Bob Stanley, un periodista del Melody Maker a finales de los años 1980 y miembro de la banda Saint Etienne, hizo una declaración similar en una entrevista en 2006, asegurando que C86 representaba el ""beginning of indie music...It's hard to remember how underground guitar music and fanzines were in the mid 80s; DIY ethics and any residual punk attitudes were in isolated pockets around the country and the C86 comp and gigs brought them together in an explosion of new groups"" (Traducción: «el comienzo de la música independiente...