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the first is jez butterworth�*s playjerusalem, from 2009, and then let england shake, an album by pj harveyu put these two together? they were both articulating ideas that i was having or had about britain or england and about our identity and, erm... ..history, especially with let england shake. it was like, "how do you talk about the past "in the present?" how do you talk about the first world war now? what does it mean to talk about it now? and so there's a sort of time—travelling aspect to it. # goddamn europeans # take me back to beautiful england # and the grey, damp filthiness # of a-es and battered books and... every song on it is just so catchy. so that's a very seductive thing as well. so that album ijust played to death, but it really helped me thinking about, later on, how i would work around commemorating the battle of the somme. and withjerusalem, another artwork, really, that crystallised my view of britain. roosterjohnny byron ain't going nowhere! so a happy st george's day! now kiss my beggar arse, you puritans! klaxon blares all the things i'd been thinking about were in t