BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

You couldn’t have planned it. Back in 2019, long before ‘self-isolation’ and ‘two-metre distancing’ became part of everyone’s vocabulary, The Blinders were holed up in a mill in Manchester, experimenting with a song called Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath. It eventually turned into their second album, via an intoxicating brew of personal demons, classical literature, Twin Peaks and Hitchcock and Lynch films, set off with a generous splash of politics and black humour.

Today there’s something darkly prophetic about the song. At the time, however, such deliciously wicked lines as ‘’ harked back to the. An exaggerated version of many ordinary people most of us know, this trio of articulate twenty-somethings suggest. Perhaps we are, or could be, those people.