Get Yerself a 'Proper Job' - Micko Has A Dig
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 ...