Blog: State Magazine

"I wanted to use the Union Jack as a backdrop but I was told that wouldn't go down very well…I wonder why…?" , Childish sighs, ever the contrary devil before launching into another rib-rattling garage gem. Like his fellow grumpy old stalwart Mark E. Smith, Mr. Childish has been at this racket for an awfully long time, peddling his uncompromising three chord bashing garage-punk dirges, falling in and out of favour with the hipsters for over twenty years. Still as obstinate as ever what you see is what you get at a Childish gig, a wizened [...]