Corporal Machine & The Bombers are a 6-piece from Essex. Having been laid off from his job as a bin-man, Euan Hartley, who had previously played solo as Euan Corporal Machine, assembled a bunch of musicians under the collective name The Bombers and began to channel his frustration into his music. It beat sitting around on his arse whinging about being unemployed.
The result is a rollicking, riotous punk-edged skiffle-ska knees-up. The new voice of the working classes in recession-hit Britain, Corporal Machine delivers a politically charged catalogue of everything that's wrong in our society, from 'kids with guns all mugging each other / all on drugs and they're all touching each other / pregnant at eight on your sink estate' to matters of education and the minimum wage keeping 'the working poor like human slaves,' before exploding into a rabble-rousing, terrace chant chorus designed to 'cheer up Britain, let's raise a glass / Cheer up Britain and let's have a laugh' (pronounced as 'ave a larf'.)
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Unpretentious and energetic, Corporal Machine and the Bombers are evidence that it's not all bad news.
Corporal Machine & The Bombers on Myspace
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