Lonelady
i/Look/
lonelady/brace yourself/because nothing is
true and nothing is untrue/for those who look to
Warp of Sheffield and outer space and inside their collective head/ for signs of life/noise/and something else/not found somewhere else/
listen/this is/for those who want to see these words (the diagram of
bones form a geometry of murder)(the
world of the inner skull) in a promotional bulletin alerting you to/something else in music/coming your way/the dirty and diseased blank and
disjointed clear eyed and cut up/ guitar/and ballardian bass and neu
sway and
snap cerebral judgements and a
ghostly free for all
space around the voice and thinking/ where fresh and hidden meanings
lurk/ and a change of
pace and heavy breathing on the scandalizing surface and ballet drums and crimes of the
future and time lapse rhythms and lost and found sounds and the
martian moors and the outside of everything/stop/
move/I'm told she's supported wire/I suppose she has/she might also have supported
monochrome set patti smith and the bush tetras/she might have been Fac 17/or she might have sung two shows with Section 25 and once met Blue Orchids around the back of
a cinema showing Existenz/she might be the love/hate/
beat child of a
Bunnyman and a
Foxx/of a
Stipe and a Smith/of a
lullaby and a lament/of
shadowplay and little Johnny jewel/gertrude stein and elizabeth cotten/the lone ranger and yoko ono/howl and faust and/ I don't know/I'd like to see some made up
details/
the music/sounds like a soundtrack to some made up
details/she sounds (
tense) like she wants your
attention/I'm told she has already had a bit of attention/I'm sure she has/from those that give early attention/I'm sure
she has a real
name/I like the idea she hasn't/like she really wants us to mind our own business/if I was in
charge we'd never
know her real name/or
lonelady is her real name/or she sold her real name to get the cash to buy her first
guitar/which she plays as though it is a deviant instrument/able to
traumatize/I naturally think of the
flesh and metal guitar of the banshees/mackay and mcgeoch and even smith and carruthers/when the future was filled with guitars that crashed into your senses/because
brutalisation had a place in pop/ferocity and
secrets too/guitars you like to hear
crushed and crammed onto seven inch singles/where they know their place and can
cut into your
life/so it's good to know that immaterial is the first of a series of seven inch singles/leading up to a first album/early 2010/produced by guy fixsen who has/I'm told/worked with the breeders/my
bloody valentine/stereolab/I'm told these things/
so I'm telling you/and she's a pop singer/and I'm a pop writer/and she's one to watch/
lonelady/but watch your step/
end message//paulmorley///151009
