Review on Angel Magazine – words by Chris Hawkins – BBC 6Music
Excerpt:
“Summer is the very best time for live music in the capital. From Hyde Park to the plush surrounds of Kenwood, Shoreditch Park and Somerset House, we’re spoilt for choice. All tastes are catered for with no genre left untouched.
I’m always in search of a summer anthem (last year it was Always Like This by Crouch End’s ever more successful Bombay Bicycle Club) and this year it’s a fusion of Country, Punk, Ska and Balkan Folk, courtesy of the The Penny Black Remedy (TPBR) and their superbly named single, You Have Wasted Your Life, Now Please Stop Wasting Your Money. The track has an instant resonance and is wildly catchy. Lead singer and songwriter Keith M Thomson says: “The fact that most of my songs are about death, lost love, brothels or just trying to live in a constant state of crippling paranoid fear and cope with the daily grind of everyday life is irrelevant. If anything, encouraging people to sing loudly and out of tune about the absurdity of general existence seems to instill a sense of comfort and unity. I think.” Quite.”
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