architecture, all these stories come up.’
perceptive of his surroundings and
‘European Me’, a paean to cultural
all that entails - the people; the
identity and the crossing of borders,
geography; the architecture. As an
and ‘Lockdown’, a touching tribute
artist, he has the ability to turn those
to coastal towns in winter, are two
perceptions into something beautiful
oblique examples from The Messenger.
and creative. Though the Situationists
Meanwhile
soon-to-be-released
and the Letterists before them have
second album Playland, the sublime
disappeared into the annals of history
‘Dynamo’ is - at least at face value -
in their original incarnations, their
quite literally a love song to a building.
ideals still live on in artists today, and
on
Johnny Marr is certainly one of them. When speaking of the inspiration behind themes evident in both The
By Aly Stevenson
Messenger and Playland, observation of society is a key concept. As a psychogeographer, Johnny is highly
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