Don’t you dare tell me 2003 wasn’t a better time. God bless you for that, Dick Valentine, you barmy sod. (That’s your warning for the video below.)įire was a number seven album in the UK.
Where a top-five video featuring a man dressed as a kinky Abraham Lincoln singing about same-sex social establishments was taken for it was. Where being a fascist was broadly frowned upon. A place where the creation of a mass market vegan sausage roll wouldn’t have been front page news. The success of Fire in the UK, a victory for the oddballs, would not happen on this scared, lost, increasingly conservative little island today.
The humour at the heart of Electric Six might make a retrospective article about that record a light-hearted affair. What do sarcasm, disco, limitless sexual innuendo and an obsession with nuclear war have in common? Why, it’s the debut album by Electric Six, of course!
