Each week, we’ll be posting a brand new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Regular guitarist is visually documenting individuals, locations and occasions from his band’s 41-year run, with textual content by vocalist Jean Smith.
We’ve got a bassoonist rendered in what seems to be like blue ballpoint pen. The gauntlet has been thrown down, for positive. Typically David and I operate in a loosely nuanced type of competitors. This can be a kind of occasions, however I’ll prevail! As : David does the drawing and I write the caption, protecting the track in thoughts.
Firstly: I like that carpet (colour and texture), particularly along side the wall! Have I informed you about our lengthy Thursday-night cellphone conversations the place we focus on work on-line, ideally ones we will zoom in to inside an inch of their surfaces? We’ve been on our landlines weekly, making outstanding observations, for nearly a yr. It’s completely thrilling to, in spite of everything these years, have discovered a brand new factor we like to do collectively!
The longer I have a look at this piece, I’d like so as to add that this should be a punk-rock bassoonist, as a result of they’re solely utilizing one hand. That’s proper. Punk isn’t at all times the stereotypical black-leather jacket and three-chord guitar. Consider all of the punk climate-change scientists, punk anti-COVID activists, punk writers illuminating late-stage capitalism, working independently and collectively, in order that the overall populace, if it cared to take its eyeballs off Diddy and misinformationists afoot, may see by the “Vacant Night time Sky to locations the place hope and inspiration freely mingle with expressions of all types. Together with unlikely trying punk bassoonists.
“Vacant Night time Sky” from Sitting On Snaps (Matador, 1995) (obtain):
