Greetings fellow denizens of our newly-formed Island prison. Here’s a little something to drown out the sound of all that gloating Gammon in this new age of isolationism: a new single by myself and Dolly Dolly, our first ever actual collaboration. All words by that most redoubtable wordsmith and all sounds created by Daphne the UHER 6000 and a spot of Wendy the B77 thrown in for good measure – using a closed-input feedback loop, which seems oddly fitting, doesn’t it? Expertly mastered by Jez Butler from The Twelve Hour Foundation, the whole thing was produced and mixed in one frantic hour the night before Britain left the EU and was officially released at ‘the unmagic moment’ of departure on 11pm on Friday 31st January – where it at least managed to make more noise than Big Ben did. It’s digital-only for the moment, but may find some physical form in the not too distant future, especially as I need to get this next album finished. In the meantime, it’s £1 a pop and 100% of the money raised will be donated to the so-called ‘Terrorist Organisation’ Extinction Rebellion. This fact, plus liberal use of the ‘G-word’ appears to have already made a couple of random strangers on social media VERY upset, though on the plus side the fact that they came across it at all must mean that our ‘reach’ as a brand is getting better, or something. Seriously, though, what is it about being on the winning team that makes some people so very angry?
GAMMON, FEEL THE NOIZE!!
Anyway, good luck, everyone and let’s continue to be kind and supportive to one-another where possible. I was contemplating ending with ‘Let’s be careful out there’, but then I remembered that’s how Alistair Stewart used to sign off episodes of ‘Police, Camera Action’ and decided against it. Somehow in the current climate it didn’t feel right…
Robin The Fog 