On the 24th September, I celebrate my 40th anniversary on the planet and what a great week it is shaping up to be. On the day itself, Skunk Anansie’s Skin is doing a live stream in support of her autobiography, It Takes Blood & Guts, then the following day, the woman who has single-handedly got us through 2020, Róisín Murphy drops her fifth album, Róisín Machine and now it has been announced that our favourite Oakland-by-way-of-Tuczon queer post-modern punk artiste, Seth Bogart is also releasing his next album, Seth Bogart Presents….Men on the Verge of Nothing, on the very same day. Party!

The album has already been preceded by the most excellent ‘Dawn’s Lips’ & ‘Lavender Heights’ about which Seth says, ‘In my 20s and early 30s I was struggling with major depression involving my fathers suicide and not knowing how to deal with it. I would often escape thru drugs and alcohol. One weekend my friends and I took mushrooms and went to see Britney Spears in Sacramento and afterwards found ourselves partying in the gay neighborhood AKA Lavender Heights. This song is about that time, and what an oblivious time it was to be alive. Oblivious to our privilege. Oblivious to the racial inequalities and never-ending list of problems that are now so in our face with social media that anyone with a conscience can no longer ignore and pretend everything is OK.’

You can pre-order the album now at www.wackywacko.com