A lot has changed since Clinic first shell-shocked the scene in the late ’90s with a waxen trio of blitzkrieg EPs, and the many rave reviews and rarefied Radiohead comparisons that followed its earliest albums, 2000’s Internal Wrangler and 2002’s Walking With Thee. Born during those final twilight hours of the music industry’s money-minting heyday, Clinic has defiantly survived the many upheavals and unthinking revolutions that surround the working band in the internet age. Free Reign (Domino) is Clinic’s seventh album, as well as the most focused and singular of the band’s career to date. Frontman Ade Blackburn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Clinic feature.
Blackburn: The new rock ‘n’ roll (a.k.a. our modern obsession with food) continues to baffle me. I always thought food was fairly functional, something you ate to then go out and do something worthwhile. Not an end in itself. Wanker celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay seem hellbent on creating an empire and brainwashing the viewer. Greed is good, especially if it’s in their chain of restaurants. I’ll probably stick with cheese on toast until the fad dies.
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2 replies on “From The Desk Of Clinic’s Ade Blackburn: Celebrity Chefs”
Food merely functional? I guess it depends on how you define “functional”. Several cultures around the world have had a long history of food being an art form and/or having important cultural significance. Not sure it’s merely a contemporary obsession.
I don’t get the whole “celebrity chef” thing myself, but I think that’s a separate dealie.
Cheese on beans on toast, for me. With a splash or two of Tabasco.
I don’t understand how someone can get all flustered just because they’re ‘cooking for Michel Roux’