¤ Howard Devoto Interviewed ⇐(vid)
◊ A promo of their album ↓ «Not Thyself» [2011]
◊ ‘A Song From Under The Floors’ ↓
I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin I don’t know what keeps me alive and kickingI know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it This is a song from under the floorboards – Here is a song from where the wall is cracked
My force of habits, I am an insect – And I must confess, I’m proud as hell about that I have known the highest and the best – I accord death with all due respect
But the brightest jewel inside of me, it glows with pleasure at my own stupidity This is a song from under the floorboards – This is a song from where the wall is cracked
My force of habits, I am an insect – And I must confess, I’m proud as hell about that I used to make phantoms, I could later chase – And images of all that could be desired Then I got tired of counting all of these blessings – And then I just got tired
⇓ ‘The Light Pours Out of Me’⇐
Time flies, time crawls like an insect up and down the walls – The light pours out of meThe conspiracy of silence ought to revolutionize my thought – The light pours out of me
The cold light of day pours out of me, leaving me black and so healthy – The light pours out of me
It jerks out of me like blood in this still life heart beats up love – The light pours out of me
. . . [real life Peel session]
I like your nerve, I like watching you
But I don’t watch what I’m doing, got better things to do
So this is real life, you’re telling me
And everything is where it ought to be
This and that, they must be the same
What is legal is just what’s real
What I’m given to understand
Is exactly what I steal
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd …
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn’t lose myself in the crowd
Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come to a secret understanding
New offences always in my nerves
They’re taking my time by force
They all sound the same when they scream
As a matter of course
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd …
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn’t lose myself in the crowd
Shot by both sides . . .
Why are you so edgy, kid? – Asks the man with the voice
One thing follows another – You live and learn, you have no choice
I wormed my way . . .
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn’t lose myself in the crowd
Shot by both sides
I don’t ask who’s doing the shooting
Shot by both sides
We must have come to a secret understanding
♦→ ‘Cut Out Shapes’ ⇓ [«Secondhand Daylight»_1979]
I enter the room, confident enough
For now I tread a straight and narrow way
So I sleep soundly, a little blue in the face
Cut-out shapes in secondhand daylight
Somewhere else – Something else on my mind …
She’s caressing me with the hidden hands
Of the only kind of violence she thinks that I’ll understand
We’ve got them dancing to all of our confessions
They don’t know how we rehearse our dreams
Somewhere else – Something else on my mind …
I just get numb when you’re hard to find …
We met at a psychiatric unit
She was in for having habits no one else would try
She didn’t know what she was in control of
She had all the advantages of magic – No one could deny
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly . . .
Your inescapable mother – Such a crazy lover …
I just get numb when you’re hard to find …
Find out – You’ll find out
–
[«The Correct Use of Soap»1980]
–
♦ Live at Rockpalast ↓ [1980]
• ‘Feed the Enemy’ ↑
It’s always raining over the border – There’s been a plane crash out there In the wheat fields they’re picking up the pieces – We could go and look and stare How many friends have we over there? The border guards fight unconvincingly Whatever we do it seems things are arranged – We always have to feed the enemy You could dance for me and punch me through . . . (Dance for me) We watched them trash the last camera – Glued to all our TVs The actors on the replay – Trying again to touch you and me But they always seem to know what they’re talking about Now they’ve got you in a corner – You’ve got no room to move, no room for doubt That’s what they’re talking about – Now they’ve got you in a corner No room to move, no room for doubt•→ ‘Give Me Everything’ ⇔ [lyrics]
Thunder shook loose hail on the outhouse again
Today I bumped into you again
I have no idea what you want
But there was something I meant to say
As the day stops dead at the place where we’re lost
I will drug you and fuck you on the permafrost
There’s not much that I miss
I’m far too forgetful for that
Sugar’s sweet some of the time
It’s hard to keep some things in mind
As the day stops dead at the place where we’re lost
I will drug you and fuck you on the permafrost
♦ ‘Model Worker’ ↓
I’m sick of working on the land
I wanna work with machines and look handsome
I have been indulging in ostentatious display
Doing little more than eat three square meals a day
And I’ve been shirking my duty
So I’ve been sending gifts to curry favour
But because I love you and because you love me
A model worker I’ll willingly be
I need a holiday, I’ve not been well
Take me to the brocade river hotel
And I just want to know while the revolution lasts
Will it enable me to swallow broken glass!
I’m not too worried by hegemony
I know the cadre will look after me
And I just want to know while the revolution lasts
Will it enable me to swallow broken glass!
I have been indulging in ostentatious display
Doing little more than eat three square meals a day
But because I love you …
♦ ‘Parade’ ↓
They will show me what I want to see – we will watch without grief
we stay one step ahead of relief
you tell me we’ve been praying for a bright and clever hell
I think we’ve been forced to our knees but I can’t tell
Sometimes I forget that we’re supposed to be in love
Sometimes I forget my position
It’s so hot in here – What are they trying to hatch?
We must not be frail, we must watch
Now that I’m out of touch with anger – now I have nothing to live up to
and I don’t know when to stop joking – when I stop I hope I am with you
Sometimes I forget that we’re supposed to be in love
Sometimes I forget my position
Sometimes I forget that we’re supposed to be in love
Sometimes I forget my position
What on earth is the size of my life?
. . . Look what fear’s done to my body …
∞ B’dum B’dum ↓ Buzzcocks & Magazine [doc]
÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷
¤ Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson (born 11 June 1958, Moss Side, Manchester) is a British
rock musician who has worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic. Adamson has also remixed Grinderman, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Depeche Mode. He created the seven-minute opus «Useless (Escape From Wherever: Pts. 1 & 2)» remix for the latter band in 1997.
He read comic books from an early age. In school he absorbed himself in art, music and film, writing his first song, «Brain Pain», at the age of 10. His musical influences were diverse, ranging from Alice Cooper to Motown to David Bowie.
Adamson left school and shifted into graphic design attending Stockport Art College but quit shortly after, favouring to venture into the exploding punk rock scene of the late 1970s. He joined ex-Buzzcocks singer Howard Devoto‘s band Magazine, playing bass guitar, scoring one chart single, «Shot by Both Sides»; in late 1977, he also joined Buzzcocks, as a short-time replacement of Garth Smith. He played on all of Magazine’s albums, and contributed to Devoto’s solo album and his next band, Luxuria. He also contributed to the studio-based band Visage, playing on the ensemble’s first two albums, Visage and The Anvil.
After Magazine broke up, Adamson worked with another ex-Buzzcock, Pete Shelley, before joining Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He appeared on four of that band’s albums: From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks and Your Funeral, My Trial. After his stint in the band, he went solo, releasing an EP, The Man with the Golden Arm in 1988, and his first solo album, Moss Side Story, the following year, the soundtrack to a non-existent film noir. The album incorporated newscasts and sampled sound effects and featured guest musicians Marcia Schofield (of The Fall), Diamanda Galas, and former colleagues from the Bad Seeds. Adamson’s second solo album was the soundtrack to a real film this time – Carl Colpaert’s Delusion, and he would go on to provide soundtracks for several other films.
Adamson’s third album, Soul Murder, was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 1992.
His solo work is influenced by John Barry, Elmer Bernstein and Ennio Morricone. Later works have included jazz, electronica, soul, funk, and dub styles.
In 1996, Adamson contributed to the AIDS benefit album, Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip, produced by the Red Hot Organization. His own album that year, Oedipus Schmoedipus, reached #51 in the UK Albums Chart.
In 2002, Adamson left his long-term label, Mute Records, and started his own ‘production home’, Central Control International. In 2006, he released Stranger on the Sofa, first for his Central Control International imprint, to critical acclaim. Back To The Cat, his second album for the label, was released in March 2008.
On 27 August 2010, Adamson released «Rag and Bone», as a digital download and as a 12 inch vinyl record. He then released his latest studio album «I Will Set You Free» on Jan 30 2012.
• Soundtracks – Albums – His «Refugee Song» was included in Derek
Jarman‘s The Last of England. Adamson also contributed soundtrack material to Gas Food Lodging, David Lynch’s Lost Highway and Oliver Stone‘s Natural Born Killers. Back to the Cat’s opening track, «The Beaten Side of Town», was featured in the hit video game, Alan Wake.
• Discography
| 2012 | I Will Set You Free |
| 2008 | Back To The Cat |
| 2006 | Stranger on the Sofa |
| 2002 | King of Nothing Hill |
| 1999 | The Murky World of Barry Adamson (compilation) |
| 1998 | As Above, So Below |
| 1996 | Oedipus Schmoedipus |
| 1993 | The Negro Inside Me |
| 1992 | Soul Murder |
| 1988 | Moss Side Story |
Our time is done my love ↑ We’ve laid it all to waste
One thousand moonlit kisses can’t sweeten this bitter taste
My desire for you is endless and I’ll love you ‘til we fall
I just don’t want you no more and that’s the sweetest embrace of all
To think we can find happiness hidden in a kiss
Ah, to think we can find happiness – That’s the greatest mistake there is
There is nothing left to cling to babe – There is nothing left to soil
I just don’t want you no more and that’s the sweetest embrace of all
Ooh, where did it begin – When all we did was lose? There’s nothin’ left to win
So lay your weapons down – They serve no purpose in your hands
And if you wanna hold me then go ahead and hold me, I won’t upset your plans
If it’s revenge you want then take it, babe, or you can walk right out the door
I just don’t care anymore and that’s the sweetest embrace of all
Ooh, where did it begin – When all we did was lose? There’s nothin’ left to win
It’s over, babe and it really is a shame
We are losers you and me, babe, n a rigged and crooked game
My desire for you is endless and I love you most of all
I just don’t want you no more and that’s the sweetest embrace of all
◊→ ‘Destination’ ⇓
Destination – On a one-way street
Desperation – In everyone we meet
When I took the lid off the pizza pie
I was controlled and then I reached desire
There was a time when I could love a lesson come
I get a call and now we take a ride
And I took her hands far away
And she’ll see love in me
I got to see the seven seas, the voodoo queen in me
There’s such a pain, the throbbing vein
They’ll never let me be
But I have to say
I have a way
The other wait for days
Destination – On a one-way street
Separation – The death of one we knew
When I took the lid off the pizza pie
I was controlled and then I reached desire
There was a time when I could love a lesson come
I took a call and then I take a ride
And I wanna live on the easy side
I sold my shoe and bought it back online
There was a time when I could love a tesla gun
I take a call and then I take a ride
◊ ‘Black Amour’ ↓ [«The King of Nothing Hill»]
Come closer. «Do you like that?»
Right here, beside me. «Beautiful!»
I have this incredible need
And the need is for you to experience
Black amour. Black amour.
You want a piece of that action?
Well then you call me,
Satisfaction Jackson.
If I ain’t horny,
It’s because I’m in traction.
‘Cause the deeper you go the funkier it gets.
Black amour. Black amour.
I want you, I need you, I love you. Black amour.
I need you, I love you, I want you.
Black… hold my freaking hand.
I want you, I love you, I need you. Black amour.
I need you, I love you, I want you. Black amour.
Love you, need you, want you. Black amour.
◊ ‘What It Means’ ↓ [Sydney _ 2008]
I feel good. I feel bad. Ain’t it sad
One day it’s all going to end
Up in flames. Without a shame
Cos I’m here. To change the total
course of the world (yeah yeah)
And that’s what I’m singing (yeah yeah)
Heat it up. Cool it down
Spread it around under the cold
shadow of love. I have found (I have found)
What it means (what it means). To believe (to believe)
And leave the world to the remains
Of the day (of the day). What I say (what I say). Ain’t so clear (ain’t so clear)
To souls who die when the decline
Can’t be seen (can’t be seen). They’re getting mean (they’re getting mean)
Now we’re going (now we’re going)
To change the total course
(chorus)
Here am I.
Love just spilled on what comes naturally.
Buy and bye
Love just spills and I don’t mean rationally
What it means. Is you’re dead
One to the head. If you don’t know
what is behind. This disguise.
It’s no surprise. When you think
About your own every step of the way
The energy pirates will get you
They’ll chew on your bones for breakfast
They’ll convince you that baby you’re desperate
They’ll spit on your mound and keep pounding and pounding and
(repeat chorus)
All the time. Love just comes and I
don’t mean casually. Wait a while
Love will come and fuck that tragedy
(Cancel that shrink we’re travelling up
to the sky minds on the blink
Or maybe the lies. Out of time)
I have found. What it means. To believe
That what is all going to end
Up in flames. Is your heart
So let it speak. And change the total
course of the world
♦ ‘Jazz Devil’ ⇓ [«The Murky World of Barry Adamson»]
«For people who know my music, this is a bit of a standard … an old favourite …
When god appeared before me – I was drowning in my pool
I was 50 over 30 – But looking real cool
He said a life of tedious insights to an overflowing cup
Just don’t cut the mustard – I’m afraid you can’t come up
I fell way down it seemed into a bottomless pit
A sign saying Hotel Hades was the only sign a’lit
Beezelbub was hanging but he wouldn’t cut no slack
He said, the Big Cat has spoken – I’m afraid you’re going back
As the Jazz Devil – sick and racy
I’m the Jazz Devil – But very tasty
I’m the Jazz Devil – Flymeat in the mix
You can call me Agent Double O 666
I cruised the streets of Sydney with just one thing on my mind
Got a passport labelled fun of the international kind
But first I found these cats and they were howling at the moon
I told them «You play the instruments and I’ll play the baffoon»
We broke into a sombre march called Misery and Woe
And then we upped the tempo until the juice began to flow
All a sudden this chick called Mimi just appeared right out the blue
Saying «I’ve been searching for someone and now I know who»
Jazz Devil – Barry-Ka-bama
I’m the Jazz Devil – Kill me? Call me Karma
I’m the Jazz Devil – Flymeat in the mix
You can call me Agent Double O 666
Me and Mimi settled down in the family kinda way
Won 10 million on the lottery without a debt to pay
And in the wee small hours when there was no place left to spend
We’d open up each other so the days would never end
Some jealous cats caught wind of this and armed up to the teeth
They came in search of me and she with pistols underneath
And they caught me going down – A thing that made me just see red
And as Mimi hit the no return – They filled me full of lead
Damn I’m dead
When god appeared before me – I was lying in a pool
I was 50 over 30 – But looking real cool
He said a life of tedious insights And a tendency to crack
Just don’t cut the mustard – Time to head on back
I fell way down I knew into a bottomless pit
(Oh no here we go)
With a sign saying Hotel Hades is the only thing a’lit
Beezelbub was there a’hanging but he wouldn’t cut no slack
He told me the Big Cat has spoken
Again you’re going back
As the Jazz Devil
Every moment hail the Jazz Devil
As long as days keep dawning
I’m the Jazz Devil
Flymeat in the mix
Where you can call me Agent Double O 666
⇔ [lyrics]
♦ Come Hell Or High Water ⇓
Libertine the name that falls from her lips and splashes on my shoes like sad beads of rain, penetrating the soil and making ready the harvest of our love.
And me?
I got a bug to squash
This tale’s been told a thousand times,
so I thought that I shoulda known better
No pants and a real tight sweater
But it’s from my embarrassment that I tremble
When she saw that I was just a hopeless imitation of the man that I most resemble
And the chords ring so familiar, to a man who’s heard it all before
And the melody will forever linger, like perfume in a hardware store
It ain’t that I seek loneliness …
I just downright fail to understand
How a customary girl, on pedestal shoes
Can all but destroy one man
I wish I’d licked her to the ground
But I swallowed my tongue instead
Watched her from the shadows with a hideous frozen grin
While she carved her name in my head
Some folks talk ‘round the way, saying ‘B you really got it made
Love you like you’re my daughter
Buy you new shoes ‘cause I oughta
And only sometimes will my thoughts turn blue, like the skies
And every word is you
(Instrumental)
Now,
West of Bloody 16th street,
Are the remains of a man who was broken
By the rapture of a girl, on pedestal shoes
And man I tell ya,
That girl wasn’t jokin’
And I’ve killed my mind a thousand times
Now my thoughts stay firmly in the present
But there’s a kinda ugly breach, like a ocean in my soul
Keeps on naggin’ me – so incessant
And the silence is louder than a H-Bomb
That explodes when I close my eyes
Sendin’ shockwaves to the town you’re from
In the hope that you’ll stir – come alive
And I’ll be here, come hell or high water
Love you like you’re my daughter
Buy you new shoes ‘cause I oughta
And only sometimes will my thoughts turn blue, like the skies
And every word is you
Like the skies
And every word is you . . .
♦ Live in the KEXP studio ↓ [February 27, 2012]
– Host: DJ El Toro -• Songs (click for lyrics):
1→The Sun and the Sea⇐ / 2→If You Love Her⇐ / 3→The Power of Suggestion⇐
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