I started the draft of today's post several times on the back of the news following the publication of Sue's Gray's report on the government's "lockdown socialising". This version is only 12 pages - we're promised it in full when the police investigations into 12 of the 16 events covered in the report have concluded - but it's a damning indictment of the currently incumbent PM and his cronies. The sheer contempt and complete lack of remorse that he continues to display is galling. His (surely inevitable) political downfall is tempered only by the thought of how much money he stands to make from the consultancy/non-exec director/public speaking racket that awaits former politicians, no matter how incompetent they are. Shame on you and those politicians like you, who smirk whilst being confronted with your lies and obfuscations. Shame on you.
In an attempt to offer some balance, musically if not politically, here's a Boris that doesn't make my hackles rise every time I hear them. Boris Dlugosch has been releasing music for over 25 years now (!) but for me his peaks will always be his collaborations with the ever-incredible Róisín Murphy. In reverse chronological order, with titles that seem spookily apt for the aforementioned Bozo, we have Never Enough from 2013 and Look Around You from 2001. Both pumping, exuberant club tunes but with videos featuring far too little of Ms. Murphy, to be honest.
This is easily remedied by going back to their first collaboration in 1999, Boris' remix of Moloko's Sing It Back which transformed a modestly-successful single into a ubiquitous global smash when re-released. And a video with Róisín Murphy being, well, brilliantly Róisín Murphy.
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