... ” Desperate to be John Lydon, though he sounds like an Estuary-twanged Dr Frank-N-Furter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tomlinson seeks to embody all that is nasty and nihilistic about contemporary Britain” …
“Rail-thin, his eyes ringed with makeup and dotted with sequins, singer Martin Tomlinson radiates a genuinely unpredictable hostility. …Their sound colonises an unsettling area midway between the hammering drum machine and guitar of controversial 80s trio Big Black and the murky noise of early Throbbing Gristle.
The divertingly titled anti-war songs, Britain Is Shit and Fuck the Poor may lack a certain lyrical finesse, or indeed any lyrical finesse whatsoever, but at a time when most protest in rock music comes with an air of meek appeasement, their uncompromising rage sounds strangely refreshing.”
aus guardian-reviews.
“Rail-thin, his eyes ringed with makeup and dotted with sequins, singer Martin Tomlinson radiates a genuinely unpredictable hostility. …Their sound colonises an unsettling area midway between the hammering drum machine and guitar of controversial 80s trio Big Black and the murky noise of early Throbbing Gristle.
The divertingly titled anti-war songs, Britain Is Shit and Fuck the Poor may lack a certain lyrical finesse, or indeed any lyrical finesse whatsoever, but at a time when most protest in rock music comes with an air of meek appeasement, their uncompromising rage sounds strangely refreshing.”
aus guardian-reviews.
jurijmlotman - am Freitag, 10. Dezember 2004, 19:40 - Rubrik: aging of pop