37 of the 52 songs recorded across 3 video-albums albums - '...furious, bleakly funny and often offensive poems and songs about Covid, Brexit and a bewildered Britain written during lockdown.'

Words by Martin Rowson, Music by Jon Tregenna, performed by a cast of actors and performers.

Martin Rowson (whose work the Daily Mail once denounced in a full-page editorial as, ‘disgusting, deranged... sick and offensive’) has written extremely challenging lyrics in response to the political and social climate surrounding the pandemic and Brexit. These were set to music by Welsh musician and playwright Jon Tregenna and performed by a cast of actors and singers.

Crits

‘Powerful stuff. Words and music as angry and disturbing as these present times.’
Ken Loach

'‘This is art as public enquiry… It’s a troubling watch but then this is weapons-grade artistic material designed to shock and unsettle and castigate. And shock it does, like licking your finger twice before inserting it into the National Grid. That grade of shocking. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.’'
Jon Gower - Nation Cymru

​'It’s not an easy listen, nor is it meant to be: unlike much pandemic-induced creativity, it hammers home the reality of the pickle into which we have been summarily purloined by a cabal of crooks, liars and thieves.'
Tom King, Morning Star

‘Another repellent, ghastly and entirely necessary piece of work from Martin Rowson.’
Robin Ince
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‘Eerily reminiscent of Christopher Logue’s jazz poetry of the 60s “Redbird”
Jonathan Pryce

‘Epically subversive, new-age War of the Worlds.’
Dan Llywelyn Hall

‘…prolific, far out and beautifully performed’
Gillies Mackinnon

‘Another repellent, ghastly and entirely necessary piece of work from Martin Rowson. Who needs to bother creating their own nightmares when Martin is so eager to draw them for us’
Robin Ince

‘There’s been some great things in and around lockdown, and this is up there. Give it a listen. Well done Martin Rowson & Jon Tregenna’
Keith Allen

‘Angry, absurd, witty and strangely sad, these songs capture the highs and lows of the Covid crisis: the personal tragedies and the public farce. Tregenna provides a rich, diverse and often haunting soundscape; while Rowson’s dexterous verse proves once again that he really can do this poetry lark. Not bad for a bloke who colours in for a living’
Luke Wright
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'...brilliant, scurrilous, angry, eclectic musical howl at our current situation and the bastards responsible for it. Big talent behind the mike with @MartinRowson and @jontreg creating magic.'
Neil Brand

'This is crying out to be a West End musical!'
Glenn Marshall

‘I love this stuff, x.’
Mark Thomas

'Well worth a listen.'
Nick Revell

Biogs
Martin Rowson is multi-award winning cartoonist, illustrator, writer, graphic novelist, broadcaster, ranter and poet. He has also authored, illustrated or contributed in one way or another to 60 books, from Lower Than Vermin: An Anatomy of Thatcher’s Britain (1986), via comic book versions of The Waste Land, Tristram Shady & The Communist Manifesto, to Stuff (2006), his memoir about clearing out his dead parents’ house which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His six thin illustrated volumes of verse include Pastrami Faced Racist & Other Verse (2018) and The Dance of Death (2019).

Jon Tregenna is a playwright and musician and wrote National Theatre Wales’ musical Hail Cremation! (about the Welsh radical druid Dr William Price), which was postponed four days before opening due to Covid. He authored the BBC ebook on Dylan Thomas, and his 2014 National Theatre Wales play (co-created with artist Marc Rees) Raw Material: Llareggub Revisted, made a Guardian ‘Top 10 Theatre’ list. He was until recently the front man for Welsh band The Mams, and in London-based 90s cult fop-rockers Fur-lined, who were once described in the NME as ‘Baffling and oddly enjoyable.'

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