one last dose...
cover art by Steve Aylett
... later in the lift down to the lobby your BMG P.R. officer confides their strategy to you, "I told him you were a character like Dame Edna”
This idea of a character is to see barely half the picture for that character was never a separate entity, it sprang from the well-spring of collaborative magical thinking. Thinking about conjuring, wigs and being rubbish entertainers but still feeling a sense of collective triumph when forty people gasped in awe. This is where you found your musical voice. A theatrical yet absurdly real version of how to be a pop singer. Prior to this you had the mechanics (knew the chords) but not the key to a parallel universe where empathy, kindness and wonder rules. David Devant and his Spirit Wife upstairs at the Rock in East Brighton was your alchemical crucible. It seems like a neat version of backwards causality then that you should call yourself The Vessel the alchemical symbol for the soul. Welcome to the world of cardboard cutout soul.
This idea of a character is to see barely half the picture for that character was never a separate entity, it sprang from the well-spring of collaborative magical thinking. Thinking about conjuring, wigs and being rubbish entertainers but still feeling a sense of collective triumph when forty people gasped in awe. This is where you found your musical voice. A theatrical yet absurdly real version of how to be a pop singer. Prior to this you had the mechanics (knew the chords) but not the key to a parallel universe where empathy, kindness and wonder rules. David Devant and his Spirit Wife upstairs at the Rock in East Brighton was your alchemical crucible. It seems like a neat version of backwards causality then that you should call yourself The Vessel the alchemical symbol for the soul. Welcome to the world of cardboard cutout soul.
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The Best of The Vessel is the utterly astonished new album that brings together songs from the last 20 years of Mikey Georgeson's musical art projects. Starting with Pimlico (a song so good Melody Maker made it single of the week two weeks running) released with the legendary camp-victorian art school vaudevillians David Devant & his Spirit Wife through to the vinegar-sweet pop of My Heroine released as Mikey Georgeson and The Civilised Scene in 2015 "the intensity of which has been rarely heard in pop for quite some time" The Aug Stone Quietus.