WOEBOT

Rampant Anglophilia.

This is a picture of The Palace Guard one of those Nuggets-era psych-punk bands from the USA. They had a hit called "Falling Sugar", their one concession to practicality was not wearing Bearskins. One of my grandfathers (the milkman's dad) was a guard, I wonder if he was aware of this lot? Mmm, unlikely. Hard to imagine anything like this happening these days.

Though look at this:

More recent. No wave disco from 1985, the cover only slightly giving the game away (The Communist Party etc). Made ridiculous by patently affected British accents. Strange attractor here Joy Division/New Order not The Beatles.

Anybody got any more fun examples? There must be loads of this stuff! I think it's all dead healthy, the antidote to American Isolationism. Next week French people pretend to be Americans.

Posted by Woebot at July 17, 2003 08:00 AM