November 10, 2009 – 11:55 pm
What do you get if you cross the singer from an indie band, an artist and a seminal writer who worships a Roman sock puppet? Obviously it’s an opera!
The creative team behind Gorillaz and the Monkey Kung Fu opera-thing – Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett – have recruited Comic book supremo, owner of an amazing beard, and general man of mystery Alan Moore to collaborate on their next operatic project. It should at least be very interesting.
And a million times better than Bonio’s Spider-Man musical.
The Spinning Top is a 70-minute folk concept album. Unless you’re a raging fucknut, the phrase ‘70-minute folk concept album’ should rank somewhere between ‘Nazi themed gang-rape’ and ‘Jo Wiley’ on the scale of vomit-inducing horror. This is especially the case given Coxon’s history of self-indulgent lo fi prior to the fizzing pop-punk cluster-bomb that was Happiness in Magazines.
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A recent Guardian article drew the attention to this.
A comprehensive guide to the Britpop years. Hey, everybody! Remember ‘Britpop’? Crap, wasn’t it?
“Well, that depends”, you may respond, “on whether you construct a picture of an era from various sell-through compilations and poorly-recalled media events or whether you maintain a vivid, quasi-synesthetic recollection of the era in your own imagination.”
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By Graham Clarke
Posted in Features
Tagged Blur, Britpop, Echobelly, Elastica, Gene, Melody Maker, Music, Oasis, Pulp, Shed 7, spotify, Suede
