I was just adding something to the 'This Is Music' page and realised how important the William Blake reference is here.
William Blake wrote Jerusalem, which is about England and in particular, the use of spirituality and christian values to free the 'Dark Satanic Hills' of the Industrialised Northern England from the dispair and devastation that the mill owners created during the industrial revelation.
Blakes 'London' continues on the theme of the poor and how they are downtrodden by society and how terrible that makes London.
I think the reason it has a resonance for the Verve is that they are from one of the towns that Blake was specifically talking about, Wigan in Lancashire. Moving to London to persue a music career, to seek your fortune means leving the past behind as 'History' and then sadly finding that London is also a shit-hole and that working in the music industry is like being a mill worker in the 18th century.
All that summed up by Ashcroft in "Reminds me of what I have run from".
I was just adding something to the 'This Is Music' page and realised how important the William Blake reference is here.
William Blake wrote Jerusalem, which is about England and in particular, the use of spirituality and christian values to free the 'Dark Satanic Hills' of the Industrialised Northern England from the dispair and devastation that the mill owners created during the industrial revelation.
Blakes 'London' continues on the theme of the poor and how they are downtrodden by society and how terrible that makes London.
I think the reason it has a resonance for the Verve is that they are from one of the towns that Blake was specifically talking about, Wigan in Lancashire. Moving to London to persue a music career, to seek your fortune means leving the past behind as 'History' and then sadly finding that London is also a shit-hole and that working in the music industry is like being a mill worker in the 18th century.
All that summed up by Ashcroft in "Reminds me of what I have run from".
Genius, shear genius.