Tim retorts “It is a very nice charity shop, love”. “There is an old box in the back room, next to the staff bathroom, we are sending them down to the town shop, as we really only sell high class fashions in this…emporium.” The words ‘town shop’ is almost spat out in disgust. The lady looks at Tim and there is a sort of disappointed look on her face, we have perhaps dashed a fantasy of hers of us being high class transsexuals. She is possibly the poshest lady I have ever spoken to, she pulls her glasses, which are on a string of, up over her nose and stares at us, when Tim asks her “Do you sell music in here, love?”. …….which is why Badger and I are standing inside a small room about to ask this lady if they sell CDs. TSOBO Rule #3 was of course, ‘Never walk past a Charity Shop if its Open’ TSOBO Rule #12 was ‘Never shop in Tesco (unless you have to)’ and TSOBO Rule #17 ‘Keep Left (always)’. TSOBO Rule #28 for instance was ‘Never Leave the Biscuit Barrell empty’. The manifesto contained at the end 62 rules, which, if followed, would make your life easier and much more enriched. Some of you may remember that when Badger, KT and I were writing The Sound of Being Ok Blog (TSOBO) we drew up a manifesto, which we tried wherever we could to put it to the test-o. We have ambled on in expecting to find a treasure trove of CDs and vinyl but find ourselves face to face with a Margaret Thatcher look alike who is a wearing twin set and pearls and is enjoying Radio 3 in the background. It clearly stated ‘Rowcroft Hospice Charity…’ on the front of the shop. Essentially Badger and I have walked into a ladies dress boutique thinking that it was a charity shop. We are to be honest a little out of place. The ladies are looking at Badger and I as if we are weirdos. ![]() #5b bought – Rowcroft Hospice Boutique, Wellswood, Torquay for £1 #5a bought – Rowcroft Hospice Boutique, Wellswood, Torquay for £1. ![]() #5b – Tonight – Franz Ferdinand (Domino Records, 2009) #5a – Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell – The Flaming Lips (Warner Bros, 2003) His take on Michael is more conventional than most of his work, but it’s different enough that it’ll likely split opinions across the TVV readership. He is genuinely impossible to pigeon-hole. Simon Bookish is the stage name of Leo Chadburn, a British musician and composer, whose work has long embraced experimental, electronic, pop and classical music. Mp3: Franz Ferdinand – Michael (Simon Bookish version) The b-side of the 7″ wasn’t available elsewhere:. It was the one that didn’t quite get the full sing-a-long from the packed audiences in the large arenas….but, come August 2004, a full six months after the album had been released, it became the fourth single to be lifted from it, going on to sell enough copies to reach the Top 20.ĭomino Records issued the single across a number of formats, and in doing so ensured the completists would have to spend money as the different b-sides/additional tracks were spread out across them. I never imagined that Michael would have been thought of as a single, partly as I thought it would be unlikely to receive any daytime radio play, but also because it was a song that had caused a bit of angst among the homophobic element of the ever-increasing number of FF fans. It’s symptomatic of the originality that makes Franz Ferdinand so intriguing. You simply don’t get songs like Michael very often in current rock music. ![]() Michael does neither, settling for an intriguing combination of sly humour and bug-eyed lust, as if the song’s central character started camping it up for a laugh and ended up in rather deeper water than he had anticipated. On the rare occasions that an alt-rock artist dabbles with sexual ambiguity in their lyrics, they either start carrying on as if they personally invented the concept of homosexuality and deserve some sort of medal – see electro-rapper Peaches – or else, like Suede, they overdo the mincing and end up sounding ridiculous, like John Inman visiting an indie disco. Morrissey and the Magnetic Fields aside, indie doesn’t really do gay. This really shouldn’t seem like a brave move in 2004, but it does. Michael appears to be a love song aimed squarely at a man. He especially went out of his way to mention the song Michael:. Back in 2004, he offered up a 5-star review of the self-titled debut album by Franz Ferdinand and in doing so welcomed them as a real breath of fresh air in an increasingly tired-looking indie scene. Alexis Petrides, the rock and pop critic for The Guardian newspaper, is someone I’ve long regarded as being a sharp and astute observer of music across all the genres.
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