Greg Earle is :
"really bothered by this trend of IDM/Techno bands touring
normal venues with regular bands"
How about when the regular bands try to ape IDM/Techno bands?
For example, yesterday at NYC's Abstrakt (an experimental/hard d&b club
I guess) I was handed a flyer for the band Spiritualized. The flyer's
graphic design and language (and of course the venue where I got the
flyer) suggest that the band might be kinda IDM or something. In fact,
much of Spiritualized's marketing campaign of late has suggested such... I
recently heard their album "Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space"
(which by the way has dope package design) and boy was I duped. This stuff
is straight up Oasis wannabe crapola (IMHO, of course) and has little to
no IDM appeal. Just a warning: Beware Britpop in IDM clothing.