Frenchy’s Rants This month

Frenchy’s Rants

Happy New Year!

The twenty-second part in an exclusive series by Flicknife Records co-founder Marco ‘Frenchy’ Gloder.

So this is 2021, “a happy New Year, I hope you have fun, let’s hope it’s a good one ...”, as Lennon once sang. Personally, I don’t feel any different. It doesn’t feel like much has changed for the better yet but there is still 360-ish days for all that to happen! Maybe, just maybe, 2021 will be a great year. Let’s have a look at what will happen during this new year, the good, the bad and the ugly ... especially the bad and the ugly.

Apart from being the 21st year of the third millennium (AD), the United Nations has declared 2021 as the International Year of Peace and Trust, the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables and the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour: all very worthwhile, I am sure you’ll agree! On the UK front, by 1st January 2021, we will no longer be part of the EU which means that everything you took for granted about going to France to refill your wine cellar will no longer apply. So better check your passport before you set off. On the positive side, duty free shopping will return so deal or no deal, getting paralytic will be much cheaper! Over in America, on the 6th January, Congress will formally validate the Electoral College votes and will declare Biden the new prez of the USA ... as long as Trumpet’s legal team doesn’t throw a spanner in the works! Talking about elections, the UK is scheduled to hold elections to the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments as well as the London Assembly and the mayorship of London.

In sports, we’ll have the football Euro 2020 finals (no, it’s not a misprint, it’ll still be called UEFA Euro 2020) while the Lions will be touring South Africa (that’s rugby union, the one with 15 geezers or geezerettes giving each other brain damage). The other rugby code, rugby league (with only 13 geezers or geezerettes) will have its World Cup and guess where this will be held? Yes, in England!

The greatest scientific/physics/nerdish event of the year will be the launch of Artemis 1 mission to the moon and 2021 will end in beauty with a show only nature can throw and man never equal: a TOTAL Solar eclipse! The ‘Arts’, not to be left behind, will bore us stiff with the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (had anyone heard of Lizzo last year?!) and the 78th Golden Globe Awards. On this side of the water, we will have music aplenty with the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Rotterdam: can’t wait! I still think that an indie band would do better and this year I’ll nominate one of ours: The Scavengers doing ‘Leave Me Here’ is a sure-fire winner ... and if it doesn’t win, it’ll encourage all of us to get pissed more often!! Job’s a good’un!

This is just a quick look at the highlights of 2021 and to be honest, it ain’t much to write home about, fairly

routine to be fair coz none of us know what will really happen, not even those who pretend to know. Actually, people who talk a lot and pretend to know it all, tend to know fukk all. The more someone talks about any given subject, the least I trust him/her which is why I don’t trust politicians who’ve been trained to make bullshit sound like the truth. Yes, we got a vaccine but will it work for everyone? Will it work at all? Or is it some scam to let the authorities know where we are at all times? Or worse, control our behaviour!?!? Nobody knows, not politicians, not big-mouthed bloggers, not preaching fools who had dreams sent to them and them alone by God, nobody ... except those few trillionaire vampires who control the world from some dank, dark cellar deep underground in the Ural Mountains! And don’t tell me that the medical profession wouldn’t let that happen coz doctors put drugs they know next to fuck all about, into bodies of which they know even less, to cure diseases they had never heard of before March 2020. So GPs will do as they are told, like the rest of us!

This is the age of the Digital Gestapo and don’t you forget it: today, a free man is not someone who can pay his way, not someone who’s done good and can stick two fingers at HMRC. No, nowadays, a free man is someone who’s free in his head, someone who can still dream and escape, preferably while listening to DOREMI FASOL LATIDO! And that’s why I don’t buy into the vaccine scam: they don’t need to inject anyone with some kind of evil dye transmitting our whereabouts. They can do that now with CCTV cameras, mobile phones, ANPR, etc. I really don’t think there is a scam at all regarding the whole virus episode: if the powerful and mega-rich wanted to enslave us, they wouldn’t need a virus: turn off the WiFi and close down Amazon! They’ve got us where they want us already, slaves to the TV and lazily dependent on Amazon: we’re fukked with or without virus and you know it.

Let’s be good boys and girls in 2021, let’s get vaccinated and try to get back to some form of normal life. All of us workers will need to work twice as hard to pay the debts caused by COVID-19, through the inevitable forthcoming increases in taxes. And we’ll have to do that on our own as we’re now in control of our affairs, no longer answering to unelected Brussels and no longer having allies. That’s what the people wanted and that’s what the people got ... with bells on!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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