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The Dinner Is Ruined Dig Into
American Politics With New Online Single
Wednesday October 20, 2004 @ 04:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com
Staff
Dale Morningstar
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A couple months back we told
you about former Inbred Mike O’Neill releasing a new
album through the online label Zunior.com. The website is run by
O’Neill’s former partner-in-crime, Dave Ullrich, and allows
you to download songs in MP3 and wav formats (you can also order a
CD copy now), with most profits going directly to the artist.
One Zunior band is now hoping to make some waves with a new
vaguely anti-George W. Bush single. Independent Canadian art-rock
noisemakers The Dinner Is Ruined have recorded "Give Hope A
Chance: Dejection Year ’04" — and if you think the title’s long, the
song itself will probably floor you, clocking in at more than nine
minutes.
The track uses clips of George W. Bush talking up his "weapons of
mass destruction," as well as characterized voices proclaiming, "We
believe what we’re-reading," and trumpeting America’s explosive
arrival, presumably on foreign soil. It’s all a little hard to
process on first listen. As with all Zunior releases, the download
comes complete with cover art.
The Dinner Is Ruined plan to have a new full-length album,
Clothes For The Season, hit the website in the near future, but they
wanted to get this single out early since it deals with very
in-the-moment issues — namely, the upcoming U.S. election and its
surrounding world politics.
In recent months, a whole whack of American bands have been
releasing statements and protest songs rallying against the reign of
Dubya, but DIR’s audience is overwhelmingly Canadian and,
unfortunately, we’re not allowed to vote. Nevertheless, we here at
ChartAttack fully support freedom of expression and having another
group of musicians speak up can’t be a bad thing.
This will be The Dinner’s first record in quite some time, their
last being 2001’s Ray Charles Kinda Party. Since then, frontman
Dale Morningstar isolated himself for months on end to record
his solo record, I Grew Up On Sodom Road, released in 2002. The band
also backed Gord Downie on his own solo release last year,
Battle Of The Nudes, which was produced by Morningstar.
—David McDougall
 
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