Mental masturbation
When Martin Roe's production of Marat/Sade begins, it is like looking at one of William Hogarth's prints: thirty-six lunatics, itching, spitting, and rocking, leer out at you from the stage. You watch embarrassed as one of them masturbates in the corner, you get distracted by a man in a straight jacket who tries to head-butt a nurse while jumping up and down, and then the mad man with the grimace will wave and stare at you to say, it seems, that you are part of the play as well....
Music: Singles
The Lightening Seeds, Life's Too Short
Music: Albums
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Music: Gigs
The All-Seeing I, Zodiac, Oxford
Music: Skweeze me ...
It is around this time of year that people begin to curse Noddy Holder. After all, the experience of Christmas shopping is never made any easier by Slade's ubiquitous Merry Christmas Everyone! In his autobiography, Who's Crazee Now?, Holder sadly makes no apology for his band's festive anthem. He does, however, provide a disarmingly unpretentious and vivid account of thirty years in the pop industry....