shardcore

We are in the final throws of a general election here in the UK, a clusterfuck of spin and lies that tends to leave me more disenfranchised than ever. Around the time of the last election, some friends and I got together to record some music inspired by this debacle. I decided to create a video for one of these pieces, democrashit. The lyric is not mine, it is written and performed by The Sheriff of Nothing.

“If this were a dictatorship it’d be a heck of a lot easier.
Just so long as I’m the dictator…”

Choose Tory, choose Liberal, choose Labour!
Choose you own fuckin’ jailor!
Democracy… you’re havin’ a laugh, innit?
They’re only in it to win it.
Can’t take another failure to acknowledge
What everybody already knows:
That’s the way it goes.
Everybody knows, that’s the way it goes….

Government by consent they tell me,
Well I don’t give mine.
Government by the mediocre pack, the grey,
the dead-from-the-neck-up party hacks.
Public schoolboys kissing arse.
Democracy, I wouldn’t wipe your arse with it.

Democracy…. Mediocracy…. A lawyer’s trick.
Every four years they choose their moment and offer you a little bite.
Then you get sentenced to Democracy of the Westminster kind.
No, not government by the tabloids or self-obsessed tv, Democracy!

Devoid of the honesty to admit that public opinion is the shit,
the lies they print between the tits and panty shots
and the lying banners of the red-rag tops. Democracy!

The first to go is freedom of speech.
I’m told I can’t complain or criticise
because I have defamed the memory of those who died.
Apparently granddad did his bit for this so-called Democrashit.

Yeah, right!

All those drafted Johnnies who didn’t go Over The Top
were consequently lined up and shot by their own side.
That’s how much your country loved your Dad,
I’ll not kiss your fucking flag!
Democracy, I wouldn’t wipe your arse with it.

And always you’re told to keep a hold of nurse
for fear of finding something worse.

Democracy, the so-called least-worse option.
An adman’s nightmare, can you imagine the pitch?
“The least-worse margarine”, man that’s a bitch!

Is that really the best we can ever get?
Accept what they call the best we’ve got?

And never try to better it except, of course,
through the gradualism of lying manifestos.
Small wonder that my cynicism grows
until I long for the day when nobody shows up for this sham anymore.

Choose Tory, choose Liberal, choose Labour!
Choose you own fuckin’ jailor!
Democracy… you’re havin’ a laugh, innit?
They’re only in it to win it.

So tick a box, or phone a friend, vote by mail
and indulge in the smug pretence that somehow it just might arrive.

Democracy, I wouldn’t wipe your arse with it.

Filed by shardcore at 9:26 am under music, video
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A flashback, shardcore music from over a decade ago.

majestic, but passive still
i’ve drunk her
and now i’m ill

a look that
disfigures me
i’m crushed by the weight of she
an eyelash
a flake of skin
a detail of what i’m in

she said
“you and i are one,
let’s finish what we’ve begun”
concludes it with a hurried kiss
not sure what’s meant by this
still
the weekend’s nearly here
and all this will disappear

like
nothing

like dust

it’s settled
not discussed

you ask if i like the dress
to me it’s meaningless

these are not the lines to read between
this is what i really mean

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It’s been a long time since I wrote any music, painting has been taking up all of my time. However, I did have a little spare time recently, and produced this piece.

I also made a video for it, because, well, why not?

Download MP3

Filed by shardcore at 6:20 pm under music, video
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apologies for the relative silence here at shardcore.org. trust me, i’ve been busy.

to tide you over, a lighthearted video remix of marilyn manson.

business as (un)usual shall be resumed shortly.

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Of course we sang. How can you have access to a pipe organ and not have a sing-a-long? Last weekend we enjoyed the anthem to ‘New Labour’ – ‘Things can only get better’ by D:Ream. Michael James Parker performs with the congregation.

Filed by shardcore at 9:43 pm under MASS, exhibitions, music, video
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