"All the joy of love for everything good is in me, though I can see all the bad things in the world; in fact this twentieth century urban blues music derides and illustrates them more sharply than ever. Yet I'm not scared and I'm not down about it: I can see what needs to be done to get away from them. It is the party: I feel that you have to party, you have to party harder than ever. It is the only way. It is your duty to show that you are still alive. Political sloganeering and posturing mean nothing; you have to celebrate the joy of life in the face of all those grey forces and dead spirits who control everything, who fuck with your head and livelihood anyway, if you aren't one of them. You have to let them know that in spite of their best efforts to make you like them, to make you dead, you are still alive. This isn't the complete answer, because it will all still be there when you stop, but it is the best show in town right now. It is certainly the one I want to be at." Irving Welsh
