Happy Monday! If you’re feeling ready to tear down the entire system as you re-enter the monotonous working week, have we got some anarchy for you! Maggie Thatcher’s Rotting Corpse (or MTRC) is one of the greatest band names ever thought up. It’s the name of an anarcho-punk band from Leeds, U.K.
MTRC are dropping a new digital single on May 5 through Bunnysnot Records called “The Ballad of Reggie Cyde.” It’s coming out on the day before the huge coronation of Charles III and Camilla in the U.K., hence the song title’s thinly-veiled pun of “regicide,” or the murder of a monarch. Even though the song officially drops on Friday, you can stream it on their Bandcamp right now and preorder it ahead of the Friday release.
It’s exactly what you would expect from a classic anarchist punk band showing off the kind of irreverence the Sex Pistols used to have before John Lydon grew up to be a bootlicker. The song has a jaunty, oi spirit to it that would make it sound perfectly appropriate for a pub sing-along. And, while the lyrics don’t completely give away the song’s underlying joke on the surface, it’s easy to strip away the shallow surface meaning to find the more treasonous witticism hiding underneath.
If the song title wasn’t enough of a giveaway, the repeated mentions of Reggie Cyde traveling to Paris, Moscow, and Athens—the sites of some famous regicides—should make the meaning that much more apparent. This song isn’t for fans of the British monarchy—or any monarchy for that matter—but then it wouldn’t be anarcho-punk if it was.
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