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 biggest scam in modern politics is that it pretends to be an improvement on “old” politics. The worst offenders typically being on the right. Why would anyone align themselves to a party, if they didn’t believe in it’s past “achievements”? I can’t really see any purpose for right-wing politicians, other than to conserve their own personal wealth and fiercely maintain the current system. All things considered, I’d say conservative/Republican parties should be made illegal, just on the grounds of common decency. Yes we’re all basically animals but also capable of caring about other people. Free markets and social Darwinism—nice work if you can get it.
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I was wondering exactly what you meant by this modern politics being better than old politics scam.? It’s pretty obvious that party politics has inherent weaknesses whether you’re talking about the absurdly black and white simplistic narrow minded tribalism of old Labour and establishment Toryism or the modern chameleon like machinations of modern coalition politics. Generally tho these changes reflect real changes in society. A fact often missed by “traditional” labour voters is that there simply are not enough of them to ever vote in a labour majority hence labour’s continual need to attract a middle class nonaligned vote. So society has changed and our politics has reflected that. You make it sound as tho a conspiracy of “new” politics has been forced on us in an attempt to make us forget about the glorious reality of old style politics where everyone new whether they were Labour or Tory and no one ever thought of ever voting for anyone else – but then you don’t agree with party alignment which is more new politics than old politics? I’m confused Ade.
Iain
PS Loved the Static show last week.
Someone was only talking to me about Pebbles last month and I’d never heard of them so great to see and hear it here.