Wednesday, 5 November 2008
On the BBC website
'The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Chicago: The crowd that has been gathering all day around Grant Park was finally allowed in around an hour ago. They arrived cheering and screaming and racing across the fenced off area of grass in front of the open air stage in a good natured competition to get the best places. As they did so they offered a clue as to Obama's methods - he brought politics to the rock festival generation, and they rewarded him by bringing rock festival style energy to his campaign.'
Gunpowder Treason & Plot
'Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!'
Until the nineteenth century there was a special Church of England service for this commemoration in the Book of Common Prayer. Guy Fawkes Day became a public holiday in 1606 when it was proclaimed by an Act of Parliament. In commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot on this day in 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his comrades tried to blow up King James I and the whole English Parliament, English people still burn a 'guy' in effigy.
More here.
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
James 'Blood' Ulmer - Are You Glad To Be In America?
The former sideman for Ornette Coleman and proponent of 'harmolodics' will be coming to Australia for the ATP Festival at Mount Buller in January. Details here.
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