Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Songs About People # 976 Tony Allen


A short mini-series within a series here from a quite bizarre eponymous album released in 2012 by a collective called The North Sea Scrolls. As is so often the case with the oddest albums, Luke Haines is one of the main suspects involved. In this case he's joined by another notable obscurist Cathal Coughlan once of Microdisney and Fatima Mansions and Australian journalist Andrew Mueller. The record seems to explore an alternative universe where Oswald Mosely gets to be Prime Minister, Ireland has invaded England and all kind of other peculiar and inexplicable eventualities occur.

It's a good album anyhow, so long as you don't try to figure out what exactly is going on. There are three specific song title namedrops here. The first I'm posting is for slightly marginal supporting actor Tony Allen who made an uncredited appearance in A Hard Day's Night and later appeared in Carry on Abroad and The Sweeney. Nothing so funny as an in-joke I guess!


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