With a dark, sinister video by Teesside filmmaker John Kirkbride, the Middlesbrough band return with simmering rage-filled dance and spoken-word number around the corruption and frustrations of modern Britain, performed by Kingsley Hall. Hall wrote it alongside Robbie Major, James Welsh, Zera Tønin of the queerpop-electro duo Arch Femmesis adds backing vocals, and Kirkbride’s video has inspiration from the 1980 London gangster film The Long Good Friday. Out on Invada Records. To explore and enjoy by Benefits, see also the other embedded links below.
This rose tinted sham…
Desert island dickheads who don’t give a damn,
about you or me or our fate,
yet, we’re all just enemies of this pitiful fucking state.
Just satellite town has beens,
Twitching at the fucking flatscreen,
Flat capped, whippetted,
Regionally voiceovered,
Filling up the comments box,
Last of the summer whining,
Meat cheeked antiques.
As we slither, humble and meek,
no argument allowed, or heads bowed,
Because we’re all stereotypes up here.
Feet up pound shop debts and fear,
Stinking of football and beer.
Because it’s easier like that I suppose,
Just label the lot, then off you trot,
some demographic crack, box ticked on track,
The hypocritical hoards, striking all the wrong chords,
Best left to rot at the back.
Sell by dated, nationally hated,
Traditionally aggravated.
And we know this game. We know this game.
Hail to the thief
Hail to the thief
In this land of the tyrants
Hail to the thief
Smash us down,
As we can’t escape, until the ad break.
This bastard north, this stone faced shackle,
And in the distance you hear that Etonian cackle,
As we shout manically at the sky, but don’t ask why.
No ones listening, no one is bothered,
So tear our lives apart,
We’re useful to no one,
Just statistics not beating hearts.
Yet you’re victorious,
So tell me your typical bullshit,
Feed me that pseudo fury,
Grind in the lazy shame
And shift the blame, again and again and again.
Hail to the thief
Hail to the thief
In this land of the tyrants.
Hail to the thief.
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