The Stretford End
Easterhouse - Waiting For The Redbird [ROUGH 124 UK 1989 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Musicians don't write many protest songs these days, and it seems politics has been eradicated from popular music. I'm not too sure why, but during my youth it was prevalent. Somewhere there is the unpublished history of protest rock from Dylan to Chumbawumba via the seventies & eighties cocktail of Dead Kennedys, The Clash & Red Wedge - Bragg, Weller and The Redskins etc. Maybe Chumbawamba hitting the top ten in 1997 was to signal the death of the political rock, maybe people lost interest, maybe we grew older and less angry. These days kids are too busy with TikTok and music is deletable - perhaps we were more literate back then? Bono hasn't waved his white flag in anger since 1983 and Weller has chilled somewhat with age. Manchester's Easterhouse (named after the infamous Glasgow housing estate) were a political rock band and one of four Manchester bands following in the vapour...