Dedicatória ao Grupo Parlamentar do PS

Ainda há poucas semanas trouxe aqui a Tom Robinson Band (TRB), e agora deixo duas peças musicais desse contundente grupo, mais politizado que os The Clash.

Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band

TRB - EP Rising Free (1978)

Up Against The Wall - Tom Robinson Band

TRB - Power in the Darkness (1978)

Darkhaired dangerous schoolkids
Vicious, suspicious sixteen
Jet-black blazers at the bus stop
Sullen, unhealthy and mean
Teenage guerillas on the tarmac
Fighting in the middle of the road
Supercharged FS1Es on the asphalt
The kids are coming in from the cold

Look out, listen can you hear it
Panic in the County Hall
Look out, listen can you hear it
Whitehall (got us) up against a wall
Up against the wall...

High wire fencing on the playground
High rise housing all around
High rise prices on the high street
High time to pull it all down
White boys kicking in a window
Straight girls watching where they gone
Never trust a copper in a crime car
Just whose side are you on?

Look out, listen can you hear it
Panic in the County Hall
Look out, listen can you hear it
Whitehall (got us) up against a wall
Up against the wall...

Consternation in Brixton
Rioting in Notting Hill Gate
Fascists marching on the high street
Carving up the welfare state
Operator get me the hotline
Father can you hear me at all?
Telephone kiosk out of order
Spraycan writing on the wall

Look out, listen can you hear it
Panic in the County Hall
Look out, listen can you hear it
Whitehall got us up against a wall
Up against the wall...

Coisas do Arco da Velha (#4)

Um objecto que suponho ser relativamente desconhecido, mas que na altura teve um certo impacto num Portugal saído da ressaca do PREC. Em Inglaterra era a ressaca do punk e a TRB haveria de ter uma curta mas muito incisiva vida com apenas dois discos editados, Power in the Darkness (1978) e TRB 2 (1979). Ainda assim, tiveram na altura o devido reconhecimento nos meios musicais. A faixa título do primeiro registo não precisa de comentários adicionais às palavras de ordem. O LP continha ainda uma conjunto de canções certeiras e bem conseguidas como "Up Against the Wall", "Too Good to be True" ou "2-4-6-8 Motorway".

Tom Robinson Band, “Power in the Darkness” - Power in the Darkness (1978)