Re: Article: Morrissey on the death of Margaret Thatcher, the press - statement at TT
You're very kind. Compliments are good, but complaints and insults equally appreciated. I'll give you a link by PM to a temporary platform which will soon vanish. Don't share it yet. LOL! Our cover's blown, was blown in E'bro after we helped bring down a Cardinal, but we're working on security for our families for as long as the superinjuctions last, before the press and helicopter paparazzi searchlights start in earnest.
Not a blog, not a book, what the Germans call a Gesamtkunstwerk [total art work] It's Riverdance + The Grand Inquisitor + Kraftwerk + The Knife. Moz gets a brief look-in but he's a bit 'obvious', though increasingly funny as a stand-up comic interviewee, publisher of 'press statements' if no longer a cutting-edge musical and lyrical artist. It might not happen, we might change our minds, or it might be the greatest artwork of the C20/C21st. We'll see!
And it's not just 'me', we're a radical political art collective who use the name of a real-life Opus Dei MI5/CIA 'spook' as our press/P.R person just to annoy him. He was the 'big swinging dick' at our school, so it's revenge and we've dared him to sue us, but he won't. OR, maybe he's part of it, the mastermind? We'll see....we know everything about him as it's a "Why do you come here. You had to sneak into my room 'just' to read my diary "It was just to see, just to see" (All the things you knew I'd written about you" situation." Or, Our 'leader' is a seriously dangerous sociopath and psychopath who everyone is well advised to keep clear of, as his side-kick Sister Sharon 'Uma' McCormick kill-bills anyone who crosses him. He looks like George Clooney and Wayne Rooney but his name is....t.b.c.
OR: this is just one long-winded piss take for no reason other than '4 teh lulz' ...it was ever thus!
Shaking The Habitual - The Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F37Yg17-JQ
"....we didn't plan to make another album, we just wanted to do something, but had to find a purpose..yes, music can be so meaningless..we had to find the last..we approached each other through books, through the words of others..we get our langauge back through the language of others and. we played and we played and we played and we played..to let go of what we already knew about music and explore what we didnt know... letting go..what we do is political ..that should be impossible to misunderstand ...we want to question 'The Knife'...we started improvising to find something less predictable...yes, we made up our own sound sources, we used to make up home made instruments or we played traditional instruments in non-traditional ways and tried to find no-ntraditional ways of creating traditional sounds.... we wanted to find a room where all sounds are just as odd or just as normal, where the border between normal and strange is erased...like studies...such as working your way to the core of an instrument to find out its potential.. ..like making a bedspring sound like a voice or a voice sound like a bedspring..the lyrics are inspired by the 70s protest songs from our childhood or maybe our record poses the question "what can a protest song be today?"..we felt too safe behind the masks, the masks had become an image of 'The Knife', something that had meant to question identity and fame became a commercial product, an institution....we asked our friends and lovers to help us..letting others contribute their knowledge, viewing the process as the creation of a collective...through our community we felt less alone, we felt safe enough to let our old mask fall..i think there are no real 'us',behind the masks are other masks...but there are ways to get to know us through the music..we are people trying to do something we haven't done before..to not reproduce identities that are expected from us...yes, we are privileged, we can afford to fight commercial homogenization..the ideals reproduded in the extreme hierarchical and conservative structures that the music industry constitutes... that is why the process has become so important to us...creating a space in which we want to exist..once you stop caring about rule or.. to question the function of popular music..to experiment with time to make music that demands people's time and consciousness ...that is impossible to consume in the quick and easy way..we use our lyrics to not be misunderstood, we longing for something else..like a more bearable world..i think music can be a tool to create movements..a room where everything is possible..transformation as a physical feeling.... in our lyrics we criticise, for example the institution of the Royal Family which is a symbol for the illusion in which the world is embedded or the construction of the Nuclear Family an institution that conserves inequality injustice and exclusion... the challenge is to live in live in solidarity beyond nuclear families, nations and economical unions..it's time to move to fall to fly .."then I got the urge for penetration.."
checking inbox obsessively for link.
watched the video.
interesting.
i'm into the exploration of sonic manipulations of objects of varying material and their resonating frequencies.
frequencies, in general fascinate me endlessly.
music is energy. vibration. it has the ability to effect the vibrations of our own energy so dramatically.
i think to fail to explore it in the scientific, socio-political, and artistic realms, (both high and low, whatever that would even mean anymore...) would be to fail as the creators of something far more significant, to all life forms, than we, as it's creators, even possess the ability to comprehend.
art school. hahaha!
at least i was on scholarship.
nobody wasted any money on it.
it hasn't failed me, though.
i manage a painter of world class caliber and live with a music and theatrical producer....my past incarnations have mostly been on stage either dramatically or my set designs, film and telly.
but once upon a time, i sat first chair percussion, (xylophone, glockenspiel, marimba, kettle, bass, snare, cymbals..whatever they threw in my pit! i only had a few beats between notes for movement down the line to the next instrument!)
i started on piano, and will always play, when there is one about.
i mostly sit at this keyboard. i am frequently interrupted by interjections of the mundane, domestic, and biological, the latter in the shape of a little blonde ape who is growing evermore verbal daily!
tiny humans, with all their possibilities and resources intact and everything left to discover!
they are definitely amusing!
last night i stayed up til way too late laughing until i was in tears at the blog linked in "What did make you smile today",
Reasons My Son Is Crying
reading this text above from The Interview made me think of what it must've been like to pioneer jazz.
ignoring rules and boundaries.
we've been in deep conversation here, of late, about the disregard of westernised time signatures, and integration of non-traditional signatures into something less meandering than what you normally get landed with when you venture into the margins of music.
breaking the non-structured rules and integrating something a bit more structured.
we're deeply philosophical about sound round here.
which, at this moment, in Salford, I can report the usual sirens every few minutes, the grinding noise of a drilled screw bottoming out in it's destination in the wall the other side of ours, a loud, Nigerian conversation, (apparently about something rather hilarious),
and the sound of cars and trucks passing outside, all just below the pitch perfect humming of super mario by the four year old at the computer screen.
sounds abound!
I was watching some video a few months back of bits of a movie from a group from sweden, i think.
i can't recall what the movie was called, but the group go around accosting people in public with impromptu performances with everyday objects being used to make the music.
oh, balls, what were they called.....
i'll be back.
i want to check my inbox.