Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 12:17 pm
There we came and lived for eight months. The holy town of Kettering, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Northern Ireland. The singing paradise of white trash and decadence, the perfect place for the death of the mind and the burial of the soul. Pierre Alexander, that's I, and Seb...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 11:52 am
The modern world is about globalization. Globalization means immigration. Immigration brings controversial thoughts, and controversial thoughts need controversial songs. You only realize what nationalism and xenophobia are really about when you leave your country and put yourself in the shoes of the...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 11:26 am
UK, like most countries in the world, is about money and cash. You need cash to buy cigarettes. You need cash to drink in a pub. You need cash to get a full english breakfast on sunday morning. You need cash to fuel the beast. And where do you get cash? From the cash machine of course. The trouble i...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 11:08 am
There are two escape ways from the town of Kettering: the plane for Luton to reach the continent and the East Midlands train to London. London may not appeal to you, but when you've spent two weeks in a row in Kettering, it feels good to go there and enjoy some sort of life again. I remember the fee...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 8:49 am
We're a punk band, and like early punk bands we give an ear from time to time to reggae music. This song is about the wind. Wind is the flow of air or other gases that compose an atmosphere. When a difference in pressure exists between two adjacent air masses, the air tends to flow from the region o...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 6:46 am
We were both spending money on rent, beer and disgusting food, so we had to make money first. We did that by working for the British Council, as language assistants in Northamptonshire schools. The only thing I can say about this sweet experiment is that the Pink Floyd line "We don't need no educati...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 6:05 am
It was already winter when we both arrived in Kettering in October, and it was still pretty much like winter when we left in May. In the meantime, we were desperately waiting for spring to come and bring some light on our pale faces and warmth to our frozen bodies. One night in February, we were sit...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 25, 2009, 5:38 am
Sunday, in Kettering. "Not much to do", as Sebastian put it. And not much to say either, apparently. Sunday is the day you really realize what it is to be stranded away from home, on an island made of bricks. Rainy, windy, chilly island. The options on sunday were quite clear: english breakfast or n...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 24, 2009, 7:43 pm
I hate Christmas, I really do. I hated it even more up there in Kettering because it meant more people buying more christmas cards in a country where the birthday & christmas cards business already counts for half of the gross domestic product. Apart from that, I apologize for the excessive reverb o...
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Pierre A. posted an article on The Bank: England for sale - Jan 24, 2009, 2:50 pm
Early pregnancy is well spread throughout the UK. It's a common thing to go to Sainsbury's and meet a 16 year-old girl pushing a buggy along with her food & beer trolley. Well, you don't actually meet her because you avoid talking to her, for your own safety. The interesting thing is: if you decide ...
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