Today is the day of days. Well, that's what they'd have you believe anyway. Will anything actually change??? Who knows, but it'll be fun waiting to find out.
Thank god that there are still artists willing to put their nuts on the line and make ANY kind of statement about ting and ting, even if it is in an ever-so-slightly odd way...
"The Story" is the first track taken from The Matthew Herbert Big Band "There's Me And There's You" album – a highly politically charged album, released on Matthews's own Accidental Records on 10th November.
For "The Story" Herbert sampled 70 copies of the Sun newspaper. 70 celebrity gossip magazines. one copy of the nme. one madonna album. one copy of wallpaper magazine. one copy of the sun (aye, like, the real sun).
You can download an edit of the track from here. You can hear him wax political too, and he kinda knows his beans.
The album's theme is power and its abusers in the 21st Century. The lyrics tackle issues such as the Iraq war, torture, Guantanamo, Palestine, AIDS, climate change, the monarchy, and religion. Beats Kerry Katona's boobs any day.