Dizraeli

Laties und Gentelmans

Oh, we had a lush time this evening. It was perfect: the Rebel Cell finished playing to a packed house, and I asked them all to come down to Tesco for a big old dance and to play the food.

People’s eyes lit up. About forty of us went down, and had so much of a knees-up in Tesco (sorry Mr Manager, I know you asked us to stop playing, and we didn’t stop the first time. Apparently they’ve got their very own laws fobidding clapping, in the happy land of Tesco) that we decided to all shift on up to Lidl’s, for a repeat. Lidl’s loved it- both the security guys were grinning side to side at our colours and song, but they felt they should ask us to stop anyway, and we did. “We like the rhythms, but that’s enough”.

So hm, we thought, can’t stop now, let’s troop to Sainsbury’s for a continuation (it’s amazing, the choice that shoppers and supermarket dancers are gifted with, in this modern age. Three identical hypershops in walking distance of each other). 

Sainsbury’s was the pinnacle. There, only amused checkout girls guarded the fort, and no-one stopped us at all. We jammed on sandwiches and boxes of cereal, and heads wearing smiles peered round the shelves to look. Look, there’s a bloke with a battery-powered keyboard under his arm, doing his shopping, glancing in our direction. Baba reeled him in with a wave, and soon we had a full set of keys in the middle of our madness, bashing out jazz chords as the children shook chocolate flavoured Weetabix.

We all emerged feeling exhilerated, and reassured that there was a point after all. The point, we thought, is to Get The Fuck On and Do… break the layers of ice and reservation and splash around in the waters. Boom boom rustle shake stamp clap thank you.

We filmed it all, too, and our friend Felix, the visuals wizard, is going to edit all the footage, along with what we spooled in the other day (me rapping, drumming, running around naked in another Tesco’s carpark) this week. We’re hoping that the full Bomb Tesco video will be ready and YouTubed by the end of the week. And that means…

The next single is coming!

It’s a story of ice-breaking and banality-bashing, with Bad Science drummer Tom Keeling guesting on percussion and pots and pans. ‘Bomb Tesco’ will be accompanied by a B-side, old-skool style: Scifax, otherwise known as Alex the bassist from Bad Science, has done a killer drum and bass remix, which you are all going to wave your heads around to, like loons.

Tug by tug, the album comes closer. It’s getting me all tingly.

Keep your eyes and ears open for the new song, the video and the remix. Big love.

Dizraeli