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Dancing on Spikes

by Citizen Fish

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    side 2 has 7 songs recorded live at the 2009 B.O.B. Fest in Bremen. Released by PHR Records

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1.
Unemplode 03:06
UNEMPLODE this man works - oh no he doesnt in the local - no it isnt family run - out of business shop - destroyed by supermarkets this man works for next to nothing just to keep the dole incoming hundreds like him on the phone, hes ringing round the poor and lonely I DONT WANNA HAVE TO DO THE THINGS YOU WONT DO other people rarely met have meetings in our interest and tapping into latent patriotic senses they suggest that its the country thats in debt but as we scour the internet for cheaper ways to make ends meet we know the pictures incomplete CH money makes the world collapse your workforce just fell down the cracks join the queue of the underpaid just to hear no jobs today its easy now to say you care but the country's run by millionaires its rich boy bullshit overload in a nation set to unemplode CH
2.
HD Riot 03:32
HD RIOT here's the daily news of the twisted views of the banks and the businessmen of the war and the waste of the human race and how our lives are already spent but we know it already cos it's been on the telly it's another world out there it's a cultural fix as the images flick and it keeps us all stuck in our chairs it's what we come to see the basic enemy is inactivity they don't care what's on as long as people stay in watching it now the programme's on about the rights and wrongs and it's hard to agree which is which the screens gets bigger the closer we get til the rest of the world doesn't fit now every mum's son is at number one and there's nothing l;eft to surprise the war and the weather and the show goes on and everyone's in disguise the new celebrity has anonymity it could be you and me they don't expect what happens next the gut reaction realised there's a fight for the right to not get shot for gathering on the streets and closer to home when the fuse has blown it's a race to grab a TV it's high definition of aiming low in a culture of hope destroyed now see the effect of your disrespect and how it's gone world-wide your 'big society' is out there rioting what's your priority? all sides in this culture war are out there saying 'never again'
3.
BEYOND BELIEF my god's bigger than your god's bigger than his god's bigger than mine hands together eyes closed who do you believe in?- cos i dont! its bums on pews for the one-way view of the scarey world outside its bombs on the news and we all sit glued and pray for better when we die cos you dont get to be president yet and you dont get to be king and you don't get to to be given the guns til you've done the religion thing -CH its politic man with your cross in his hand behind his back saying dont blame me its morality man with his social plan on thought for the day- i thought 'fuck me' if religion had the power or politicians had the soul would either be a unity that wouldn't crave control? -CH then the god squad came with more of the same and the president sang with the usual gang of caring for the kids in Afghanistan whose parents got killed by the Taliban who were given the power by americans financed by rightwing christians altogether now holding hands do the gods of money and morality dance -CH my god's bigger than your god's richer than his god's armed to the teeth its a war for our souls and their love of control will take us beyond belief
4.
Over 03:36
OVER I heard that peace had met its price at last a bell once banned now tolled me so to say through the sound of grinding teeth decayed a distant cheer was raised 6 miles away that broke a mustered silence come to pass some things are best forever blamed when peace no longer has a frame they say its over i saw the dust unsettled far from homes retreating tracks now waving in some distant fields of vision grown so thin from war now won or lost, what now begins lies scattered to the world like all these stones they say its over i spoke once shouting coughed its hand to friends made mirror nervous as their eyes, like glass reflected shard-like sounds of bombs and blasts and blinks- voices raised again, and fast a past unburied had to wait again i smelt the fear of years to come before some passive judge of time and history will talk of lessons learnt for all to see through holes in walls we made to keep the peace now weakly redefined as the lack of war they say its over
5.
WRITE IT ALL DOWN if these, some momentary words, were caught on paper, read by one or two or twenty thousand people never met and if a word inspired a thought and carried on the chain what's written down may go around to meet up face to face blink- and then, as people say it seems like only yesterday so take time out to write about the difference between the now and then and how and when that changes what will be depends on who's still reading in a future flashing past communal synchronicity, or everything too fast? blink- and then well either way it seems like only yesterday when death came round we understood that all these moments that we thought were written down were gone for good unless they were written down, of course
6.
IT CAN'T GO ON FOREVER something wrong, yeah the moneys all gone and i almost learnt the words to the same old song measuring austerity by the pound in your pocket when we dock it put the benefit down bigging up economy ignores the facts when the people got no money it will all collapse the beer is getting cheaper but we cant afford the gas i'll have a pint of sympathy - plus tax IT CAN'T GO ON FOREVER the buildings, theyre burning IT CAN'T GO ON FOREVER you're earning, we're learning now the rungs are coming off the ladder its a level playing field where no-one gets the uniform and no-one gets the deal the only way to replicate some sort of self-esteem is to redefine the way we work together, outside of the machine THIS CAN'T GO ON FOREVER this waiting, it's degrading WE BETTER HELP EACH OTHER another person, another version cos he can teach and she can fix and everyone does what they did, but free to choose the useful bits its self-control get used to it its neither working for the Man we never got to meet nor full of stress disinterest or just set on repeat WE BETTER HELP EACH OTHER another person, another version WE BETTER HELP EACH OTHER occupation co-ordination THIS SYSTEM ISN'T WORKING until the job's worth doing

about

In a country beset by economic woes, a Tory government and a strange, reactionary backlash by many young people that has led to these people being in power, a release from the Citizen Fish/Subhumans camp is especially timely. Dick Lucas has always been adept at writing in depth lyrics relating to social and political problems without making every song sound like a political tract, and the new Citizen Fish EP 'Dancing on Spikes' is a biting look at the current situation in Britain, set to a shout a long ska punk soundtrack that should have anyone' feet moving straight for the nearest dancefloor/pit. Like last years full length album 'Goods', the music on here is slightly slowed down in comparison to the bands output during the 90s and early 2000s, but its none the less foot stompingly catchy for it. Songs such as 'Unemplode', aimed at Job seeker's office and their unrealistic expectations for people to find work in this climate, or otherwise work for much lower than the amount needed to live, or 'Over', questioning the finality of the assumption that we have pulled out and 'finished' with certain middle eastern conflicts, are made more comprehensible by a slower pace, and are still catchy as fuck. The one faster song on the record, 'Write It All Down' is clearly going to be fun when your down the front with a cider in hand, but to be quite honest all six tracks are! The West Country's finest come through again.
5/5
Jono 

credits

released August 1, 2012

voice/words-Dick
guitar-Phil
bass/voice- Jasper
drums- Silas
trombone- Matt
trumpet- Alex

recorded and mixed by James and Ed
at Shockerwick Studios near Bath
27+28 Jan and 20+21 April 2012
co-released by Bluurg and Active Records

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