Sometimes you just want to listen to something fun. Shouty, sweary fun. And that's what I've been doing the last few days courtesy of Pink Suits (https://www.facebook.com/pinksuitsband).
They're a "Queer Feminist Punk Rock & Rage" duo based in Margate who formed in 2017 who've just released a rather amazing debut album titled Political Child. There's a much better review than this over on Louder Than War that throws comparisons around to the likes of White Stripes, Crass and Chumbawamba and I have to say that their eye catching video for Fake Great Britain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf035k1myxo) did remind me of Danbert Nobacon and Alice Nutter stomping around. I also get a Victorian music hall vibe (the duo are well versed in dance and physical theatre). Maybe a more contemporary comparison would be Cockwomble meets Cold Meat. The message is serious but the delivery is often vaudeville.
Highlights are plenty and include Anarchist Wisdom which had me shouting along and Decades Back ("They’ll fuck the queers fuck the poor they’ll fuck the foreign ones even more drop the bombs even the score when money is power, all they want is more"). The title track begins "Your time is up mother fuckers... and tells those in authority "we're coming for you and we're gunning for change you’re gonna hear our noise you’re gonna feel our rage."
You can find it here : https://pinksuits.bandcamp.com/album/political-child
The track I'm highlighting is the first on the album and it's a little more restrained than many of the other tracks but the lyrics strike a chord. It's called My Old Man's A Dustman...
My mum asked me recently
do you ever just switch off
but there’s palm oil in everything
and I’ve got a chronic cough
there's warnings in the paper
not to breathe the fucking air
and white supremacist terrorists
won’t be stopped with thoughts and prayers
The rich won't pay their taxes
but the poor get sent to jail
and the rest of us pick up the slack
when the bank’s too big to fail
There’s children kept in cages
their abusers all walk free
everyone just turns their head
it’s not effecting me
the NHS is failing
at the hands of tory scum
I weep for failed America
it’s a sign of what’s to come
if you wanna have a baby still
then contemplate it’s worth
$10 000 each at least
to overpopulate this earth
the planets fucking burning
and those with sway don’t care
it’s up to us to foot the bill
now that’s not very fair
the media’s not mediating
Murdoch’s made his bed
just suppress the voters now
democracy is dead
Black lives fucking matter
Now watch how you respond
Neutrality is violence
You’ve been silent for too long
Our Trans brothers and sisters
Need our voices in the fight
You feel attacked because you’re wrong
It’s not because you’re white
The times they keep on changing
And you try to block the way
This fighting for equality
Is every single day
We are all responsible
This world is fucking ours
It’s time to strip authority
From all abusive powers
The queen is just for tourists
So let’s sell her fucking crown
our rents are on the rise again
and the pound’s way fucking down
The numbers just keep going up
on people sleeping rough
But theyre defined poverty
and claimed they’d done enough
so we’re eating out of food banks
and working till were dead
it’s getting harder to resist
I can’t get out of bed
My old man’s a dustman
He’ll work until he’s dead
He’ll grind his bones into the ground
to make his daily bread
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