We live in strange times. Leadership seems non-existant, other than to slavishly follow the lunatic in the White House, while in the UK we're confronted by everyday trials and tribulations like trying to avoid the lure of reality TV and frustation at the perennial underachieving of Southport FC. Revolution, it seems, should be in the air.
So what better time for Brother John Robb's annual address to the nation, which is in effect what GOLD BLADE'S new single "Psycho" is. It's a blockbusting anthem from Manchester's finest rock testifiers, with John's scraped guttering vocals ("Sometimes I feel so r-r-reckless, sometimes I feel pretty wi-y-ullld") coming on like the sound of Jake Burns shitting himself and the band's inimitible wall of sound guitars as deliriously lovely as ever. The fact that it's catchier than the average 50 Ft Barbed Wire fence hardly harms its' chances either. The reconstituted Green Day may be currently the ones flicking V's at Congress, but Gold Blade are the knaves of hearts at Britain's royal banquet, pissing in the wine and running roughshod over the Chippendales. Not before bloody time.
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There's also a brace of live tracks and oddities to contend with. There's "AC/DC" and (of course) "Black Elvis" live from St.Petersburg and while these sound like they were recorded on the car stereo of a knackered Lada, the excitement's still as palpable as ever. Even more bizarre are the two covers of ver Blade's "Strictly Hardcore" by OUTL4W (sic) and BUZZBOMB. The former are a scarily proficient bunch of 11 year-olds from oop North and Buzzbomb are Scottish geezers named after a particularly potent Dead Kennedys tune. Theirs has the better, Mick Jones-style "whoa-a-oos", but the pre-teens shade it all things considered. So there.
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