Author Archives: Russell Jones

Lyrics: Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it healsColour my hair but the dye grows outI can’t seem to stay a fixed idealChildhood pictures redeem, clean and so sereneSee myself without ruining linesWhole days throwing sticks into streams I have crawled so far sidewaysI recognise dim traces of creationI wanna die, die inContinue reading “Die in the summertime”

Mausoleum is the eighth track on The Holy Bible and like the penultimate track The intense humming of evil concerns itself with the holocaust inspired by their visits to Dachau and hiroshima Peace museum as a band. Dachau is such an evil, quiet place. There’s no grass, and you don’t even see a worm, letContinue reading “Mausoleum/the intense humming of evil”

Track 6 off the album The Holy Bible and the second single from that album. A fast post-punk song which I love but apparently James Dean Bradfield doesn’t; I have heard this song performed twice so I’m happy. Mr. Lenin – awaken the boyMr. Stalin – bi-sexual epochKruschev – self love in his mirrorsBrezhnev –Continue reading “Revol”

Track 5 on The holy Bible and what a track; an indictment of our glorification of serial killers and an open plea for the use of the death penalty.With a dark bassline and the frenetic naming of killers plus a soundbite from a victim this song is relentless in its fury. Archives of pain lyrics:Continue reading “Archives of pain”

I came up with the idea to film Liam Priestley a friend of mine who was getting involved in a charity boxing match and convinced my nephew to direct whilst I held the sound boom. I was involved in my nephew Wes’ short film where I play a zombie filmed on Chancet wood field.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1999751.The_Sweet_and_Sour_Animal_Book https://booksvooks.com/salt-pdf-nayyirah-waheed.html Adam Moore, who sometimes works under the alias of Adam East London, is a British-Saint Lucian artist who dances and works with dance. Born, living, and working in the regenerated east end of London, he is interested in sustainability. Kaleidoscopic and sensitive, collaborative, socially engaged, and transdisciplinary, his practice engages embodied processesContinue reading “Adam Moore 25/01/2022”

Today’s guest speaker is Hamja Ahsan an artist, writer, curator and activist. A multi-disciplinary artist, his practice has involved conceptual writing, building archives, performance, video, sound and making zines. Key reoccurring themes revolving in his work has been explorations around state crime, contemporary Islamophobia, repression of civil liberties under the so-called War on Terror, andContinue reading “Hamja Ahsan”

The third and final single from The Holy Bible is a bit of a respite from the first three tracks which deal with prostitution, colonialism and abortion but this song is still dark and concerns itself with female suffering and the shedding of desire to become something purer. These themes also resonate in 4st 7lb.Continue reading “She is suffering”