John McClure, the cheeky-chops head pumbah of laddish protestniks Reverend & The Makers, has disclosed a dramatic about-face at the heart of his songwriting process. McClure, a long-term advocate of radical formica-chomsky sloganeering, has claimed that future Makers material will deliberately “dance around” weighty political subjects, rather than confront them head-on.
“We all know the world’s going down the shitter with a bullet” said McClure, “there’s no novelty in that anymore. Everyone knows their government are coked out of their heads. Everyone knows their postman’s on crack. So what are you supposed to write about if you’re the saviour of a generation? Shagging kestrels? Contemporary wallpaper designs? Fuck that shit, man.”
“You can’t really get anything sorted by going for it full-on” says McClure, rubbing his neatly-pruned troglodyte stubble. “I wanna tease people’s opinions subliminarily, like Naomi Klein meets Paul McKenna“. Among the songs currently being wrung over by the Makers are ’Raspberry Jam In The Sudan’, about an incident-free picnic on the Darfur border, and ‘Blood For Oil (Don’t Even Mention It)’, which is about “everything but Iraq”.
“It’s kinda like having a thing for your best mate’s bird, or your second cousin. You know she’s gagging for it, she knows you’re a randy bastard, but you know if you do anything about it, you’re gonna get kneed in the grapes. That’s kinda the way I feel about the BNP”. AB
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