The Locust’s talk show debut on Jerry Springer in 1999

Watching this broadcast was one of the three or four personal defining moments of my life.

In 1999 I had become disillusioned with the testosterone driven direction of the britpop and twee scene, and indie culture was totally dead to me by that point [two years earlier, the mayor's "Sweater Task Force" had driven cardigans from thrift and vintage stores and into commercial mall storefronts I wanted little to do with.]

Never even hearing of The Locust, JP descended upon my television one summer night and made me fall in love with music all over again.