Ahead of a UK mini-tour in September, Glaswegian band Helicon are sharing an incendiary new single made in collaboration with Will Carruthers (former bassist in the likes of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Spectrum, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dead Skeletons). Taking aim at a bigoted, nationalistic form of 'Englishness' that's all too familiar in our reigning socio-political malaise, the blistering ‘I’m More English Than You, You Cunt’ sees Carruthers deliver a hilarious and unapologetically sardonic poem on top of a psych-rock wig-out that’s as face-melting as you’d expect from Helicon.
Talking about the single, Helicon’s vocalist and guitarist John-Paul Hughes said: “It was a real pleasure and honour to collaborate with Will. We're big fans of his, so I really wanted to work together on something. We share a similarly twisted sense of humour and view of the world so I was buzzing when he said yes. The song itself is a 3min 20second hand grenade with all the humour, anger, energy, attitude, politics and poetry you could wish for from 5 Scottish, and 1 "mainly Welsh", cunts.” Carruthers adds: “It was lovely to work on this pastoral ditty with dark polka psyche legends Helicon. It’s got a tweed tractor, a greasy snatch, the night’s watch and the grumbleweeds. It’s also got more cunts in it than parliament. Not the band.”
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