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Album Title:  The Midas Touch And Other Curses
Artist: Steve Larkin
© Steve Larkin 2004

Genre: Spoken Word

45 minutes of original spoken word.  The Midas Touch And Other Curses brings together a selection of ten years of performance pieces.  Includes tracks with electronica and worldfolkpunkskiffle backing.

£8 GB / $15 US

Review:

“The Midas Touch and Other Curses is a thing of great variety, Steve choosing to intersperse the poetry with musical performances, including two from the Inflatable Buddha.

All of Steve’s trademark works are featured, kicking off naturally with The Midas Touch in Reverse, a brilliant paranoid rollercoaster ride through a series of surreal events gleaned (though exaggerated I hope) from his misspent youth.  The encounter with Edna the Evil TV in an underage drinking pit has a vivid truth to it, as do other such seedy observances through the CD.  In Sunderland is Utopia the cynicism is at its harshest, and Steve’s desire to escape is keenly felt.  But neither is he impressed by the pretensions of Higher Education, as the biting satire of The Meaning of Life demonstrates.  "The Meaning of Life, it’s a one hour lecture, when I make a joke I’ll pause for your laughter".  Gaia’s Human Lemmings is darker still, a harsh and measured dissection of mental and physical inertia as the bodies pile up behind the front doors of domestic Britain.

But the humour of Steve’s perky persona pokes through everything, and he’s at his humorous best on poems such as Midas Touch, Funny Old Game and The Day I Fell in Love (With A Nat West Service Point).”

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