September 26, 2000

Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)/All Night Long (Butcher All Night)

V/Vm with Chris De Burger and Lion El Glitchie Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)/All Night Long (Butcher All Night) V/Vm Test Records

V/Vm with Chris De Burger and Lion El Glitchie

Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)/All Night Long (Butcher All Night)
(V/Vm Test Records)

The course of true love rarely runs smoothly, this much we know. It can be a
messy business at the best of times. During the worst of times, however, it gets
even messier. And it's in times like this we turn to V/VM's master of
discontent, James Kirby, a right-thinking man from Edgeley, near
Stockport, who's made it his mission to seek out the greatest love songs of all
time so he can re-present them on an album in the style he believes they were
originally intended.

Via certain legal loopholes and the amazing V/VM
Music Copyright Publishing Service, he's managed to hack to a bloody pulp over 20
classic power-ballads from all your favourite artists. Preceding that album,
'Sick Love', is this seven-inch on which he's transformed, with
considerable skill, Chris De Burgh's 'Lady In Red' into a sinister,
gut-churning, slow-mo judder, while his annihilation of Lionel Richie's
'All Night Long' becomes an extraordinary streak of visceral, evil white
noise beneath which Richie is audibly suffocating.

It's cold-blooded,
premeditated murder on vinyl and, unlike every other record this week, sends a
shiver down your spine and chills you to the bone. This is no novelty record:
he's doing us all a favour. V/VM is diseased. You need his love.

Piers Martin

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