The 00s were an exciting, shapeshifting time for British indie, a decade in which a new wave of guitar bands were pulling the genre all over the place. But one man was not so appreciative, and that man was ex-Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder.
The year was 2008, over a decade since Wilder departed Depeche Mode and the world of mainstream music to focus on his experimental project Recoil. He was not happy at the direction the music industry had gone in the meantime and was obviously so miffed about the whole thing that he felt compelled to write a letter to Side-Line Magazine.
