horsemouth was too young for punk (or so he thought at the time). later he thought he was too old to be in a band. he would have been about 12 when the sex pistols played caerphilly castle cinema.
and in fact the sex pistols were really just a boyband copy of richard hell and voidoids and the new york dolls. horsemouth thinks the best book he ever read on the whole thing was by fred vermorel who hung out on the vivienne westwood end of it. he emphasises the art school roots of it.
lots of people emphasised the working class roots of it but frankly all the Oi music that came out of that was terrible (ok fun also (but by and large terrible)). the people who were interesting rapidly depart into post-punk or goth, not the least john lydon's PiL.
of course it went on a long time. but there was two tone and there was mod and there was electropop and reggae and electro and rap and eventually there was house and then all the proliferating genres out of that.
on this day in 1871 during the paris commune courbet's artists committee meet. later he gets a lot of the blame for the destruction of the vendome column (after the fall of the commune).
on this day in 1969 alice coltrane, ron carter and rashied ali recorded huntington ashram monastery. there's something special about a ron carter bassline. it's one of horsemouth's favourite alice coltrane records.
on this day in 1971 she's back in the studio recording tracks for universal consciousness (hare krishna and sita ram).
it's a grey day out (but it's not supposed to rain).
how will horsemouth survive when the money stops coming in? it's less that he needs the money to survive but more that it assuages his anxiety about surviving. furlough enables him to make the rent. the tarot suggests all will be well but it may tae horsemouth time to get comfortable. horsemouth thought he was living cheaply (but then the lockdown came to show him what living cheaply really looked like).
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