“The internet lists him as ‘Beau guitarist’,
though he’s more than that as a Swiftian lyricist oscillating between cutting
satire, incisive poetry and stark beauty … Two hundred years ago (i.e. B.G., Before Google), he’d have been a
contributor to The Republican, a paid-up member of the Dissenters perhaps, a
participator in the Peterloo Massacre across the Pennines. Or a late troubadour
against the Rotten Boroughs, whose descendants still persist today and even
more brazenly during a time of illness. But there probably won’t be any
Chartists or Northern Star over the horizon. These are the times we find
ourselves in.”
Many thanks to Brian Banks for his fine (expanded) review of “Al Killem’s Final Show”, published today by “It’s
Psychedelic, Baby”.
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