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Why is it so difficult to revisit the strident political albums of one's youth? David Bennun returns to the once inflammatory Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury and finds it’s so much smaller now, and didn't it all used to be fields around here?
Faust will open the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at lunchtime on Field Day: make sure you get there in time else Jean-Herve will have you with his chainsaw. Here, we delve into the Rock's Backpages archive for a 1973 NME piece by Ian MacDonald