Jazz Articles about Tempus Fugit

Tempus Fugit: Back Of My Hand

by Nic Jones
April 1, 2006

If politics is the new rock 'n' roll, then this reissue is proof that it was once the new turgid fusion with a side order of well-meaning vocals. British Prime Minister Tony Blair spent some of his college days fronting a happily unsuccessful rock band, and this release reveals that Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary in the Blair government, spent some time playing bass in and writing usually Marxist-Leninist lyrics for Tempus Fugit, a fledgling jazz-rock band whose fearsome virtuosity was ...