Chris’s songs over the last 20 years or more have been a reminder to find the comic absurdity in many aspects of our society and the campaigns to change it for the better. Reminding us that in being able to laugh at ourselves, we can then feel freer to experiment and enjoy a culture with more complex forms of expression being understood.
He’s gone from risking his own skin walking into dodgy far-right pubs to sing songs making fun of racism, to writing songs making light of the head spinning speed in the 90s in which someone could go from leafleting against fox hunting to being asked to help liberate beagles from a laboratory. He’s poked fun at the history of land ownership and past along tales of drug smugglers robbing their van back from the RUC.
Ideally when it’s fully finished it will contain illustrations, a finished bonus song fan tribute and more commentary from the Captain which I hope to glean from him at some point on a podcast or in conversation.
If you’d like to help illustrate or write the bonus fan tribute hit me up at theosladehome@gmail.com
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Soundchecks are fucking ace, especially when it’s a drum soundcheck and it goes snare, snare, snare, for 10 minutes. I love that bit, that’s my favorite bit of the gig.
My backing band couldn’t be with me tonight because of not existing.
And I did try to get them to come, but they were only in my mind.
But, there has been a lot of problems, I did nearly split up on the way here.
That’s not funny mate, you don’t know the stress I’m under, I nearly split up just before the gig.
Fucking nightmare.
No I didn’t.
You what?
Am I fucking saying I’m gonna split up?
Yeah I fucking am what am I gonna do about it?
Am I fucking looking at me?
I’ll fucking knock myself out in a minute, fat cunt.
Shit, hang on sorry, I’m just glad that none of this actually comes out of me mouth.
Imagine if everyone could hear your internal monologue…
Do you want them women to come and introduce me, because it’s pretty pointless now, should I just get on with it?
People of Blackpool, this fucking festival is like the football match in the middle of the 1st world war.
Loads of people who could be killing each other, just having a rest from all that, I like to see that.
And this is the time, I don’t want to see you sat down, it’s Saturday afternoon you lazy fuckers.
Can we have a bit of like we mean it? Can we have a bit of like we mean it vibes?
Now these are the rules, it’s very, very simple. Anyone in here, who doesn’t sing along to the sing-a-longy bits, I’ll find out where you live.
And I’ll get a housing benefit claim on your spare room.
And I’ll eat all your cashew nuts and I’ll say it was somebody else.
I’m prepared to go that far, I know it sounds evil, but it is evil because you know I am evil.
That’s one of the curses of being evil, it’s the embarrassing bit when you realise you are evil.
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