It certainly would, Joe. But you can have a toot on my megaphone if you like! Gavin Friday discusses the finer points of sexual politics not to mention the post-Freudian subtext to his stunning new meisterwork Shag Tobacco with Dr Joe Jackson. Our man in the white coat concluded: Gavin s time has come. But is the world finally read
Rock n roll has finally caught up with Gavin Friday. The same European tide which swept one of his original heroes, Scott Walker, back into the limelight, has similarly helped define a space in which Friday s concept art can breathe, alongside the boring morass of Anglo-American music we call rock these days.
With his latest album, Shag Tobacco, Gavin Friday has also delivered the best four-in-the-morning album this country has ever produced the musical equivalent of a world inhabited by the likes of Joyce, Beckett, Ballagh, Patrick McCabe, post-Achtung Baby U2 and their European soul-brothers, Bertholt Brecht/Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel as they sit down to sip a cocktail in the late, lamented Mr Pussy s Cafe-de-luxe on Suffolk Street. (Jesus, that must be your longest sentence ever, Joe Ed.)
