Elvis span a new 45 yesterday – sorry, I mean he dropped some new sounds on multiple electronic platforms. The music is a racket on which he plays everything, his ‘I knocked this up myself in the shed’ tradition that goes all the way back to Hoover Factory 40 years ago. The lyrics might just be a bitter and sorrowful swipe at those who find themselves manipulated by anti-democratic leaders. Chill out music it ain’t.
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Great song and I’m glad he’s still got it in him. I like the idea of a protest movement called No Flag which echoes the feeling of this song. Perhaps there is one, I don’t know.
I realise I am channeling my inner Melyn Bragg here, but it calls to mind Rene Magritte / Treachery of Images. If you are on the streets and hold up a flag that says “No Flag” it’ raises a little amused nerdy snort from students but it is also a more direct and straightforward general statement. I am anti-anarchist because organisation is always needed – as we have seen its the essential workers and the civil service that are always there, saving our skins when the politiicans, media and big business whip up hysteria.
Now is the time for really good administrators and logistical specialists. People that get things done without pissing around.
Here here, well said.
I really like it . Unfortunately the timing of this virus robbed me of my chance to see him at Brum Symphony Hall and robbed of us of a new album. He had booked into Abbey road for a week to complete the mixing of songs he has recorded with the Imposters.
Apparently there is another instalment on 10th July.
Early, mid eighties I really loved EC, and that stuff still stands up today Get Happy, Trust, Imperial Bedroom etc. Unfortunately I find him close to unlistenable these days and sadly failed to make it through this new one.
It’s no Oliver’s Army and sounds very Godfathers but at least he’s still having a go.