![]() ![]() ![]() Think John Cooper Clarke with his sharp tongue, eye for the curious and sharp-suited rhymes, or 'The Ramones' kicking off a revolution with a string of two minute wonders. The comparison is not unreasonable many of 'The Streets' finer lyrics are echoed here.Ī 40 page poem that fizzes along, keeps you hooked, draws you in then makes you want to start all over again. If 'The Streets' are to be seen as the most powerful musical event of the past twenty years, then Craig Smith must send similar shivers down the spine of the poetry world. In a world where poetry is dominated by only a handful of recognised writers, it comes as a tremendous relief to find a rising star with such a fresh and obvious talent. It's the funk and the fury, the coke field and the brewery, aspirations while signing on, tantric sex and the creative use of sound effects. God, what they learned from me, these chumps sat at my knee, hearing stories of me and Liam pre-Patsy, pre-Platinum bearing down on some poor slob town on a transit-borne suicide tour, me supplying weed to keep their 2 and 4 a tick behind the beat so they were tight without being neat and camp without being effete, to ensure they got high without losing it, living to excess without over-doing it, embracing the life while at the same time eschewing it, making mad cheddar without pursuing it. Instead they sacrificed art for show biz, took the purse, chowed down on glory and fame, posed for the Face, gave up on their collective history and played the game for easy money. I thought they'd crash the party, squat like bums in the navel of the industry, establish a cairn where chaos meets harmony, prescribe a scrip for the roll 'n' roll pharmacy, like dumb kids singing for the love of eternity, stake a claim for the arse-end of infamy, take it to the bridge and then come back to get me. My friends, so called, were shown the opening. ![]()
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