NIKKI SUDDEN
Treasure Island
Secretly Canadian
· Think YOU could get Mick Taylor and Ian MacLagan to play on YOUR record, punk?
Blah, blah, blah, the Stones’ Mick Taylor. Blah, blah, blah, the Faces’ Ian MacLagan. Blah, blah, blah, Nikki Sudden still makes rock ’n’ roll as if certain emotions were never rescued and certain icons never started sucking in the ’80s.
OK, so Sudden is, and always has been, heavily indebted to his predecessors. But when he’s got the best of them backing him on Treasure Island, can’t we consider the debt paid in full? Certainly – especially after you get an underpants-load of the sort of soulful chowder spewed by Sudden and The Last Bandits, as his band is called, on such songs as "When the Lord," a five-minute Hammond orgasm in honour of one honest woman.
Perhaps, after 22 years of solo recording and scads of Swell Maps albums before that, Sudden is finally – um, suddenly – about to be embraced by the ignorant masses. Come, now, you don’t believe all the blah-blah-blah you read, do you?
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