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Alchoholstaark

from Coil '78 by Coil

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Double A single release with 'Motor Industry'. On Wood Hill Records, 1979

Stop and Search was out of hand by 1978 and led to the riots of 80/81 in England. 'Sus' was used to discriminate against black people, punks and anyone the police believed to be 'suspicious'.

Just being Irish was more than suspicious then - the call was 'these murdering bastards are fanatics and we need to root them out.' But who were they? By 1979, The Guildford Four, Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six were locked up for Provisional IRA bombings, all of them, as it turned out, wrongfully convicted.

Alcoholstaark - the paranoia and fear of arrest and conviction, the isolation of those picked up in the street for being suspected and convicted of bombings, confessions to anything the police wanted extracted under torture.

The Dutch title came from the back of a bottle of pils – the cheap and strong 'medicinal diabetic' lager we drank in Shipman’s.

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Alcoholstaark


There’s no opinions I can truly call my own.
I take my orders on the latest telephone.

Don’t be surprised when they stop you in the street,
And check your baggage for forgiveness,
One drink will motivate me to get up and leave.
Could someone follow me home?

My occupation eats my body and my soul,
A dull necessity, it tightens up control.

Don’t be surprised when they stop you in the street,
And check your baggage for forgiveness,
One drink will motivate me to get up and leave.
Could someone follow me home?

There’s nothing thrilling in the final cigarette.
Nothing at all, no regrets.

Take love, from me it’s cheap and quick.
I won’t betray your final confidence.
Don’t be surprised when they stop you in the street,
Just ask your conscience for forgiveness.

Why should we worry when our judgement is divine?
Laugh at the innocents jammed between the lines.

Don’t be surprised when they stop you in the street,
And check your baggage for forgiveness,
One drink will motivate me to get up and leave.
Could someone follow me home?

There’s nothing thrilling in the final cigarette.
Nothing at all, no regrets.

Take love, from me it’s cheap and quick.
I won’t betray your final confidence.
Don’t be surprised when they stop you in the street,
Just ask your conscience for forgiveness.

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from Coil '78, released October 21, 2012

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Genre: new wave, post punk, fast, sharp, slightly chippy, good SOH, mature, attractive, desirable, not too stupid.

Members: Phil Dann (guitar, vocals), Tony Harrison (bass, vocals), , Kev Jones (drums), Finbar Lillis (vocals) Steve Curtis (percussion, vocals) ... more

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