"Pop music for the cynical present -- bright, breezy, sardonic, witty, a work of dazzling luminosity that confirms Phil Ochs’s contention that ’In such an ugly time, the true protest is beauty.’"
"Essential for anyone who thinks that rock, politics and humour can’t occupy the same mental and aesthetic space" - The Wire (UK)
Included in The Wire magazine’s list of "60 singers and songs that broke the mould" (May 2004) for his personal anthem ’The Ideal’ ; Bing Selfish is the dapper crooning Dean Martin of the disaffected and disenfranchised. A South London myth whose songs of intrigue / betrayal / lust / science and imagination scan the 20th century and beyond...holding a hand out in a lyrical gesture of hope to those living under the yolk of the Fab Me generation.
In 1965 Bobbie Dylan was laying his ear on the highway of chaos, creativity and confusion and Bringing it all back home, now and Selfish is doing the same only better, he’s Binging it all back home.
Bing Selfish is a suave, debonair, sophisticated, well travelled, articulate, politically hip, witty, sharp, free-thinking, modest individual. An elusive creature, a chameleon on the street of reality, for as he himself says "Life is change, change is life".
According to his still unpublished autobiography, Bing Selfish was born in the small village of Dzhebel in Southern Bulgaria in the year 1900. Unlikely as this might seem he refuses to accept any other version of events and indeed has been seen to get most upset when commentators observe that his behaviour and attitude seem more reflective of some anglo-irish parvenu born in the late fifties/early sixties and raised in the South of England than a romantic continental-style bohemian.
The story continues to this day...
"A phemonenon in the galaxy of songsters today" - Chris Cutler
"I imagine his character as a self pitying drunk, a self loathing homosexual, a bitter poli-sci professor, or all of the above" - Options USA
BING SELFISH MUSIC VIDEO!!!
Bing Selfish - Now Way (from ’Last Of The Bohemians’ CD, El Frenzy, 2007). No way a music video! Enjoy!
Listen to a sampler album of the music of Bing Selfish on LAST.fm
JANUARY 2008 : NEW BING SELFISH CD ’The Bing Selfish Radio Show – First Series’ RELEASED !!!!
GRAB IT WHILE YOU CAN, ONLY £10/€15
The Bing Selfish Radio Show – First Series
(CD: El Frenzy)
Imagine an empire, imagine an empire that encompasses the entire world with
the exception of Australia and Patagonia. Imagine that empire is ruled by a
has-been one hit wonder pop star with a chip on his shoulder and a deep hatred
of pizza, couscous and cold mushrooms.
Imagine no more. The Bing Selfish radio show tells the amazing, harrowing and
touching story of the Selfish Empire. It’s a musical, a drama, a satire and much
more..
A wild, magical, musical waltz through centuries of cruelty and laughter. An
irresistible story of intrigues, plots and deadly satire, interspersed by
heart-stopping songs and melodies.
This might just be the Radio Show…of a Lifetime
Released 9th January 2008: Double CD featuring:
CD2: The Bing Selfish Radio Show First Series in MP3 format
14 episodes of fun, including one double length slab of a season finale episode
CD1: Songs of Myself – a selection of songs from the Radio Show
Includes: Selfish City Will Not Fall, I’m In Power, L.B. and many many more...
A set of Bing Selfish songs cruelly wrenched from their context within the magnum
opus of Bing Selfish: The Bing Selfish Radio Show, starring Bing Selfish. Songs
that capture the fun, the frenzy, the frolics of a one-party world led by the
dictator they love to love, Bing Selfish.
BUY!! Only 10 Pounds or 15 Euros (plus post and packing from Bing Selfish mail order ).
To Order :
PAYPAL accepted! e-mail for details and postage rates worldwide .
Cheques/Postal Orders/International Money Orders also accepted, again email for details and postage rates .
NOT SOLD ON IT YET? Then watch the first 10 minutes from 35 minute Bing Selfish Radio Show Belgian Special, Live in Brussels, ASCR Festival, 27th October 2007 (note : not included on the CD release).
PART ONE
PART TWO
OFFICIAL SITE with FULL DISCOGRAPHY and COMPLETE Selfish mail order is here .
Disclaimer : This space is not directly sewn by the hand of Selfish, but the work of fervent admirers. All messages of support or ridicule are passed on to the Selfish one himself, who is a discreet individual and conducts his business in such a manner.
