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Mixed opinions, as ever my dears!The following is from this months Artrocker magazine... The following review is from The Devil Has The Best Tuna...Ste McCabeGenre: Punk / Electro From: Manchester, United KingdomAt
a point in British history when homophobic attacks are on the increase,
the leader of the BNP is appearing on the BBC, gay is a term of abuse
in schoolyards across the country and 'pop' stars (and I use the term
lightly!) are outing gay men in an attempt to smear them we need Ste
McCabe, the one man pocket sized TRB for the noughties, and his angry new album 'Murder Music'.Ste is his usual angry, passionate self sounding like Shelley (the romantic punk singer not the English romantic poet) fronting an electro punk Crass. Religion gets a bashing as does Mick Hucknall, jurors and the Pope. While the polemic can get a little oppressive at times and you find yourself yearning for an old fashioned Buzzcockesque
love song to ease the tension, you cannot but help be caught up in his
righteous anger. Check out the short, sharp attack on arrogant young,
and probably homophobic, chavs of 'I've Got A Big Car' and the gay punk disco of 'Militant Disco' which sounds like a gourmet soup made from the Pet Shop Boys and Crass.Now more than ever before is the time to sing if you're glad to be gay!And here's the last, and rather dreadful, review from Unpeeled!....STE McCABE: "Murder Music" (Cherryade Records)
RELEASED? Out now.
SOUNDS LIKE? A dude with an electric guitar and the worst electro drum machine in the world ever. Oh,
and a bit of piano on "I'll Spit
On Your Grave", a hate filled
ditty that seems to be aimed
at a priest, or maybe the pope,
or a next door neighbour
whose dog barks all night, it is
a bit ambiguous, though it
does have all the hallmarks of
Mr McCabes music, which is
out of tune singing, misplaced
sentiments and blind hatred
used to fight blind hatred.
IS IT ANY GOOD? Ghandi is
famously quoted as saying, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world
blind." And from Ste's music I get the feeling that he would be quite
happy if we were all stumbling around in the dark trying to find the
kettle. There are some really serious issues tackled on this album, and
they are tackled with fury, anger and sarcasm in varying degrees. It's
just a pity that none of the righteous indignation has gone in to
making any music worth listening to. And that's the crux. Political
albums are like comedy albums, the music is often an afterthought, and
that is what the music on this, Ste's sophomore effort, feels like. And
the half arsed electro beats? They make me so angry I could beat up a
priest, wear his clothes, stick on a hitler moustache and wave a Daily
Mail at the closest camera, but I won't as that would be pointless and
juvenile. Ste McCabe has a lot to say that I agree with, but here he
has made music which I don't. It might be a balance thing, as Ste's
fury goes up his song writing ability goes down. This is a punk album,
and punk often means music that is made with passion rather than
talent, and Ste does have passion, lots of it, it spews from his mouth
much in the same way Snickers bars spew into school toilet bowls from
the mouths of insecure girls with bad teeth, all he needs now is to
write a good song with all that bile.When more pop up, I will blog them.Lotsa love, Ste xx
6:51 PM
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