ste mccabe - pink bomb ep

It starts as it means to go on, by deflating prejudice. ‘Huyton Scum’ aims it’s sniper fire at a ‘hard nut’ who can’t understand why lesbians won’t sleep with him, like the porno mags promised. It’s a relentless pisstake that highlights the repressed double standrads of homophobes: “He don’t like the queers, the queers make him sick / even the ones he forces to go down and suck on his dick.” Between pop songs and catchy choruses, things become notably darker with ‘See You In Hell’, which throws up imagery of burning churches, destroyed livers and the angsty chant of “Change the record!” It has the feel of an early Manic Street Preachers track, twisted with anger and propelled by fast beats. McCabe jokes on the sleeve that people keep telling him to “get a proper band” - and it’s true, this record sounds like it was an entirely solo effort. However, the lo-fi fuzziness has a kind of Red-Bull style shock appeal, and together with his lyrics go towards making a short, sharp bullet of a record. Mccabe is kicking against the pricks - and declaring homsexual cliches bankrupt.