Happy new year – and a particularly auspicious year it will be until February 2008, according to Chinese tradition. The year of the pig comes around every 12 years, but the year of the Golden Pig every 60 years, and economists have been considering the effect of the capitalist boom which the Golden Pig augurs. So, with China already set on a fuel-guzzling, mass consumption, heavy polluting course, will this year finally spell the end of hope for ecological survival?
Tackling this understandably disturbed thought process, I searched for other Golden Pigs in order to keep the chin pointing upwards and found Golden Pig Electric Blues Band – “a perfectly balanced hybrid of Stoner Rock and Doom” – who I predict will have a massive year. Their album of the same name will be undeleted, and their eponymous track Mizz Marvel will remain 47 weeks in the charts across the entire world, catapulting this under-rated band to huge and well-deserved stardom.
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I’d like to hear that.
This paints a bit gloomier picture of the Year of the Pig.