Commiserations! You have reached the Breadwinner site. On it, you will find extracts from the record that no one, not least the band themselves, wanted you to hear. Ever.
By exclusive arrangement with one of the ex-band members, we have negotiated the first partial public exhibition of some of the music from this extraordinary album, currently and conservatively valued at £xx in the latest edition of Record Collectors Rare Record Price Guide. We will leave it up to you whether the high premium placed on it by aficionados is at all justified.
What follows, both here and elsewhere on Breadwinner MySpace, is a series of archive documents that provide some small insight into the group, their work and their history, convoluted as it is.
From what we understand, Breadwinner was the propaganda wing of a little known collective of dole-queue provocateurs known as the Dogloo Art Group. Steered by a committee of four the pseudonymous Fay Allright, Morris de Cony, Big Bob McGrath and Mr Rubbish this subterranean grouping staged various happenings and non-happenings in and around the English South Coast between 1984 and 1990. Their work quickly came under the scrutiny of the British authorities, and by 1987, a vicious smear campaign forced the leading lights of the Dogloo Art Group into hiding.
Though the hard core of activists continued its work in a variety of secret locations, little more was heard of them. But Breadwinner regrouped for one miraculous last stand in spring 1990 when, during one marathon three day session, the entire xx-song Give Us A Light, You Bastard album was recorded. It was, as Mr Rubbish admits today, a requiem for rocknroll. We wanted to make the record that would kill rocknroll good and proper, he says, and we were so successful in our mission that the group decided it was far too important to release into a bland and overblown marketplace. Perhaps they were right. Over to you
