Bend the knee. Bow your head. Give thanks. The best album of 2019 has arrived. After the thrills, spills and dizzy delights of "Calling It", "Too Much Money" and"Mind Your Own Business" earlier this year the Holy Trinity of electro-pop/art who are, collectively, Automatic now present their debut long player and, to be blunt with [...]
After being baptised by John the Baptist, Jesus went to the wilderness to fast and pray. For forty days and forty nights he denied himself food. His body grew weak. As he did so he was confronted by Satan who attempted to use his weakness to tempt the Son of God to err from that [...]
"Rejoice greatly, O sons and daughters of the Parka King, O children of the madferit, behold thy King come unto thee: he is just and brings rock 'n' roll salvation; lowly and riding under his own steam..." Why him? Because nobody, and I do mean nobody, does it any better. Why not? Exactly. Let's forget [...]
Norman Rockwell. An artist who was, in his lifetime, dismissed by "serious" critics. His willingness to produce work for the mass market, including for the likes of Coca-Cola saw him treated with a barely concealed contempt by the people who matter...or who like to tell others how much they matter. Kenneth Williams once shared a [...]
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3, King James Bible) "...publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning [...]
"Anarchy can only be about a girl" A riot. Not exclusively a teenage riot but, instead, a riot for the age and for all ages. A blistering fusion of noise and melody, of rage and some form of romance, of chaos and beauty. In short "Bad Luck Party" is the stuff that dreams are made [...]
When I was 7 years old I had a dream. A nightmare. I lived in a small town in West Lothian, halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. A council house. There was a toilet downstairs, a sitting room and a kitchen. Two bedrooms upstairs. In my dream I am standing in front of the mirror that [...]
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