Punk lives

Guardian names Selfish Cunt (made up of singer Martin Tomlinson and Kiwi guitarist Patrick Constable) one of the top 40 bands in Britain today, alongside Franz Ferdinand, Blur, The Darkness, and Radiohead. “Dividing the nervous few who have heard or seen them, art/punk duo Selfish Cunt aren’t simply an in-joke too far perpetrated by the denizens of London’s trendy Hoxton – more a malignancy at the heart of the fashionable life. [Tomlinson and Constable] create unruly anti-songs, angry unravellings of beatbox stuffer, garage noise and invective … [Their] genuinely menacing debut double A-side single Britain is Shit /Fuck the Poor is the most brutal state-of-the-national address since the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen.”