As a 6th Former, I translated the lyrics to Pulp's Common People into French because I thought it would be FUN. #saddo #indieamnesty
I smugly owned the Pulp/Different Class album with swappable covers and the Dubstar/Disgraceful album with the fanny cover #indieamnesty
I bloody loved minidiscs #indieamnesty
I co-hosted a radio show at uni in the late 90s called JRDC (short for Jarrod Rebecchi's Deep Conviction). We used minidiscs. #indieamnesty
I said in a student newspaper review that Oasis were 'boring, derivative and woudn't amount to anything' #indieamnesty
Someone threw a bottle at my head at Reading 2002 while I was watching Easyworld. #indieamnesty
One time watching JJ72 I did an amusing heckle that the band all laughed at. #indieamnesty
I've seen JJ72 twice. #indieamnesty
I was the first person at UEA to get into Keane. #indieamnesty
Ha! #IndieAmnesty to #IndieRedemption! Thanks for soundtracking my adolescence, @wearejames x