Split by Martin Creed and Franz Ferdinand side project Box Codax

Vinyl Factory will be releasing a split single, split between Martin Creed and Box Codax. Martin Creed is a Turner Prize winner. He won the award in 2001 for his Work no. 227: The Lights Going On and Off. Next year will see the release of his debut album. Box Codax is a project of Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy. The split will be released in a limited run on white vinyl, and this will commence on the 11^th of this month. The tracks are called ‘Dawning’ and ‘Where You Go’.

Drawing on research from as far back as 1932, a recent book by Lindsay Duringham titled The Place to Say Where You Are When Your Lover Calls (and other neat tricks to dodge interrogative questions) states that the most asked questions are Where You Go? and Where Are You?. In other words, a question in which the answer has something to do with your whereabouts. Spoiling it for everyone was Leroy DuBois, who in 1901 – the year after which these kind of questions increased in volume – went out the door. Where you go?, his woman asked, to which he replied, Church, there is a town council meeting I was asked to attend.

The woman, a resilient little thing of 73 with four voodoo dolls and a broom with an enlarged handle so she had better reach (to smack people with, at 5’4 she certainly didn’t need it for the actual act of sweeping), became impatient when her husband hadn’t come home yet around 2AM. So she went out on the streets, broom in hand, yelling, Where you at boy, where you go?, and the whole town shuddered in fear and it was recorded that a few buildings actually took a step back. Naturally, she tracked him down, and his howling was heard in New Jersey as she swept him right out of town. Obviously, the story spread like wildfire, and since then every woman wants to know where her man is going, for she ain’t trusting him no more.