Some people just don't get it do they?

My name is Joe and my band is called Tubelord.

Last month we released our second single. It was called ‘I Am Azerrad’, named in roundabout tribute to the mighty rock writer Michael Azerrad, author of seminal rock texts ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’ and Nirvana biography ‘Come As You Are’. At the climax there’s a line that goes “I’ll kill you Azerrad,” and it’s led to a spot of bother…

At some point over the summer Mr.Azerrad and myself had a lovely chat whilst we were in tour with Blakfish. He wanted to talk about the background behind 'I Am Azerrad' and so we did.

After meandering through topics such as D.I.Y ethics, Meneguar, him interviewing Kurt Cobain and Mark E Smith, Levi-Strauss and Jean Baudrillard, we collaboratively managed to decipher the song was about the death of authorship towards music, literature and all sorts of culture industries...This is not in a 'DIE MOTHERFUCKARRRRRRRGH' sort of way but in this sort of context.

So after a couple of months this piece appeared, and we were in SPIN magazine (we’d already been in NME, of course).

I was well pleased, my Nan rung to tell me that my Mum had told her that she should be proud but if she was honest she 'hadn't heard of the blaady thing'. I laughed.

ROIGHT! Anyway... the lovely people over at idolator.blogsnob started to cry and become overtly defensive of their Mr.Azerrad. They actually believed we wanted to kill the lovely fella. Such a shame. Maybe they didn't get it.

They definitely didn't.

I'm over it.

Bye.
x

[MP3]Tubelord - Night Of The Pencils