C's flotsam 'n' jetsam

Dec 3 ’08
“Test Department were incredibly masculine … and we were extremely feminine. We were about romance, about a Britain that was fading away, contrasted with a reality that was quite dark. But there was definitely a spirit shared. Test Department were polemic where we were quite poetic, personal, romantic, the way we saw things. But then again, personal is political. They were out on tour with the miners during the strike, and you can’t get more personal than people’s lives being affected like that… It was totally opposite to Test Department, who were in training upstairs being militant. We were downstairs on drugs writing these really weird dirges. It was chalk and cheese”
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Transpontine: Band of Holy Joy/Test Department (via hydragenic)

I was flipping through an issue of Wire magazine the other day and was surprised to see an article in which Band of Holy Joy’s singer commented on various songs he found inspirational. Lots of Brecht and Weill talk.

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