Monday 7 December 2009

The Night We Kept for Seething Wells

I mourned, a while ago, the death of angry music journalist Swells, formerly known as Seething Wells the communist poet and officially known as Steven Wells. He hated every band I've ever loved, which made him compulsive reading.

A big tribute night was held in London at the weekend, and my friends The Nightingales (or most of them) were on the bill, alongside poets John Hegley, Little Brother (author of 'PC Gone Mad' - a poem about a policeman with mental health issues), David Quantick, various other indie luminaries and compered by my favourite communist punk poet, Attila the Stockbroker. The 'Gales played an Electric Eels number, a punked-up Mel and Kim track, their recent hit 'Little Lambs' and a thrash interpretation of The Internationale. A good time was apparently had by all.

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