During their set they dedicated the song "Soiled Skulls" to the Queen Mother, who had died the day before, in a not entirely favorable way. "She was a hundred and two!" shouted a well-meaning audience member. Years later when I was teaching a class on British culture to a bunch of Chinese teenagers, I thought of this moment -- an anarchist punk band celebrating the death of a member of the royal family, and one of their fans defending her -- as the most quintessentially British thing I saw in the two months I spent there.
My request, then: Can somebody please send me an mp3 of "Soiled Skulls?" It was a great song, but the closest I have come to finding it is a 30 second clip on Last.Fm. Apparently it originally appeared on a UK charity compilation called Audioscope.
P.S. Incidentally, during the second band's set at the same show, the promoter cut the sound to announce that John Travolta had been killed in a car accident in America, and played a recording of Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," for some reason, in memoriam. The show then continued and the next day I found out that John Travolta had not died after all.
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