Martin Rossiter: The Defenestration of St Martin – review

(Drop Anchor)Martin Rossiter fronted Gene, a foppish, Smiths-y quartet who sold 1m records in the Britpop era without troubling Oasis or Blur. Since then, fatherhood, depression and music teaching have led to this surprise reemergence. Opener Three Points on a Compass is Resister's withering address to the father who left when he was young. "The only thing I ever got from you was my name/ You broke our home, and I will never forgive," he sings, the harrowing words belied by the song's eerie be...

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