Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@sil I was thinking of Nick Cave's earlier band, The Birthday Party, but I don't know the story either.

@sil I think people mostly used to prefer third-party apps for services for the things they did that that the official offering did not. We seem to have moved firmly into a world where people prefer unofficial apps for what they do not do.

@sil If you're using Reddit often enough to justify installing a mobile app, third party ones such as https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader still exist.

@sil Richard Hawley. Frank Turner.

@sil Nick Cave. Björk.

@sil OTOH, if I don't need to know the backstory, how about Sophie Ellis-Bextor?

@sil In most cases it's hard to be sure why the the band split up, but there's a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Our Most Brilliant Friends, about Rebecca Taylor leaving Slow Club, and it's because she wanted to be a pop star.