专辑简介

When Romford skiffle-punk ensemble Corporal Machine & The Bombers first opened for The Television Personalities, Dan Treacy joked "you lot look like you've just walked out the Job Centre"! At the time, day jobs included gravedigger, welder and Newham Council bin man! Their performance that evening secured them a regular TVPs support slot. Corporal Machine & The Bombers have crafted an album debut of life-affirming songs mixing the Bombers twin guitar and brass knees-ups with the Corporal's mischievous gin-soaked kitchen sink dramas kicking off with a super-strength tasting in their nearby Itchycoo Park (The Days Of White Lightning), then out west along the District Line for a heartbreak (Gloucester Road) and stories in between on a hedonistic and at times wreckless diet - Five A Day the album's guitar-pop lead single. In a world without meaning we all need a release, and the Bombers euphonic blend of skiffle, old school mod (R&B) and crafted guitar riffs is there to drag your head out of the oven and rejoice in the fact that we're all going down, while the Corporal's sweet and sour poetry joins the dots in your head to show you what you already half knew - that there can be happiness at the bottom of a glass, the masses aren't to be trusted and that crack coc*ine is a very risky business!