MICK FARREN (R.I.P.) - Vampires Stole My Lunch Money

MICK FARREN  Vampires Stole My Lunch Money  lp/cd  1978/2008

Trouble coming everyday / Half price drinks / I don't want to go this way / I want to drink* / Son of a millionaire / Zombie line* / Bela Lugosi / People call you crazy* / Fast Eddie / Let me in, damn you* / (I know from) Self destruction / Drunk in the morning.
Produced by Larry Wallis.

Mick Farren: lead vocals / Larry Wallis : guitars, backing vocals / Andy Colquhoun : bass, backing vocals / Wilko Johnson : guitar on* / Alan Powell : drums / Chrissie Hynde, Sonja Kristina, Maria, R2D2 & Susie : backing vocals / Will Stallybrass : harmonica / Chas Heatherington : the machine rented to the Pink Floyd(!) .

Mick Farren — journalist, science fiction novelist, author, singer, founding member of the (Social) Deviants and Pink Fairies, Motörhead songwriter — cut his first solo album with a nascent version of the Fairies immediately upon leaving the Deviants in 1969. After spending some years writing about, rather than making, music, he returned to that side in '77 with a four-song 7- inch on Stiff that has its moments but is hardly a milestone. The following year, however, the Englishman dived back into the deep end of rock with the harrowing "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money", showing the junior nihilists just how grim, serious and personal music could be. Released at the height of the punk wave but springing from a much deeper creative well, "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money" is Farren's solo masterwork. With musical assistance from Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, Chrissie Hynde and others, he dishes out a harrowingly honest collection of songs about drinking, dissolution, depression, self-destruction and desperation. About as powerful as rock gets, this nakedly painful LP is most definitely not recommended to sissies, moralists and born-again Christians. TrouserPress

Mick Farren, lead singer for the Deviants, collapsed on stage last night (July 27) in London. He passed away shortly thereafter.
According to his Facebook page, Farren was making a rare live appearance with a new lineup of the Deviants for the Atomic Sunshine Festival at the Borderline Club in London when he collapsed on stage during his performance. He was later pronounced dead.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/29/mick-farren

Mick Farren, auteur, et chanteur, compositeur, figure de la contre-culture, est mort à 69 ans. Il a été victime d'un malaise le 27 juillet sur scène avec son groupe The Deviants.
Farren est né à Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, il écrivait pour le journal International Times, mais aussi pour NME, il est notamment auteur de The Titanic Sails At Dawn polemic, publié le 19 juin 1976, considéré comme précurseur du punk. Ses mémoires Give The Anarchist a Cigarette est un témoignage de la contre-culture Britannique des années 60, il a écrit 23 romans, 11 livres, et 4 sur Elvis Presley. 'Elvis Died For Somebody’s Sins But Not Mine' est sorti cette année.
Farren était aussi musicien, et a formé The Deviants en 1967, le groupe a sorti trois albums entre 1967 et 1969 : Ptoof!, Disposable, et 3. Il a composé pour Hawkwind ou Motörhead, et permis à MC5 et William Burroughs de participer au Festival Phun City. Politiquement très engagé, il a lutté contre la guerre du Vietnam, et fondé the White Panthers à Londres. Source: F. Zegut dans son blog Zegut

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