Getting peckish? How about this intriguing oratorio from Lydia Lunch?
Do you have to be out of it to be into it? It's worth pondering when you're watching Lydia Lunch, a sprawling cacophony of spoken word protest over a saxophone of jazz motifs emanating from the note-sprouting wacky man standing at the other side of the stage. It's a tad weird, occasionally seeming like a sporadic epitome of meaning rushing from this crazy woman shouting on stage as if in a coma of tongues, like it's all come to make sense here, all come home to roost, and maybe those wide-eyed participants at the front with dropped jaws gawping and hanging on to every last word as if it were the word of Christ were thinking that. But for those of us analysing it in a professional light the whole thing seemed often nonsensical and repetitive.
A good idea, and in the modern mainstream musical context, seemingly new, but it's not original, there have been plenty of more pertinent orators of poetry stood with musical accompaniment before Lydia Lunch, think for example, Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek. But the words splurge forth with contempt and fire and violation of English linguistic rules and a passion for the convictions she holds and she holds her own on the stage very well, commanding her presence with audacity and drawing the crowd in with such dynamics in the delivery of her free speech.
Yet, you have to be in the mood I suppose, otherwise it could very easily seem to drag and the temptation of going back to one's chalet to polish off another bottle of Southern Comfort and make a healthy attempt at getting through the industrial-sized bottle of Gordon's Gin could become too much. Well indeed, an interesting oratorio, but in terms of placement, more suited to a 2AM stint when getting deep and contemplative after a few refreshing puffs of a strange green coloured cloud that's lingering above your head have been inhaled, I think, maybe, well, thinking about, yeah man, this is really good, this is like, like really all making sense, you know? Totally getting it all right, totally saying things that make sense here and now, and son on...