Monday 13th February 2012

NEW MUSIC: KOTKI DWA – “POISON”

There’s a scene in Trainspotting, you’ll know the one.  Not the most memorable, but one that stuck with me nonetheless, perhaps through fear, perhaps through its accuracy. Either way, you’ll know the scene because you’ll know the feeling it conjured:

Sick Boy: It’s certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life.
Renton: What do you mean?
Sick Boy: Well, at one time, you’ve got it, and then you lose it, and it’s gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed.
Renton: Lou Reed, some of his solo stuff’s not bad.
Sick Boy: No, it’s not bad. But it’s not great either, is it? And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it’s actually just…shite.
Renton: So who else?
Sick Boy: Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley…
Renton: OK, OK, so what’s the point you’re trying to make?
Sick Boy: All I’m trying to do, Mark, is help you understand that The Name of the Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
Renton: What about The Untouchables?
Sick Boy: I don’t rate that at all.
Renton: Despite the Academy Award?
Sick Boy: That means fuck all. It’s a sympathy vote.
Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can’t hack it anymore. Is that it?
Sick Boy: Yeah.
Renton: That’s your theory?
Sick Boy: Yeah. Beautifully fucking illustrated.

To have had it and then lost it is better than to have never had it at all. To have got it back, well that’s divine inspiration. And as such, it feels remarkable to have Kotki Dwa back, their poetry and ebullience-masking-sadness fully in tact.

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