Stuckism For Your Ears

1. Music by musicians isn’t music.
2. SFYE is fallible unencumbered experimentation.
3. Music that has to be in tune to be music isn’t music.
4. Emma Pugmire is Stuckist John Bonham.
5. Dare communicate your cleverness in primeval sound and be slain.
6. SFYE casts wild dogs and shadows across fairyland.
7. The institutionalised can only laugh at truth.
8. SFYE is 50% neurosis 50% innocence.
9. It’s our Stuckist duty to perform live and yours to attend.
10. We’re not shit. We’re avant-gard.
11. Our constant engagement with public humiliation results in a constant fear of success.
12. SFYE isn’t punk. It’s what punk said it was.
13. Before certification, licences and antidepressants everyone was a publicly performing dancer, singer, painter and musician living in communities that had no word for ‘talent’.
14. SFYE craves and strives for fame and public recognition because every caveman was famous. We’re a herd species. Our primal natural state is to be known by, seen by and appreciated by all around us. Society has deceived mankind into feeling shame and guilt for wanting to return to being truly human. The ego-artist is the true Stuckist.
15. SFYE aggressively pursues attention, adulation and financial gain. Success to the Stuckist is to get out of bed in the morning and paint when mummy and daddy are paying the rent.
16. Van Gogh was a career artist because his brother was getting sick of his fucking begging letters.
17. It’s time for Stuckism to grow up.
18. Every musician was once human.
19. Good music is pretentious.
20. Counter-culture’s dead because it became painfully over-aware of itself and terrified of commercial failure. Drowned in its obsession with style, class, dress-codes, taste and every form of paranoid self preening it once stood against, it became a relentless conveyor belt of one vacuous branding campaign after the other. SFYE reinvents counter-culture as the deplorable, ugly, laughable, instantly hateable travesty it should have always been.
21. Taste tastes like shit.
22. Pessimism is patronising. We have faith in humanity.

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