News has become disposable.
That wasn’t always an improvement.
Most of these songs began life as headlines. They arrived with great urgency, dominated the country for somewhere between six hours and three days, then quietly disappeared beneath the next manufactured emergency. By Friday you’d forgotten Monday. By next month everyone was arguing about something else. The stories moved on. The questions rarely did.
I started writing these because I realised I couldn’t remember what we’d all been furious about a fortnight earlier. Every week came with another announcement, another review, another promise, another official explanation for why something obvious wasn’t actually happening. It struck me that if I couldn’t remember them, perhaps that was rather convenient for the people responsible.
So this isn’t really an album. It’s evidence. Fourteen moments the news cycle expected everyone to forget. Maybe you’ll agree with every song. Maybe you’ll disagree with every one. Either way, at least they’ll still exist after the headlines have gone.
Select any track to read the lyrics and listen to the recording.
- Who Killed Ann
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong
- The Leaflet
- Terms And Conditions Apply
- Expires At Nine
- NON PM
- The British Way
- Stop the (Orange) Boats
- Full Force Of The Law
- Thank God For The Newts
- 160
- Department For Watching Dinghies
- Light Touch
- Officially Speaking