Farina’s early nineties post-rock scene contemporaries Codeine and Bitch Magnet are hauling gloriously their brontosaurus bodies over the comeback coals, but Farina’s band Karate always stood out from the tranquilised hardcore crowd, with their diminished sevenths and jazzy licks.
Today he’s a born again acoustic troubadour, laying rewarding mid-west poetry professor verbiage over finger-picked traditional sounding tunes, not unlike that other bookish math rock graduate, David Grubbs.
Prick Up Your Ears describes small town soldiers departing for Iraq with commendable sobriety, in a folksy idiom that emphasises the their timeless circumstance.
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork