Try singing this but replacing “Jesus” with “Jibbles;” it’s delightful.
Looks like they started out playing hardcore and shifted to folk punk later on… good stuff!
And they were in eurovision twice before…
I llllooooooovvvvvveeeeee Laurie Penny…
If the role of art is to interrogate civilization, the Eurovision song contest asks the one question that actually matters. The one question that’s still relevant after six savage centuries of slaughter and conquest in the notionally democratic West. It’s a question that’s usually posed in the dark alleyways and disused car parks of the collective unconscious, and it goes like this:
What if, instead of killing each other, we all just got hammered and did karaoke?
Gotta post it here, cause I can’t add a new post…
Have you found Pantomime Jesus?
He’s behind you!
soz
As Cathal Coughlan died the other day I thought I’d post some of his new music
A gloriously angry evisceration of neoliberal graphboy techno-seriousness
Mister Imperator
And with Jah Wobble because fuck yeah
Bandcamp page
Some nice '90’s nostalgia (?) in those videos. Anne Doyle presenting the news about Challenger. The independent observer from Stokes Kennedy Crowley. And good tunes to boot.
In today’s installment of “feelin’ old yet…”