Recorded for our double album Civil Disobedience in 2011, this is a cover of a track by The Gang Of Four in which I participated purely to keep Luc Tran and Richard Wong happy. The group specialised in recording pseudo Marxist balderdash for EMI whi…
Recorded for our double album Civil Disobedience in 2011, this is a cover of a track by The Gang Of Four in which I participated purely to keep Luc Tran and Richard Wong happy. The group specialised in recording pseudo Marxist balderdash for EMI which is rather like me joining the British National party in order to promote opposition to racial prejudice. Daft I call it.
To be fair, their arrangement is effective and certainly more interesting to me than the dreary original. It is also (probably) the only instance in which Luc arranged a work on which he does not appear as a performer although he did set the effects boxes for the guitars, primarily in order to stop them sounding like guitars – which I endorse, naturally. Oh and the reason Colin plays the drums rather than Richard or Luc is because after Luc modified the drum pattern, he discovered neither he nor Richard could play it.
Andy Martin – Vocals.
Zhang Yao Min – Guitars.
Fabian Fritze – Bass Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Drums.
Text & Music – The Gang Of Four.
Arrangement – Luc Tran & Wong Yit Sinh.
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