Julian Cope on Mark Hollis
‘Watershed’ gives the album some mid-pace, spelling out the classical and jazz directions of the record, though avoiding anything that sounds like a traditional song – Hollis lost in a kind of repetition akin to Wyatt’s bleating on ‘Sea Song’, always coming back to “Should have said so much…Makes it harder…The more you love…” ‘Inside Looking Out’ strips the album back again, extremely sparse piano and a minimal folky guitar, I’m pretty sure I read that Hollis’ started studying certain instruments and classical approaches, evident in this song. ‘Inside Looking Out’s lyrics like the longest song here ‘A Life (1895 – 1915)’ have the least lyrics. There seems to be a Beckettian “Less is more” vibe here, and I’m sure “Fail better” is something Hollis lives by – the records sound that way…
4 July, 2009 at 1:11 am
4 July, 2009 at 1:15 am
Chipmunks!
4 July, 2009 at 1:16 am
Giving them right to reply to Mark Hollis.
4 July, 2009 at 1:17 am
But what of Chip ‘n Dale?
4 July, 2009 at 1:20 am
They were eaten by badgers. It happened last week but kiddy fiddler died on the same day so it was very under-reported.
4 July, 2009 at 1:23 am
It was this one what done it:
(I don’t know how to insert a picture)
4 July, 2009 at 1:25 am
Oh my God Badgers!! That’s an evil looking one for sure.
4 July, 2009 at 1:28 am
They all look like that – the pics are always doctored so we don’t get too scared of nature n all.
4 July, 2009 at 1:29 am
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
4 July, 2009 at 1:32 am
See, that’s just typical of the sort of thing that badgers do so we don’t know what evil bastards they really are. Did you know Tony Blair is a badger in disguise?
4 July, 2009 at 1:33 am
It’s all beginning to make sense now, in fact are New Labour all badger body snatchers? And what of Cameron, ultra badgers?
4 July, 2009 at 1:34 am
Nope – Cameron makes badgers sick! I’ve intercepted their messages they send by cat.
4 July, 2009 at 1:41 am
I’ve just dug the message out and it says Cameron is a puppet of the Polecat Brigade.
4 July, 2009 at 2:38 am
When Thatcher tried to introduce polecats in the 80s there was widespread rioting, so I doubt ameron will ally himself to polecats brigade this time.
Oh..wait a minute…I think I meant ‘poll tax’…pls ignore.
4 July, 2009 at 2:45 am
LoL!! The Polecat Brigade have forgotten the ’80’s (except for Adam Ant who they love) and are pleased everyone is in so much more debt and taped even more firmly to the system by the badgers that they are planning to get away with bigger and better scams this time round. This is what the cat told me anyways.
4 July, 2009 at 5:53 am
i’m still in love with your avatar
6 July, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Badgers I rest my case. Sorry for the length of url
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/candidates/photos/2936.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/candidates/2936.htm&usg=__HL_UbzwpfI_VJMkLrHPMmy710ok=&h=154&w=154&sz=5&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=G4I4ifMjGmLLSM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnorman%2B%2Blamont%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1T4GGLR_enGB283GB284%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
6 July, 2009 at 10:54 pm
good call celty
8 July, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Lamont!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 July, 2009 at 11:27 am
not quite badgers, but if you have 1O minutes to spare enjoy this one.
17 July, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I loooooooooooooooooooove the Clangers 🙂
17 July, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Me too, Clangers are wonderful, thanks!
17 July, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Such a shame Earth was not good enough for them, still can’t can’t blame them.
5 September, 2009 at 3:20 pm
i agree with most of the comments on here, especially julian copes “hollis lives”
my 1 year old grandaughter is impressed with both the montreaux live concert and http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/footy.html
we are up to 17-0 and no sign of tiring.
lo.l all them badgers seem to do is talk talk, talk talk