Babyshambles: Afrobeat
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Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek has told the Daily Star that his band’s new record will ditch pop nonsense for tribal beats and adventurous experimentation.
The 29-year-old was talking to the rag after singer Pete Doherty’s release from prison a few days ago.
“It’s a really interesting time for us,” he said. “Myself, Pete, and Mick [Whitnall, guitarist] are all working on solo stuff as well as the band, plus I’m DJing at lots of festivals this summer, so it’s a real melting pot of ideas. The new tunes are sounding a lot less obvious. We don’t have to throw in the big single any more.“There are longer songs on there that are more about the musical arrangement, plus there’s a pumping tribal thing going on – which is great for the others, but not so great for me as it wears me out.”
To be fair it doesn’t look like there’s any direct mention of Africa in this story, so we’ll have to agree that, either: a) Ficek talked about “African tribal beats” in a part of the conversation that wasn’t reported by Daily Star journalist Kim Dawson; or b) Daily Star journalist Kim Dawson has heard the word “tribal” and arrived at ‘Africa’ and in the process exposed herself, her sub-editor and her paper for the Orientalist small-brains they are.
Probably a), then.
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This sounds
terrifying
I never expected to come across a reference to Edward Said
on DiS.
Nice one, Kev.
THE DAILY STAR IS A QUALITY READ
Take it back.
I'm gonna go for both b) and c)
where c) is "DiS journalist Kev Kharas has read the words 'African tribal beats' and arrived at 'Afrobeat', in the process etc etc etc..."
Sorry.
Did no-one hear their last EP?
Cod-raggae pap. Sub-Dennis Brown shite. Awful.
"We don’t have to throw in the big single any more."
Since when? Have they achieved Led Zeppelin levels of popularity or something?
?
kimya dawson writes for the daily star, bangin.
I don't get why people hail her as genius.
"NICK VALENSI WRAPPED HIS LONG LONG ARMS AROUND ME!"
Lame attack!
but
didn't you see Juno it was awesome also she sang one time with Jeffrey Lewis who is totally an authentic indie rock star
I didn't really dig Juno
Bit contrived. Full of sullen kids having the following edgy exchanges:
"What up Holmes?"
"Don't salt my game Little Miss Sunshine"
"Wow you've the demean-her of a tequila swillin babychanger today"
"Hey Bunny boiler step your eggo away from my shmeggo"
"Listen Broseph I'm just chitshattin wit ya, don't get all Seth Rogen up in my Tuesday pilates class"
"I'm pregnant Charlie Brown, that's what's going down"
"Oh"
if you can't do sarcasm
then what can I do?
this
is funny
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