Give ΅―Em Enough Soap
- 15 Mar 07, 07:00 PM
Recently, I watched the Ulster punk documentary, ΅®Shell Shock Rock΅―. In this classic by John T Davis, we follow three spikey kids into the toilets of the infamous Harp Bar in Belfast. It΅―s a terrifying reminder of the facilities we used to endure: flaking paint, hardcore graffiti and leaking, busted cubicles. But that΅―s also how it was at CBGBs in New York and the music was no worse because of it. Certainly, you could never argue that the music had been sanitised.
These days, you enter the gents in the local clubs and there΅―s a smiling bloke with a portable cosmetics stall, offering to buff your cuticles and clip your errant nasal hair. This affronts me in a strange way. Firstly because it΅―s a rather demeaning way to make a living. Also, because someone in the venue is probably getting a financial kick-back. I guess it΅―s proof that now we've got a reasonable economy, but do we really need to pay someone else to squirt our soap dispensers?
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