Dead Right by OFFICER!, released 10 October 2025
- Kick Them Out
- Le Chant des Partisans
- Truth
- The Jeremy Hunt Song
- Unsuited for the Job
- Let Them Eat Cake
- Manifest
- Infinite Greed
- Toffs
- The Fuel Poverty Song
- Les Étincelles
- Those Evil Tories
- Strong Butler
- A Secret History
- The Internationale
- The Red Flag I/Politics I
- Help Me/Men at Work/The Red Flag II/Politics II
- Kick Them Out Rap
- Capitalism and Futurism
- You’ve Got It Coming!
- The Internationale (Reprise)
- The Red Flag III
- Strike!
- Diabolical
- Dans La Cave
- Putin’s Table
- Reports
- Toryism
- Unsuited for the Job (Original Version)
- The Jeremy Corbyn Song
- Bonus track (only digital): A March for Mick, tribute to Mick Hobbs
Limited edition double LP / 200 vinyl copies on Jelodanti Records & InPoly Sons (hand stamped) with coloured inserts.
This is an ambitious double album aimed against the politics and ideology of the right wing English Tory (Conservative) Party. Here's how Mick Hobbs introduced the project to us in one line the 13th of december 2024:
« I’ve been getting on with things here, doing a collection of songs against the Conservative party. (…) It’s domestic, but international also. »
By Denis Tagu:
"Officer!, an English interjection used to address a police officer, a "bobby" in London, to ask for directions, information, or help. And perhaps, since the 1980s, this word might have taken on a certain authority, aggression, with several exclamation points against
these increasingly repressive police forces, under the yoke of the various political regimes of the English right wing (the Tories), an era begun by Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the unstoppable Iron Lady, the one who was not for turning, who left her mark on her time, her society, and much of the Western world with her social (or anti-social) and economic
models, leading to the ultraliberalism and insoluble divisions we know today.
Many English people, mostly poor or "lower middle class" as they say, have suffered and continue to suffer with two s, even if sometimes three or four s are needed to demonstrate the force of this suffering.
The English right wing remained in power for almost 20 years: Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1990, followed by the weak, but genial and devious John Major until 1997. At the beginning of the Thatcher era, Mick Hobbs began his musical career, notably as a bassist in the band The Work, a dry, uncompromising rock band, proud of its title "I hate
America". At the same time, he set up his more personal project, more fragile in form under the name of Officer!. But just as involved in the big questions of our lives ("All reality is symbolic";"Take something big and call it a god (or a dog)"). A collective that took different forms with his musician friends because for Mick, community made sense. It
was then a question of fighting and surviving in this anti-poor, anti-artist world.
This album "Dead Right", the latest from Officer!, is intended as a slap in the face to the English conservatives, "who destroyed my life", as Mick once said. With his friend and longtime member of Officer!, Felix Fiedorowicz, Mick created this project, open to more than 20 collaborators (always the sense of community), performers, authors, and
composers, to put an end to this alienating right, especially since July 2024, the arguably left (Labour) has returned to power in the United Kingdom.
This rock-tinged album is brilliant, enlightening, ambiguous, provocative and fun: excerpts from speeches and announcements by British politicians are interspersed throughout the musical themes,
including direct addresses ("Putin's table"), hard-hitting messages ("Kick them out now"), and traditional militant chants ("Le chant des partisans"; "’Internationale"; "The Red Flag").
A coherent work, committed experimental pop-rock, radical but not extremist, which will undoubtedly mark the history of Officer! and militant rock at the beginning of the 21st century."
