The Third and final album of the Big Funk Factory decade also marks the end of the saga and the introduction of character called AWM who bares an uncanny resemblance to a certain lead singer.
Mitchell always had the intention of finishing off his various alter egos in previous stories, the idea always being that the band kept going, despite innumerable changes in lead vocalists, this was, in part, due to the fact he wanted to jettison the uncomfortable outfits and plastic teeth etc …
As usual the collection of songs form the backdrop to the final part in the D-roid trilogy, with songs originally emanating from Andy and Neil’s Wooden Mac period, with a few new items and previously unrecorded tracks thrown in. It was also the very first time Mitchell recorded the band at Abbey Road and was intended to be his final project … until some pesky bats in Wuhan altered things somewhat …
This time the story largely centres round the journalist Keppler on a low rent film noir search for evidence that is communicated to him by his old, sort of, nemesis Rawlings.
The evidence leads to a conclusion he couldn’t have imagined, even in these ridiculous stories.