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Meeting Micko Westmoreland: Part 1 Doing A Proper Job It’s been a fascinating couple of weeks at SpideWriter.com Towers, what with a Hollywood actor hitting town with his band, Norwich’s first Zero BPM drone festival featuring various bits of electronica tech and the Embers choir, then having to get out to La Securité’s gig at Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom on Wednesday.      Then to top it all, I had the absolute pleasure of meeting up with Micko Westmoreland, of Micko & The Mellotronics to talk about the launch of his third album, The   Trinity , which is available as a CD and in all streaming formats from 12 th   June 2026. Micko & The Mellotronics first came to my attention with the single ‘Proper Job’ earlier this year.  It struck a chord with me, following my recent visit to the Play Produce Promote youth project in Great Yarmouth, and given the crisis in youth employment, the defenestration of entry level work by A.I., and the obligation of older ...

New Single Proper Job on the divided state of Creative Britain   When The Clash recorded Career Opportunities for their first album, (when I was a teenager), my mates and I all knew what they were shouting about.  Unemployment was on its way past the three million mark, thanks to the implementation of Thatcher’s neo-liberal Chicago School of Economics shock doctrine experiment.   Nearly fifty years later, (yes, fifty years) the career opportunities have been re-shaped following another ten years of Tory misguided and divisive austerity policies.  Career opportunities are still not knocking and jobs are definitely only being offered for no much better reason than to keep youngsters off the dole, as Job Seekers’ Allowance was previously known colloquially.  So, bravo  Micko and The Mellotronics who are drawing attention to the increasing gap between the haves and have nots in the music and arts world in their new single ‘Proper Job’ released ...