It's currently home to writer-performer Kelvin Roston Jr.'s solo "Twisted Melodies," a brilliantly sung but intense downer of a musical about the mentally ill pop-R&B singer Donny Hathaway ("This Christmas," "Where Is the Love" and other duets with Roberta Flack), who took his own life in 1979.
New country makes me ill -- pop music in a hat.
The guilelessness of the mentally ill became pop's highest value.
Along the way, she ponders the ill-fitting pop-culture guises of the menopausal woman — one can cultivate a midlife of "gardening, grandchildren, knitting, lots of sage nodding" or launch a full-scale attack against physical decrepitude, deploying hormones, skin creams, plastic surgery and a lot of yoga.
Taken over by the Hurst family in 2011, the Mill has been given a spruce makeover but, despite its greige tones, posh wallpapers and squishy sofas, the bar still feels like a regular pub, both for good (immaculate pints of Bowland Brewery ales, from £3.50) and ill (terrible chart pop music; flat-screen TV showing News24).
We also visit terminally ill cancer patient POP – a woman who claims that CBD has helped her live years beyond her prognosis – and witness a family with a severely epileptic child try CBD for the first time, with incredible results.
Ill-willed men pop out from every available entry as though lurking opportunistically in the perimeters all along.
The collaborators are, mostly, either ill-matched (Iggy Pop, phoning in the growl on "Christmas Wrapping") or befuddling (James Corden, flattening the notes on "Only You").
Their debut lambasts some pet British ills: the facile pop music on the radio, the weather, the birth-school-work-death grind compounded by the bread and circuses of celebrity culture.
The thinking behind SSS is that because humans are omnivores, and we must eat a variety of foods to survive, we evolved this mechanism to keep us from sticking doggedly to our favourite food and consequently getting ill, and/or prematurely popping our clogs.
