Month: April 2013
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An old-fashioned Chart Ding Dong
Well the whole saga of That Woman’s Funeral continues, with not only Glenda the Good Witch speaking and poking the hagiographic bubble, but 8 million for her funeral in the midst of austerity? When the likes of Atlee and Bevan (invented that NHS thing, you might not have heard of it?) never had a funeral…
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Molly Crabapple’s Shell Game
Love these painting about the uprisings of 2011 by Molly Crabapple in an exhibition called ‘Shell Game’. It’s unusual to have artists working with political themes, and to do it so well, like a 21st century Hogarth…as she described it: “It was the year when everyone sat down in the main squares of their cities…
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Fleetwood Mac – Rosebud
Fleetwood Mac tends to be seen as the antithesis of punk, new age, floaty, AOR rockers. This belies the fact that not only did they come from very raw blues, they could actually rock out like the best of them, and even the ‘floaty’ songs were very different live. Even a happy ‘Mac seemed quite…
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Thatcher’s Dead Acid Party
Another few songs if you’re arranging a ‘Tramp The Dirt Down‘ Maggie’s Dead Party – have one on me! Pete Wylie on the money ‘The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies’ – getting in early a few years back. Good tune too. And to those whining that ‘she’s not that bad really’, about her ‘economic miracle‘…
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Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
The ‘revisionist’ history starts here, like with her evil buddy Reagan, but good news that Thatcher is dead. Enjoy your stay in hell. For those who don’t know who Thatcher was, or understand the hate, well, you need to do some research on how she intentionally destroyed the North to get rid of the unions,…