MELLOW MY MADNESS

I've developed a happy association with Mad Pride, a London based organisation which campaigns on behalf of people with mental health issues (Kevin Coyne is their kind of patron saint). Lots of the music coming out of this movement is brilliant, though off-kilter. My favourite artist in their stable is D.J. Unfit for Work, and this track, recorded by D.J. at home acts a suitable coda to the album, following, as it does The Skaters. The song says you can live successfully on the borderline in the face of deep loss as long as people still care about you unconditionally - so different from the stark fate of the man (and the woman, if she ever existed) in The Skaters.