#brixton 2009

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secret door – brixton, 2009 [x]

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16 February 2017 | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to the Ebony Horse Club riding centre to celebrate the club's 21st anniversary in Brixton in London, England. The Duchess became President of Ebony Horse Club in 2009 and during her visit will meet young Brixton riders taking part in activities teaching them about horse welfare, grooming and riding. (c) Chris Jackson/Getty Images

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bring me the horizon @ brixton academy in 2009!!! 💫💞🐾

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Hablando de EL DILUVIO UNIVERSAL o 1er single de BIUTU BAMBU o CLARA ALVARADO que lanzaron 25/2/20 que visite las CATARATAS DE IGUAZU en el lado ARGENTINO o viendo la GARGANTA DEL DIABLO sobre ella bajo un DILUVIO y a cuya entrada está el puesto de comida rápida DOS HERMANAS (=localidad de SEVILLA con la fabrica de VAGINAS DE PLASTICO con MOLDE DE PORNO STAR de un matrimonio de TEXAS con lo que se hacen MILLONARIO pero también dan puestos de TRABAJO aunque sus directivos fueron condenados por robar miles de VAGINAS DE PLASTICO y donde nacio la última representante española de EUROVISION con nefasto resultado)..recuerdo que la Band boy AURYN (Talisman fantástico de LA HISTORIA INTERMINABLE con el que consiguen lo que quieren)..empezaron versionando UMBRELLA del cd GOOD GIRL GONE BAD de RIAHNNA (cuyo 1er cd fue MUSIC OF THE SUN y a la que fichó JAY_Z para ROC NATION o el marido de BEYONCE de DESTINY CHILD con la que se fotografio VIRGINIA MAESTRO cuando fue su telonera en BARCELONA aunque en MADRID no pudo ser por problemas con la logistica) y canción que versionaron también en 2008 MANIC STREET PREACHERS (que sustituyeron a KYLIE MINOGUE en LITTLE BABY NOTHING del cd GENERACION TERRORISTA que incluye CRUCIFIX KISS o MOTORCYCLE EMPTYNESS con un video con PARAGUAS y cierra CONDENADO AL ROCK N ROLL.. por la actriz porno TRACY LORDS que hacía las películas siendo MENOR... aunque KYLIE la llego a cantar en directo en BRIXTON ACADEMY cuando se fotografio 15/12/96 con Shirley MANSON de GARBAGE=BASURA..tras desaparecer su guitarrista cuando iban a promocionar cd HOLY BIBLE en EEUU en 1995 aunque utilizaron sus composiciones para el cd de 2009 AMANTES DE LA PLAGA..y los cuales en su cd THIS IS MY TRUTH, TELL ME YOURS incluyeron TSUNAMI y IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT con un video acuatico donde la gente no tiene ni boca, ni ojos ni oídos y sale un periódico con MANUEL AZAÑA saludando como PRESIDENTE DE LA II REPUBLICA al abdicar ALFONSO XIII promotor del PORNO EN ESPAÑA)..y cuando se separó AURYN autores del cd ANTI_HEROES y cd GHOST_TOWN..uno de ellos o DANI FERNANDEZ publico CD INCENDIOS , CD ENTRE LAS DUDAS Y EL AZAR (del que hizo la gira PLAN FATAL por la canción con JUANCHO DE SIDECARS o hermano de LEIVA de PEREZA..autores del cd CONTRA LAS CUERDAS cuya cancion homonima grabo con LEIVA y TODOS MIS MALES con Dani MARTIN de EL CANTO DEL LOCO e incluye FANTASIAS DELIRANTES o LA TORMENTA..otras colaboraciones fueron MI ACCIDENTE FAVORITO con LOS DESPISTAOS o ANGELES EN EL INFIERNO con MANEIRO que a continuacion le dio un ictus..siendo el siguiente single o tras PLAN FATAL la cancion SIN VERGUENZA con ARDE BOGOTA) y LA JAURIA.

Por cierto ..JAY_Z al que vi en MELBOURNE como telonero de la gira 360 de U2 también fichó a Rita ORA (nacida en PRISTINA O KOSOVO=última guerra en EUROPA con trasfondo religioso porque la mayoría son MUSULMANES )..asi que creo que se acerca la ORA de la VERDAD mientras RITA ORA O REZA jaja

En resumen sobra mucha BASURA MUSICAL O IDOLOS DE ORO Y SUS VICIOS O EXCESOS ASI COMO SUS FULANAS ya sean CRISTIANAS O MUSULMANAS y falta mucho SEXO LIBRE Y GRATIS O POR AMOR DE DIOS

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Refer to Catch up on the recording if you missed it. Thank you to everyone who joined the virtual Meet the Ombudsman and team on 15 May. At the meeting, colleagues from the Ombudsman answered questions which had been asked via the Resident Panel hub. The answers have now been posted and can be viewed on the forum. MM Response: Based on concerns raised across the internet, Richard Blakeway, the…

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The Streets in Brixton 2009

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03/05 - UK Deathfest - Vader/ Repulsion/ Origin/ Akercocke/ Benediction/ Desecration/ Leng Tch'e/ Lazarus Blackstar/ The Rotted/ Dam/ Black Sun/ Reth/ Infected Dissarray/ Ingested/ Neuroma/ Dragged Into Sunlight and Esclavage - Leeds University 05/05 - Saxon/ Doro/ Sweet Savage - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 09/05 - Leng Tch'e/ Infected Disarray/ Bonesaw/ Infant Bile/ Unspoken/ Diamanthian/ Ingested/ Pork Farm/ Endless Torment/ Visions Through Hate/ Revokation - The Varsity Wolverhampton 24/05 - George Thorogood & The Destroyers/ The Dirty Strangers - Birmingham Symphony Hall 28/05 - Lynyrd Skynyrd/ Aynsley Lyster - NIA Birmingham 02/06 - Kunt And The Gang/Bom And His Magic Drumstick/ The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank Revival - Flapper And Firkin Birmingham 09/06 - Prong/ Die So Fluid/ Hostile - Dudley JBS

12/13/14- 06 - Download Festival 2009 - Hollywood Undead/ The Blackout/ Bleed From Within/ Staind/ Killswitch Engage/ Limp Bizkit/ Korn/ Mötley Crüe/ Faith No More (3 songs) - Ripper Owens/ Five Finger Deathpunch/ DevilDriver/ Hatebreed/ Static-X/ Pendulum/ Lawnmower Deth/ Marilyn Manson/ Slipknot - Tesla/ Skin/ Black Stone Cherry/ Journey (2 songs)/ Dream Theater/ ZZ Top/ Steel Panther/ Whitesnake/ Def Leppard - Castle Donington

15/06 - Zappa Plays Zappa - Birmingham Symphony Hall

18/06 - Static-X/ The Defiled - Sheffield Corporation

24/06 - Blur/ Magistrates/ Tukazon - Wolverhampton Civic Hall

25/06 - B.B. King/ John Mayall - Birmingham NIA

26/06 - AC/DC/ The Subways/ The Answer - Wembley Stadium London

27/06 - Lenny Kravitz/ Anna F - Wolverhampton Civic Hall

30/06 - Spinal Tap/ The Folksmen - Wembley Arena London

07/07 - Oasis/ The Enemy/ Twisted Wheel/ Free Peace - Ricoh Arena Coventry

14/07 - Nine Inch Nails/ Janes Addiction/ Mew - Apollo Manchester

18/07 - KMFDM/ Trauma Pet/ Alter Red/ Leech Woman - Islington Academy London

25/07 - Testament/ Onslaught/ Warbringer/ Mindless Torture - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

01-02/08 - Sonisphere - Metallica/ Linkin Park/ Nine Inch Nails/ Limp Bizkit/ Alice In Chains/ Alien Ant Farm/ Lamb Of God/ Mastodon/ Saxon/ Anthrax/ Thunder/ Björn Again/ Killing Joke/ Heaven and Hell/ Skindred/ Soil/ Airbourne/ - Knebworth London

04/08 - Alice In Chains - The Scala London

14 - 16/08 - Bloodstock Open Air - Carcass/ Satyricon/ Entombed/ Arch Enemy/ Cradle of Filth, Amon Amarth/ Kreator/ Saxon/ Die Apokalyptischen Reiter/ The Rotted/ Abgott/ Inner Eden/ The Haunted/ Sodom/ Municipal Waste/ Candlemass/ Wolf - Catton Hall Derby

25/08 - The Offspring/ Rival Schools/ Broadway Calls - Brixton Academy London

29/08 - Bolt Thrower/ Benediction/ Beholder - Asylum Birmingham

05/09 - Love/Hate/ Ricky Warwick/ New Generation Superstars - Nottingham Rock City

08/09 - Hank Williams III/ Assjack/ Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies - Wolverhampton Civic Hall Bar

13/09 - Steel Panther - Birmingham 02 Academy 2

14/09 - Jet/ Detroit Social Club - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

18/09 - Anaal Nathrakh/ Fukpig/ Trigger The Bloodshed/ Morge Orgy - The Asylum Birmingham

22/09 - Massive Attack/ Martina Topley-Bird - 02 Academy Birmingham

23/09 - Earth Crisis/ Sworn Enemy/ Neaera/ Waking The Cadaver/ War From A Harlots Mouth/ War of Ages/ Thy Will Be Done - Eddies Rock Club Birmingham

25/09 - Metalfest (friday only) - Blaze Bayley/ Eastern Front/ Touch Stone/ Hellfire/ Warpath - Dudley JBs

26/09 - The Animals + Mick Green/ The Spencer Davis Group - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

03/10 - Insect Warfare/ Spoonful of Vicodin/ Fuck Right Off/ Contorted Hazel - Sunflower Lounge – Birmingham 08/10 - The Cult/ Aqua Nebula Oscilator - Civic Hall Wolverhampton 10/10 - Skindred/ Dead By April/ Karnivool - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 17/10 - Dizzee Rascal/ Newha Generals/ Smurfiesyco - 02 Academy – Birmingham 18/10 - Tom Jones/ Florence Rawlings - LG Arena Birmingham 23/10 - Devildriver/ Behemoth/ Suicide Silence/ Trigger The Bloodshed/ Malefice - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 24/10 - Damnation Festival 2009 - Life Of Agony/ Destruction/ Rotting Christ/ Mistress/ Charger/ Firebird/ Lock Up (sound check) - Leeds University Union 27/10 - ZZ Top/ Steel Panther - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 28/10 - Isis/ Final - Birmingham Asylum 29/10 - Cannibal Corpse/ Dying Fetus/ Annotations of An Autopsy/ Trigger The Bloodshed - The Koko – London 30/10 - Cannibal Corpse/ Dying Fetus/ Annotations of An Autopsy/ Trigger The Bloodshed - Sheffield Corporation 01/11 - Cannibal Corpse/ Dying Fetus/ Annotations of An Autopsy/ Trigger The Bloodshed - Leamington Spa - The Assembly 03/11 - Fleetwood Mac - Birmingham NIA 06/11 - Clutch/ Kylesa/ Kamchatka - 02 Academy 2 Birmingham 07/11 - Hellfire Festival (saturday only) - Saxon/ Anvil/ Benediction/ Blaze Bayley/ Beholder/ Sacred Mother Tongue/ The Rotted/ Malefice/ Ted Maul - Birmingham NEC 10/11 - Muse/ The Big Pink - Birmingham NIA 13/11 - Deep Purple/ The Crave - LG Arena – Birmingham 14/11 - Alice In Chains/ Little Fish - Manchester Academy 15/11 - Venemous Concept/ Cripple Bastards/ The Atrocity Exhibit/ All Will Suffer - Camden Underworld - London 16/11 - Alice In Chains/ Little Fish - HMV Forum – London 25/11 - Skunk Anansie/ The Chemists - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 27/11 - W.A.S.P./ The Glitterati - Dudley Jbs 29/11 - Motörhead/ The Damned/ Girlschool - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 01/12 - Alice Cooper/ Manraze - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 02/12 - The Answer/ General Fiasco/ The Black Spiders - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 03/12 - Skeletonwitch/ Goatwhore/Toxic Holocaust - Eddies Rock Club – Birmingham 05/12 - Porkfarm/ The Atrocity Exhibit/ Mindless Torture/ Decrepit Womb - The Wagon and Horses – Birmingham 06/12 - Madball/ The Rabhus/ Broken Teeth/ Encrypted/ Legions/ Losing Sight/ All Will Suffer/ Bide Your Time/ EXP - Birmingham - Eddies Rock Club 07/12 - Alice In Chains/ Healthy Minds Collapse/ Little Fish - Brixton Academy – London 08/12 - Placebo/ The Horrors/ Silversun Pickups - LG Arena – Birmingham 11/12 - Monster Magnet/ Karma To Burn/ Lions - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 12/12 - Ray Davies - Birmingham Symphony Hall 13/12 - Marilyn Manson/ Esoterica - 02 Academy Birmingham 14/12 - Them Crooked Vultures/ Sweethead - 02 Academy Birmingham 15/12 - Public Image Ltd/ The Subkicks - 02 Academy Birmingham 16/12 - Nile/ Krisiun/ Grave/ Ulcerate/ Corpus Mortale/ Hackneyed - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 17/12 - Hawkwind/ Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 20/12 - Satyricon/ Shining/ Dark Fortress/ Posthum - Islington Academy – London

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Lords Vote

On: Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted moved amendment 7, in clause 1, page 2, line 3, at end to insert— “(6) As a secondary objective to the special resolution objectives in section 4 of the Banking Act 2009, when discharging its functions in respect of the exercise of recapitalisation payments under this section, the Bank of England must observe the competitiveness and growth objective. (7) The competitiveness and growth objective is facilitating, subject to aligning with relevant international standards— (a) the international competitiveness of the economy of the United Kingdom, and (b) its growth in the medium to long term.” The House divided:

Ayes: 125 (45.6% LD, 39.2% Con, 10.4% XB, 2.4% , 1.6% UUP, 0.8% DUP) Noes: 155 (81.9% Lab, 12.9% XB, 3.9% , 1.3% PC) Absent: ~549

Likely Referenced Bill: Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]

Description: A Bill to make provision about recapitalisation costs in relation to the special resolution regime under the Banking Act 2009.

Originating house: Lords Current house: Lords Bill Stage: Report stage

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (57 votes)

Alderdice, L. Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville, B. Barker, B. Beith, L. Benjamin, B. Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, B. Bowles of Berkhamsted, B. Brinton, B. Bruce of Bennachie, L. Burt of Solihull, B. Clement-Jones, L. Dholakia, L. Doocey, B. Featherstone, B. Foster of Bath, L. Fox, L. Garden of Frognal, B. German, L. Goddard of Stockport, L. Grender, B. Hamwee, B. Harris of Richmond, B. Humphreys, B. Hussain, L. Hussein-Ece, B. Janke, B. Kramer, B. Ludford, B. Marks of Henley-on-Thames, L. McNally, L. Newby, L. Oates, L. Parminter, B. Pidgeon, B. Randerson, B. Razzall, L. Redesdale, L. Rennard, L. Russell, E. Scott of Needham Market, B. Scriven, L. Sharkey, L. Sheehan, B. Shipley, L. Smith of Newnham, B. Stoneham of Droxford, L. Storey, L. Strasburger, L. Suttie, B. Thomas of Gresford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B. Thornhill, B. Thurso, V. Tope, L. Tyler of Enfield, B. Wallace of Saltaire, L. Walmsley, B.

Conservative (49 votes)

Ahmad of Wimbledon, L. Altrincham, L. Bailey of Paddington, L. Bellamy, L. Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist, B. Borwick, L. Brady of Altrincham, L. Callanan, L. Cathcart, E. Crathorne, L. Deben, L. Effingham, E. Evans of Rainow, L. Forsyth of Drumlean, L. Foster of Oxton, B. Fuller, L. Garnier, L. Goschen, V. Hamilton of Epsom, L. Hannan of Kingsclere, L. Holmes of Richmond, L. Horam, L. Howe, E. Howell of Guildford, L. Hunt of Wirral, L. Kirkham, L. Laing of Elderslie, B. Lansley, L. Leicester, E. Liverpool, E. Meyer, B. Mobarik, B. Morris of Bolton, B. Moylan, L. Neville-Rolfe, B. Nicholson of Winterbourne, B. Noakes, B. Porter of Spalding, L. Ranger of Northwood, L. Redfern, B. Remnant, L. Roberts of Belgravia, L. Scott of Bybrook, B. Shackleton of Belgravia, B. Stedman-Scott, B. True, L. Vere of Norbiton, B. Williams of Trafford, B. Younger of Leckie, V.

Crossbench (13 votes)

Aberdare, L. Alton of Liverpool, L. Cavendish of Little Venice, B. Craigavon, V. Greenway, L. Londesborough, L. Mair, L. Meston, L. Mountevans, L. O'Loan, B. Vaux of Harrowden, L. Wellington, D. Wheatcroft, B.

Non-affiliated (3 votes)

Altmann, B. Paddick, L. Prior of Brampton, L.

Ulster Unionist Party (2 votes)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L. Empey, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (1 vote)

Morrow, L.

Noes

Labour (127 votes)

Amos, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Andrews, B. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Bakewell, B. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Berkeley, L. Blackstone, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blunkett, L. Boateng, L. Bradley, L. Brooke of Alverthorpe, L. Browne of Ladyton, L. Bryan of Partick, B. Campbell-Savours, L. Carter of Coles, L. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Chapman of Darlington, B. Coaker, L. Crawley, B. Cryer, L. Davies of Brixton, L. Donaghy, B. Dubs, L. Eatwell, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Foulkes of Cumnock, L. Gale, B. Glasman, L. Golding, B. Goldsmith, L. Griffiths of Burry Port, L. Grocott, L. Hacking, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Hanworth, V. Harris of Haringey, L. Haskel, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hayter of Kentish Town, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hendy, L. Hollick, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Hughes of Stretford, B. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Jones, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Lennie, L. Leong, L. Levy, L. Liddle, L. Lipsey, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Livermore, L. Mallalieu, B. Mandelson, L. Mann, L. McConnell of Glenscorrodale, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Mendelsohn, L. Merron, B. Mitchell, L. Monks, L. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Osamor, B. Parekh, L. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Prosser, B. Quin, B. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Rebuck, B. Reid of Cardowan, L. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Rooker, L. Royall of Blaisdon, B. Sahota, L. Sawyer, L. Shamash, L. Sherlock, B. Sikka, L. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Cluny, B. Smith of Gilmorehill, B. Snape, L. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Stevenson of Balmacara, L. Symons of Vernham Dean, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Thornton, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Watts, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Whitty, L. Wilcox of Newport, B. Winston, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Wood of Anfield, L. Woodley, L.

Crossbench (20 votes)

Bew, L. Burns, L. Carlile of Berriew, L. Clancarty, E. Colville of Culross, V. Coussins, B. Craig of Radley, L. Cromwell, L. D'Souza, B. Freyberg, L. Hampton, L. Hogan-Howe, L. Jay of Ewelme, L. Loomba, L. Macdonald of River Glaven, L. Macpherson of Earl's Court, L. Meacher, B. O'Neill of Bengarve, B. Stuart of Edgbaston, B. Watkins of Tavistock, B.

Non-affiliated (6 votes)

Austin of Dudley, L. Hoey, B. Mackenzie of Framwellgate, L. Patel of Bradford, L. Truscott, L. Uddin, B.

Plaid Cymru (2 votes)

Smith of Llanfaes, B. Wigley, L.

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Memories, Facebook, and The Clash

It seems Facebook still has the odd use, apart from keeping in touch with family and friends who still use it. I popped in late last night, and it told me I had memories on this day. It seems the 20th of October has been a day on which I’ve often posted in the past, because there were several. But the one that really caught my eye was this one:

15 years ago, it tells me, in 2009, I wrote:

Jason Ringenberg doing The Clash’s ‘Ivan Meets Gl Joe’: a thing of rare beauty. Spotify URI: http://is.gd/4Hcr7.

Now that’s quite telling, in several ways. First of all, remember the is.gd URL shortener? Remember URL shorteners that aren’t t.co?

Also, I haven’t used Spotify in a long time, being a happy Apple Music subscriber. But that doesn’t matter. What’s really weird is that I have absolutely no memory of Jason (out of Jason & the Scorchers, as I’m sure you know) doing any Clash song, much less a surprising choice of Sandinista album track.1 And back then was probably still in the time when was listening to Jason quite a lot.

Obviously I quickly searched for it on Apple Music. To find that it’s part of an album. Not one by Jason, though. The Sandinista! Project2 is a compilation album of covers of the entirety of Sandinista by different artists.

Why was I not told such a thing existed?

Of course, it’s entirely possible that I was told of it, one way or another. Some passing mention, a mental note, quickly forgotten… maybe it was mentioned in Jason’s newsletter or some such.

I mean, it’s not a totally off the wall idea. It’s subtitled ‘A Tribute to The Clash’, and I’ve had or listened to things like it before. I had something called London Booted once, which was sort of techno-ish covers of some or all of the tracks from London Calling. And I remember listening to a reggae version of that album, or tracks from it, at least.

But this is every track on what is famously a triple album. Yes, including ‘Career Opportunities’ (though not, to be fair, ‘Blowing in the Guns of Brixton’). And the great thing about it is, almost no track is a carbon copy of the original. We get jazz instrumentals, ska versions, rocked-up versions of ones The Clash took slowly, and everything in between. Most of the performers are little known, or unknown, to me a least. But we get Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Wreckless Eric, The Coal Porters, and of course the aforementioned former Scorcher.

It is really, really good. Highly recommended if you’re a fan, and even if you’re not, I imagine you’ll find something to enjoy. Go on, find it on your favourite service here.

Incidentally, I love that the label it’s on is called 00:02:59 Records. ‘The band went in/And knocked them dead/In two minutes fifty-nine,’ as ‘Hitsville UK’ says.3

Not that Jason being a fan would be in the least surpassing. ↩︎

I don’t remember the the exclamation mark being part of the title. But the Wikipedia article renders it that way, and indeed, there is an exclamation mark right there on the cover. Still, I don’t think we wrote it that way back in the day. ↩︎

Katrina’s version runs to 3:44, but then the original is 4:22 or so. ↩︎

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Alienation and Exploitation

Alienation and Exploitation 

Within the first 10 minutes, the exploitation of individuals and its bodily horrors resulting from capitalism are ever-present in Neil Blomkamp’s 2009 sci-fi film District 9. Though the film engages in social commentary, it participates in the xenophobic treatment of Black Nigerians who are given the roles of prostitutes and gangsters. These depictions reify associations of Blackness with otherness. The film further engages in a controversial representation of Nigerian religion called “muti,” which is essentially the idea that by ingesting alien body parts, individuals would inherit the power of the aliens. As Nigerians are depicted eating alien flesh in a primitive manner, Blomkamp engages in a view of African religion as a crude system. It is also disheartening that the film is set in Johannesburg, South Africa, but the protagonist is a white male. It instead exploits the history of South Africa and dehumanizes Black characters. 

In this film, Blomkamop envisions an imaginary world where aliens are rescued from their mothership by humans. Due to their physical distinctiveness, the aliens are moved into militarized slums, alluding to systems of segregation and relocation. The film introduces Wikus Van de Merwe, a head operative for relocating aliens in MNU from District 9 to District 10 because the residents of Johannesburg want to eliminate the presence of aliens. The aliens forced into an unforgiving and unfriendly world are locked in a struggle for survival, where human gangs rip off the aliens for cat food in exchange for their weapons. 

What stood out to me was the scene in which Christopher is heartbroken upon witnessing how MNU’s genetic research program treats other aliens or what they consider “prawns” for their resemblance to the sea creature. MNU’s concern in redefining the status of humans by engaging in cruel experimental practices reveals capitalist unethical treatment of bodies as expendable and abusable for profit. With these practices, I drew a parallel between District 9 and Sorry to Bother You in its use of science fiction to force viewers to consider the ethics of capitalist systems that benefit white individuals to the detriment of people of color.

The dehumanization of the relocation plan forces the aliens to revolt, realizing that they are the new underclass. This awareness echoes Kibwe Tavares's Robots of Brixton, which captures robot police confronting robot protestors. These graphic scenes highlight how technology takes us back to how humans behave. In District 9, technology plays a pivotal role for MNU, which relies on Wiku’s transformation to operate alien weaponry, which only aliens can engage. According to Octavia Butler, maybe humans are not smart enough to control the technologies we create. We must not be naive in thinking that AI technological developments will always be in our favor simply because we say so. 

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2024

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# = book club

books

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story, Nathan Thrall (2023)#

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff) (1866)

Restless, William Boyd (2007)#

Ablutions, Patrick deWitt (2012)

The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi (trans. Elena Pala) (2021)

Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (2023)#

The Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (1983)

The Twilight Word, Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann) (2023)

Darryl, Jackie Ess (2021)

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan (2024)

Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith (2004)#

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, Amy Key (2023)

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (2021)

A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker (2004)

Jesus' Son, Dennis Johnson (2012)#

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Irvine Welsh (1996)

Sleepless, Marie Darrieussecq (trans. Penny Hueston) (2023)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sachs (1985)#

The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder) (1994)

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?, Claire Dederer (2023)

Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back, Torsten Bell (2024)

Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr. (1978)#

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel) (2007)

Foster, Claire Keegan (2010)

The Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)

Regeneration, Pat Barker (1991)

The Secret Life of John Le Carré, Adam Sisman (2023)

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)+

Mothering Sunday, Graham Swift (2016)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson (1971)

Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux (trans. Tanya Leslie) (1991)

films

Sound of Metal (2019)

Saltburn (2023)

The Two Popes (2019)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Past Lives (2023)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)+

If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)

Searching for Sugarman (2012)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Informant (2009)

Force Majeure (2014)

Paterson (2016)

Anyone But You (2023)

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

22 Jump Street (2014)+

Before Sunrise (1995)

Before Sunset (2004)

Before Midnight (2013)

Arrival (2016)

Emily the Criminal (2022)

Hit Man (2023)

Shoplifters (2018)

About Time (2013)+

Roman Holiday (1953)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Gladiator (2000)+

American Fiction (2023)

The Holiday (2006)+

Maurice (1987)

albums

'Stretch for the Stars' (EP), Joshua Idehen (2023)

'Shiver' (EP), The Libertines (2024)

'the record', boygenius (2023)

'Wall of Eyes', The Smile (2024)

'Promises', Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

'Where's My Utopia?', Yard Act (2023)

'Cold Fact', Rodriquez (1970)

'Coming from Reality', Rodriquez (1971)

'What Now', Brittany Howard (2024)

'Mountainhead', Everything Everything (2024)

'This Ain't the Way You Go Out', Lucy Rose (2024)

'Blue', Joni Mitchell (1971)

'A Dream Is All We Know', The Lemon Twigs (2024)

'Romance', Fontaines D.C. (2024)

'Samurai', Lupe Fiasco (2024)

'This Could Be Texas', English Teacher (2024)

'Small Changes', Michael Kiwanuka (2024)

exhibitions

'Time is Out of Joint', National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)

'Philip Guston', Tate Modern

'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990', Tate Britain

'Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize', National Portrait Gallery

'The Cult of Beauty', Wellcome Collection

'Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider', Tate Modern

Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art New York

Francis Bacon: Human Presence, National Portrait Gallery

live music

Ben L'Oncle Soul, Alcazar Live

Yard Act, Rough Trade East

Romy, Roundhouse

Dan Shake / Pretty Girl, Phonox

Lapsley, Moth Club

Berlioz, Brixton Academy

theatre

The Cherry Orchard, Donmar Warehouse

Dr Strangelove, Noel Coward Theatre

restaurants

Perilla, Stoke Newington

Felice a Testaccio, Rome

Salumeria Con Cucina Roscioli, Rome

Zahter, Carnaby Street

Beckford Inn, Tewksbury

Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth+

Ottolenghi, Spitalfields+

Dalla Terra, Covent Garden

Faros, Soho

Little House, Balham

Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Tewkesbury

Pot Luck Club, Cape Town

Scala Pasta / Bar, Cape Town

La Colombe, Constantia

El Burro, Cape Town

Franks Corner, Franschhoek

The Girl's On The Square, Wilderness

Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape

Nest, Knysna

Maillard Baking Co, Knysna

Sirocco, Knysna

Coral, Mauritius

Kot Nou, Mauritius

Lemongrass, Mauritius

Le Benetier, Mauritius

Le Chamarel, Mauritius

Muang Thai, Camden

thirty7, Covent Garden

Morito, Hackney+

Nobu, Shoreditch+

Botanica Hall, Clapham Junction

Devonshire Terrace, Liverpool Street

Brutto, Farringdon

St John (bar), Smithfield

Mechela, Seville

Mamarracha, Seville

Caminata, Balham (x2)

Pasha Mangal, Balham (x2)

Hawksmoor, Air Street+

Dishoom, King's Cross

Som Saa, Spitalfields

180 House, The Strand

Three Uncles, Brixton (x2)

Balham Social, (...)Balham

The Duke of Malborough, Woodstock

The Perch, Binsey

Megan's on the Hill, Balham

Le Bab, Covent Garden

Well Street Pizza, Hackney

Mele e Pere, Soho+

Five The Beach, Clevedon

Ascough's Bistro, Market Harborough

The Inn at Freshford, Freshford

The Bird, Bath

Bussia, Amsterdam+

Bar Bouche, Amsterdam

Blue Fig, Balham

Flesh & Buns, Covent Garden+

Roka, Canary Wharf

Smoking Goat, Shoreditch

Boucherie West Village, Manhattan

Bagels & Schmear, Manhattan

Fette Sau, Brooklyn

Cosme, Manhattan

Broad Nosh Bagels, Manhattan

Estela, Manhattan

Mirabella, Miami Beach

Cubata, Miami

Crispin, Spitalfields

MCR Restaurant and Bar, Holborn

Fumo, Covent Garden

Cornus, Belgravia

Joro, Sheffield

Timmy Green, Victoria

Serata Hall, Old Street

The Carpenters Arms, Burford

Milk, Balham (x3)

FIRIN, King's Cross

Barraca da Chiquita, Rio de Janeiro

podcasts

Kermode & Mayo's Take+

The Russell Brand Podcast (Radio 2 / Audioboom / XFM)+

The News Agents+

The News Meeting+

Today in Focus+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Joel Golby's Book Club

Desert Island Discs+

Off Menu

Young Again+

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Conversations with Tyler

Freakanomics Radio

Double Jeopardy

The Lawyer Podcast

80,000 Hours

tv

Mr Bates v The Post Office (limited series)

The Traitors (series 2)

Six Nations: Full Contact (limited series)

One Day (limited series)

Gossip Girl (series 1-4)

Ripley (limited series)

Kin (series 1)

Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip (series 1)

America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (limited series)

Industry (series 3)

Better Call Saul (series 1-5)+

talks

'Judges, Politics, and the Public: A Judge’s View from Inside Westminster' by Sir Nicholas Green, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

'Beer, bribes, and brawling: an accurate representation of elections in Victorian England?' by Nigel Siesage, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Rome

South Africa (Cape Town, Franschhoek, Wilderness, Pumba Game Reserve, Knysna)

Mauritius

Seville

Algarve (work)

Amsterdam

New York

Miami (work)

[emiledekeyser]

De dualiteit van Stranger in My Own Skin

Als kind was ik een voetbalfreak. Ik kende alle uitslagen van het WK 2002 uit het hoofd, kon alle spelers van Senegal opsommen en werd betoverd toen ik voor het eerst een match van AA Gent in het Jules Ottenstadion bijwoonde. Toen ik ouder werd, raakte ik even obsessief into muziek. Peter Doherty's plaat Grace/Wastelands uit 2009 betoverde me als veertienjarige even hard als De Gantoise zien spelen als zesjarige.

Ik zag Peter voor het eerst op de Lokerse Feesten in datzelfde jaar. Gewapend met enkel een gitaar palmde hij de hele festivalweide in. Het was de start van een intense fanboy-reis waarop ik Doherty 26x live zag, zowel met Babyshambles en The Libertines als volledig solo en met verschillende begeleidingsbands. Ik trok als 18-jarige alleen naar Londen voor Babyshambles in Brixton Academy, won via Studio Brussel tickets voor Babyshambles in Parijs, overleefde het reünieconcert van The Libertines in Hyde Park en zag hoe hij Le Bataclan heropende 1 jaar na de aanslagen. Al was het ultieme full-circle moment misschien wel die keer dat ik Doherty verving tijdens Fuck Forever toen hij er na een halfuur de brui aangaf in Lille.

Want ja, Pete heeft een reputatie. Zijn drugsproblematiek is welbekend, en wat liveoptredens betreft, komt hij ofwel niet ofwel veel te laat opdagen, en als hij er wonder boven wonder toch geraakt is, dan is hij too wasted to perform. Persoonlijk maakte ik dat 3x op 26 mee. Dat is drie keer te veel, maar wel een pak minder dan de perceptie doet vermoeden. Paradoxaal genoeg is het ook net die onvoorspelbaarheid wat optredens van Doherty zo spannend maakt. Er gebeurt altijd wel iets en die opwinding in woorden uitdrukken, is een serieuze opgave. En eigenlijk heb ik ook weinig zin om te lang achter die woorden te zoeken. De kern van de zaak is dat er lange tijd geen enkele andere artiest zo'n grote smile op mijn gezicht kon toveren als Peter Doherty.

Het is die opwinding die ik mis in de nieuwe documentaire Stranger in My Own Skin. In zoverre dat ik me afvraag wat de film wil zijn: een carrière-overzicht of het portret van een (ex-)drugsverslaafde?

Muziekdocumentaire Katia deVidas (tevens de echtgenote van Peter Doherty) hanteert een veelgebruikt trucje als leidraad doorheen de film: een tijdlijn van de Doherty back-catalogue en enkele willekeurige gebeurtenissen. Op die manier worden er hoofdstukken gecreëerd, maar omdat de beelden en verhalen amper inzoomen op die onderverdeling schiet de tijdlijn eigenlijk tekort.

Als je de aantrekkingskracht van het artistiek fenomeen Peter Doherty en de hectiek van het circus goed wil kaderen, moet je aan de slag gaan met livemateriaal. Dat beeldmateriaal heeft deVidas ter beschikking, maar ze doet er amper iets mee. Als het een muziekdocumentaire wil zijn, dan miste ik dus the thrill of it all. Veel iconische optredens komen niet aan bod, denk maar aan de heropening van Le Bataclan of het optreden by candlelight met Carl Barât in Hackney. Om nog maar te zwijgen van het échte Libertines-reünieconcert in Hyde Park.

Overigens: de ochtend na dat concert stond Babyshambles op Rock Werchter 2014 geprogrammeerd als opener van de main stage. Recht van een headlinetriomf in de thuisstad naar een openingsslot op een Belgisch festival. Die beelden had ik graag gezien, het had de perfecte weergave van de hectiek van het Doherty-circus kunnen zijn. Al was de scène waarop Pete niet in Parijs raakt door een stilstaande trein een van de betere in de film.

Portret van een (ex-)verslaafde De lukraak gekozen leidraad van alle Doherty-releases zet je eigenlijk op het verkeerde spoor. Meer dan een muziekdocumentaire lijkt Stranger in My Own Skin vooral het portret te willen weergeven van een drugsverslaafd genie, een poète maudit. De heroïnescènes - zowel het injecteren zelf als de 'roes' die erop volgt - zijn ongezien expliciet. Het maakt van de film a hard watch.

Op sommige momenten lijkt het wel een film te zijn die gemaakt is om te tonen in afkickcentra. En dat is zeker een goed en valabel uitgangspunt. Pete zien wegkwijnen in een half kraakpand is een triestig zicht, maar wel de meest effectieve antidrugcampagne die je kan bedenken.

En toch schiet de film hier ook tekort door het gebrek aan context. De kijker moet de losse eindjes zelf aan elkaar knopen. Wat bijvoorbeeld ontbreekt zijn getuigenissen van de inner circle: hoe was het om met Peter Doherty te werken op die momenten? Mik Whitnall, Graham Coxon en Mick Jones hinten er kort naar, maar het blijft te oppervlakkig.

Amy Winehouse passeert tweemaal (ze woont een optreden bij en op een veiling wordt een schilderij van haar en Pete verkocht voor een monsterbedrag), maar de parallel met haar situatie moet je zelf maken. Haar dood was nochtans wel een wake-up-call in Doherty-kringen, alleen zou het nog jaren duren vooraleer hij kon afkicken.

De vertroebelde relatie met zijn ouders is nog zo'n 'gemiste kans'. Het had geholpen mocht dit al vroeger in de documentaire aan bod gekomen zijn. Dan was die wiedergutmachung in het Koninklijk Circus in Brussel (en dus niet Duitsland!) - Peter Doherty Senior die What a Waster komt meezingen en mama Jackie Doherty die het podium komt opgewandeld met een verjaardagstaart - nog meer binnengekomen. Helaas kwam het fragment wat uit het niks en leek het er in allerijl bijgesmeten te zijn.

Anfield Road Ach, het was heus niet allemaal kommer en kwel. De beste scène was toen Doherty een vergelijking maakte tussen voetbal en muziek. Als kind had hij in de jaren '80 een aantal matchen van Liverpool op Anfield Road bijgewoond. Hij had toen meer oog voor de extatische mensenmassa op de staantribunes dan voor het spel. Beelden uit het stadion werden naast even chaotische concertbeelden van Babyshambles geplakt, en Doherty vertelde dat hij die thrill die hij op Anfield Road voelde, wou vertalen in zijn muziek. Even voelde ik de opwinding. Tegelijk werd ook duidelijk waarom ik 14 jaar geleden via Doherty van voetbal into muziek was geraakt.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.25 (after 1920)

1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. 1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. 1932 – George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. 1944 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. 1944 – World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. 1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. 1949 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. 1968 – A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. 1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. 1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. 1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. 1990 – The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. 1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. 1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. 1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland. 2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. 2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. 2010 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. 2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

[ajoytobeheld]

Support dates with The Cribs

September 1st, 2009

UPDATED: NOW INCLUDES LONDON SUPPORT SHOW WITH THE CRIBS.

It is a great honour to announce that we have been asked by the Cribs to support them in some massive, triumphant end of year shows.

Wednesday 2 December Birmingham o2 Academy Thursday 3 December London Brixton Academy Saturday 5 December Doncaster Dome Sunday 6 December Edinburgh Corn Exchange

Tickets at www.gigsandtours.com or www.gigsinscotland.com.

This has been a big year for Los Campesinos! and this seems the perfect icing on the cake for us. I am so excited to do these shows that I was even prepared to sell my My Bloody Valentine ATP tickets. But it’s not every day you get the chance to live Sean Smith’s dream and play at Birmingham O2 Academy, and it is a true privilege to be invited to do so with a band as big and as good as the Cribs. Thank you very much.

While on a domestic tip, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind those at home of our October UK tour (All shows with Copy Haho and Sparky Deathcap)

WED 21 OCT Kasbah, Coventry 14+

THURS 22 OCT Joiners, Southampton 14+

FRI 23 OCT Phoenix, Exeter 14+ (01392 263518)

SAT 24 OCT The Gate, Cardiff 14+ (Also with Dananananaykroyd, Munch Munch and Internet Forever)

MON 26 OCT  Deaf Institute, Manchester14+

TUE 27 OCT University, Newcastle 14+

WED 28 OCT Garage, London 14+

THU 29 OCT Zodiac, Oxford All Ages (Under 14s to be accompanied by an adult)

FRI 30 OCT Cockpit, Leeds14+

SAT 31 OCT King Tut’s, Glasgow 18+

These are, in most cases, reasonably small gigs and those in, for example, London, Manchester and Glasgow are really close to selling out, so I’d recommend buying tickets soon to ensure nobody’s disappointed. By now I am very excited to finally be playing shows in the UK again and to get material from our forthcoming record out and heard. Thank you for reading.

[rad-review-of-gigs]

Prodigy

Brixton Academy, 22.12.2017

Always speeding, never reversing, like unbridled, joystick mayhem

Six number one albums to the good, lurid dystopia has rarely been as thrilling as The Prodigy and the Academy is crackling with anticipation as the band finally steps out under the stage's roving searchlights. Vocalist Keith Flint, still wilfully perverse with mohican and black eye liner,  prowls the stage in an adolescent slouch, like an indolent hyena scavenging off 1997's Fat of the Land, braces dangling torpidly by his knees. Alongside him the avowedly macho MC Maxim stokes all the 'hot and sweaty warriors on the floor".

Everyone hopes the music will change their picture. However the opening salvos, though reassuringly demented, are a confusion of noise that belie the guile of the group's quarter of a century of studio samplings. 'Wild Frontier' stands alone in this briny chaos as having some shape and coherence. 2009's 'Omen' was first up and fortunately the writing is not on the wall, as the set gradually mutates into the kind of shamanistic experience that avid clubbers yearn for. Whether this is through being bludgeoned, as promised, into another dimension or the sound has simply been tweaked down a notch, The Prodigy's timeworn breakneck and careering fusion of punk and techno, reminiscent of a video game carjack, is soon in cruise control. 

The band shrewdly dispenses with a truncated  'Firestarter' early on, as if to say you're here to live this gig not just wait for an anthem, and from that point the malevolent hedonism assumes its distinctive form. 

A delighted crowd parties frenziedly to the ominous, snarling 'Breathe' and there is barely a moment to exhale before Rob Holliday, a prototype Mick Jones inhabiting the corner of the stage, outs the heavy guitar riff of 'Voodoo People', Other gems are the pounding 'Get Your Fight On' and recent single 'Need Some 1'. After the ragga of 'Poison' the rapturous adulation almost kisses the ceiling. So Maxim hunkers the flock, like the raving crab of Fat Of The Land's iconic album cover, for a wash in the ethereal, levantine interlude inside 'Smack My Bitch Up', before erupting it from the sea bed for a final burst of hysteria.

The encore is a mission back through time to the group's undistilled dance roots with club classic, 'No Good' and the reggae-infused 'Out of Space'. As The Prodigy vanish in the sulphurous cloud of dry ice the audience is left to float alone the chorus of  "I'm gonna send you to outer space to find another race."

Suitably skewed with its tilted floor, the Brixton Academy is sold out for three nights of this explosive delirium and, in an era of snowballing institutional decay and social entropy, the punk spirit of The Prodigy could be the zeitgeist once more and ensures the event is more than an outmoded and corroded panto. "I've got the poison, the remedy, the rhythmical remedy" screams Maxim. Music indeed for a jilted generation.

Words: Adrian Cross

Photos: Richard Gray

[itsrattysworld]

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