We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

big boner

by sonja berlin-jones

/
1.
big boner 57:55
buy track

about

It's unlikely that anyone will want to hear all fifty-seven minutes and fifty-five seconds of this, or even just fifty-five seconds of it, or even five seconds of it, or any of it, or even want to know that it exists or I exist or they themselves exist or that Worthing Pier exists - but it does, and yes that is yet another photo taken on our wonderful expedition to the East almost a week ago.

Last night I was over at the Art House to watch Attila The Stockbroker yet again in all his guises and then Blyth Power who I expected to be some kinda of new hip indie teenage guitar group but actually turned out to be like a hippy-punk family who've been around forever and who I probably once saw in that acutely embarrassing two weeks of my life when I actually pretended that ATV and Here & Now were any bloody good and saw them in a tent till I realised they weren't. But I quite liked Blyth Power last night.

The singer/drummer was like a very short likeable posh scruffy dirty John Lydon after an inkpot had exploded on his wig. For decades I've gone around boring people about how I hate it when musos talk and talk between the music. No more. I've changed. I am now just so bored of the music at gigs that I find the only good things are (can be) the chatty bits in between. This guy was quite funny and saved the night.

Same goes for Attila, and he told us about his wife being on Worthing Council (small world !!!!!!) and how she and he had battled some Tories or something gallant and yes we again had his story of how he saw the Clash in 1977. Well yes so did I. Truly. He saw them at Hammersmith. I saw them in Southampton, at the Top Rank (RIP). I was going to interrupt this long piece of music with tales of my punk rock years. No I wasn't. I was going to break it up into pieces and chat in high-personality-style about the government and my life and just how craaazy everything is in my life.

Or would if I could but I can't so I won't. Because I've been flaffing about all morning doing this music and now I'm going to sleep on the sofa and then I shall go to the cinema on my own - and don't feel sorry for me there, going alone to the cinema is one of my most perfect and precious experiences - all yesterday my stomach was slightly twisted up with the knowledge that I'd "got to" go to a gig in the evening with others, today I am as light and happy as can be at the thought of sitting alone in a cinema later today. We need to spread the word - it is possible to be unpopular and a loner and still be happy. In fact I don't know anyone who is the opposite and who is the opposite - if you can work that out, which is possible. I only found any kind of happiness when I stopped looking for it and started wandering in the opposite direction - it's not over there, it's over here.

...................

recorded this morning, photo by Vanessa Oliver at the end of Worthing Pier last week

in case you think all my titles are meaningless/random - oh lordy no - and that this one is a bit desperate then do click on the image to blow it up to its full-sized glory and on the right I think you'll see how it makes a bit of sense

credits

released April 16, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

sonja berlin-jones image

sonja berlin-jones Southampton, UK

katharinebeastman.bandcamp.com

contact / help

Contact sonja berlin-jones

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like sonja berlin-jones, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now