and their waste of time, energy, emotion and opportunity. I hope that now the world is turning/burning people will finally take class politics seriously AND get "excited by music and not music culture". Thank you for a(nother) brilliant article and for bringing Disco Inferno back to my attention. Wonderful! Neil, I love that you're doing this series during Post-Rocktoberfest. (Every October I do a series of blog posts about early UK post-rock - or whatever you want to call it. I won't provide a link because I don't want to upset your editor again). Insides next week! Small point of clarification: I believe Daniel Gish had left DI by the time "Summer's Last Sound" came out (to join Bark Psychosis that OTHER big UKPR band, also from the London/Essex hinterland). This is significant because it's remarkable that there is was keyboard player or electronics operator in the band during their classic period - all those samples were triggered by guitars and drums! thanks for another great piece, Neil... It's inspiring to hear and brilliant to see the this conversation taking place at all. D.I. always seemed so much more than just a band to me - they were an epiphany, a cause and a yardstick against which to judge everything else - not just other bands but also my own actions and motivations, as someone writing about / releasing music... They absolutely nailed the meshing of cutting edge form and a content of cutting social commentary / emotional honesty, and