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Thread #108674   Message #2265127
Posted By: KeithofChester
18-Feb-08 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: E Carthy/S Lakeman on Englishness
Subject: RE: E Carthy/S Lakeman on Englishness
"...Perhaps if we can just locate those young people with a bit of fire in their belly........England will break free the icy hand of The Fisher King and all will be well in the Garden of Albion".

Oh, they exist alright. They are just in bands like the Arctic Monkeys and the Kaiser Chiefs and were in a band called the Libertines. Most in their own generation have spotted them and their songs except those that restrict their musical diet to only "folk". Several of them seem to have made it through the "dangerous" age of 27 too, despite their copious consumption of "substances".