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‘Indie’ cross-over composers and their Polish avant-garde heroes come together in a program about musical inheritance. The "Indies & Idols" program is an excellent example of artistic director Richard Tognetti’s flair for making a unified narrative out of the apparently eclectic. In this case - a meeting of the heroes of the Polish avant-garde with some contemporary ‘indie’ cross-over artists who admire them.Tognetti thinks that the contemporary composers of "Indies & Idols" – Jonny Greenwood, Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner – are the inheritors of what has been a “slow-motion response” to the upheavals of Modernism. This generation that I’m part of, and younger, have all responded to Modernism in a sort of slow dance, if you like”, he says. “It’s taken a long time.

‘Indie’ cross-over composers and their Polish avant-garde heroes come together in a program about musical inheritance. The "Indies & Idols" program is an excellent example of artistic director Richard Tognetti’s flair for making a unified narrative out of the apparently eclectic. In this case - a meeting of the heroes of the Polish avant-garde with some contemporary ‘indie’ cross-over artists who admire them.Tognetti thinks that the contemporary composers of "Indies & Idols" – Jonny Greenwood, Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner – are the inheritors of what has been a “slow-motion response” to the upheavals of Modernism. This generation that I’m part of, and younger, have all responded to Modernism in a sort of slow dance, if you like”, he says. “It’s taken a long time.

2007 saw The Hoosiers explode upon an unsuspecting public with their debut album "The Trick To Life", which reached the top of the album charts and spawned the indie-pop classics 'Worried About Ray' and 'Goodbye Mr A', which still pack out indie dance floors a decade later. Never released on vinyl, the band will be selling a new limited edition vinyl pressing and expanded edition of their debut when they undertake a huge UK tour that will see them play the album in it's entirety, something they've never done before. The multi-platinum success of their debut album raised huge expectations for it's follow-up, not least at The Hoosiers' record label. The prophetically titled "The Illusion of Safety" was, all the band agree, a troubled project from the start. Irwin suggests, "The word 'hit' is substituted for 'good'. There's an art to writing under those conditions, but it wasn't one that worked for us. It exacts a toll on too many writers. You give up too much if you do that. "