Myspace gets a lot of hate these days. Deservedly so in most cases. It had it’s moment, but now seems to be entirely populated by 14 year girls and bands while everyone else has pissed off to Facebook. It takes a special kind of hate to actually pen and record an entire song about it though. Which is exactly what has done.

Pete Green makes acoustic pop music. Best of all, he makes music that is actually about something. Whether that something is a hatred of Myspace, attacking the NME or odes to Grimsby Town footballers, it’s not your run of the mill pop material. These days he plays with a full band live (The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut), but I didn’t get in to the church at Indietracks to see his set. Whether or not a band adds anything to these songs I don’t know, but it would take a lot to top the simple man and his guitar sound that suits awfully well.

You know the one problem when a band doesn’t have a Myspace page? It makes it bloody hard for a blogger to find a decent picture of them to use.

The Platform Zero EP is out now on Lostmusic Records

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It seems an apt time to mention that I will shortly be closing down the Another Form of Relief Myspace page. Times have changed, and while it was once a handy method to get in touch with bands, it’s now something I merely glance at every few months. So it’s largely a waste of a band’s time to add me there, as odds are, I’m not actually paying any attention. A full range of alternative contact methods can be found on our About page.

I should probably mention that I have one of those newfangled Twitter things too, shouldn’t I?