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Nationalism can be seen as an inherent evil, however pride in the culture that the country of your birth has supplied to the world, the history of certain events that have defined the way people look at you, all those can be a force for good and there is nothing quite as stirring to any age old forgotten gene as music.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
All is smoke and mirrors, all is illuminated by the brightest and most tangible of lights and yet in the darkness of ignorance, such moments of interesting and collective endeavour may be missed; the Cosmos after all can only produce so many light shows before the people get bored and seek solace in looking inward. The Cosmic Machine is such that the greater the magnitude of the shock in the sky, the less it seems to get noticed for the opportunity it may bring down here on Earth.
Political whitewash,
the washing of hands of the death
of nation, soldier
and the slaughter of innocents
and a Prime Minister in robes
and suits, with back handed
smile to the nation at all times,
no truth in this weasel words, uttered
with the prospect of the Hangman’s noose
now gone; the truth destroyed, the one
chance to put a man out to face
the barrel
of public opinion,
now just an illusion lost in dossier.
The nation, the soldier
and the million upon million
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is only to be expected that the Fin de Siecle is an period in which many superstitions and false ideas seem to gather around; the End Of The Times in which we live in, the struggle in which every human cannot comprehend the way in which they feel at odds with themselves as the status quo is ripped apart and a new future is brought into being. The trepidation is such that people will cling to the familiar to get them through the signs, omens and the theatre of change.
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Do not adjust the volume, do not let someone come into the room without your express permission and under no circumstances let them talk until the last exhale of breathe has left your body, do not engage with anything other than the stereo, do not go gently into that good night; sit down and wonder just how dull life without groups such as Albany Down in your life would be, how monotonous existence would be if The Outer Reach was just a figment of some star crossed dream.
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In a way listening to South Korea’s Dead Buttons is the perfect approach to looking at the bewildering insular way that England has decided to look upon the world; without opening your heart to the many cultures that surround us, how on Earth can we possibly grow as a nation in the same way that Dead Buttons grow upon you as their album Some Kind Of Youth opens up before the Western based audiences in which the band have arguably looked upon to augment their muse and music.
To resign and shuffle off to the peace of the farm,
leaving the sheep in charge of spraying
on the graffiti declaring pig propaganda,
is now seen as the new leadership,
the firm control and guidance required
in 21st Century
short attention span
management.
I resign in that case, I throw my towel in
to the wolves, baying for blood, baying
for the next willing victim, baying
for the sake of hearing their own howl
and piss in the wind…patience
is dead, it departed when playing games
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You know deep in your heart, that sometimes neglected muscle which used to skip along as a child when something new came along, that an album must be good if you can at the end of it and search on line to see if the artist or band is playing anywhere near you, you might even curse your luck when it clashes with a date which has been written in stone for a year or two; deep down you know you wouldn’t be missed that much at a party in your honour as you make plans to see one of the most exciting bands of the year.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To stay and chart the events, the goings on and everyday episodes of your local community takes some doing. In a world of transience, of greater exposure to the wide world, to come across someone who captures the essence of the place where they reside in song, in the lyrical poetry and the demands of Time is to applaud the endeavour and nestle with almost comfortable ease in the songs of the characters and the scenes observed.
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A journey undertaken must be done of your own free will, it is no good doing it to please others, to find yourself in the position of making it from A to B only for someone else to take the plaudits and congratulations; the journey must be yours to take and insist upon being pure. If it is completed with grace and memory intact it is then that you can honestly say to others See Me With Your Heart, for in that personal plea comes a truth that the eyes can never witness.