Well, we're not going to lash out on Maggie Tatcher and her politics, let's concentrate on her influence on the music scene in the UK and OMG she was very good at that !
There's quite an article in Coilhouse about misoginy in Industrial music and it really does call your attention as we take too many things for granted and while some attitudes from bands can be taken for simple provocation, the article points out most of what was once a scene build on boldness and adventurous thinking is now very much only a pile up of dangerous cliches and aggressive sexism.
It starts out like yet another rock music documentary where the band obviously believes he's the greatest thing since The Beatles but you soon cannot help to feel something is about to burst open...
And it does. Rebel Scum is an extraordinary documentary that begins with a Bible Belt punk band called "The Dirty Works" performing and then, suddenly, out of nowhere, his singer Christopher Scum starts to violently hit himself on the forefront with the microphone and obviously starts to bleed intensively while continuing to sing...You know this is not going to be an average movie...
Sabina England, multimedia artist, poet, filmmaker (see her excellent short movie on the left hand side) and playwrighter is going to hate me for this, but under her punk stance and fierce eyes that say fuck-you-world she's in fact a deeply romantic artist and her work embodies all the hopes, sorrows, violence, prejudice, desires, lust and envies, macaber angles and sunny moments that we all have inside ourselves when we haven't been eaten out alive and spit out on the pavement by The System.
I like the Tin Tings. I mean, as a pop band they do have a few cool tunes one can whistle, they do have a few catchy chorus and no doubt they can make a crowd having fun.
Thanx to the amazing Network Awesome, we bumped into a great documentary about Sufism, its music, the questions it raises and the emotions it surely delivers.
