Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Baines Football Cards: the Victorian Panini
Football fans tend to be hoarders. Paul Brown uncovers the origins of this most pervasive of characteristics.
Read more @ In Bed With Maradona
(btw, what a fantastic blog name!!!)
Tack>>Head (Live London April 9 2011)
Stealing In The Name Of The Lord
Black Cinderella
Fire
For DJPigg and me!!!
"I Pay, You Pay, Why Doesn't B of A?": Are We Seeing the Birth of a Totally New Protest Movement?
It’s April 5, the end of the financial year, and 100 people – mostly strangers – have their arms linked in a massive circle, occupying the heart of Canary Wharf, the hyper-real maze of steel and plate glass that is the home of Britain’s financial services industries, banks and corporate law firms: the firms that caused the recession, yet lived to tell the tale. Besuited commuters look on in amusement as they sashay their way to the rush hour subway station. “It’s tax year’s eve!” cries someone from the circle, in mock celebration, then they begin to sing: first falteringly, then full-throatedly, over and over, to the tune of Auld Lang Syne:
“Should tax avoidance be forgot/And never brought to mind/Should tax avoidance be forgot/Unfairness you will find/For schools and hospitals, my dear/For pensions and home care/For EMA and libraries/Just pay your bloody share.”
This could only be the work of UK Uncut. From the country that brought you the Suffragettes, the Chartists, the Levellers, and the peasants’ revolt of 1381, UK Uncut is the zeitgeist’s protest movement, a web 2.0-enabled incarnation of the aforementioned.
UK Uncut doesn’t have leaders, a hierarchy, a PR firm or funders; it’s not violent, it’s not party-affiliated or backed, and yet in six months it’s changed the face of British politics: on the left and in the protest movement, across the mainstream media, into parliament itself, and beyond the shores of the UK, to US Uncut, Canada Uncut and even, astonishingly, Sudan Uncut...
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Dan Hancox @'Alternet'
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Patti Smith: Dream of Life Discussion
Eleven years in the making, the documentary, which gives nary a biographical detail, is a roving dreamscape--from New York to Tokyo to Rome--of punk's great poet. It's a fitting and appropriately impressionistic celebration of Patti Smith, who has been called "the only major surviving link from the beat era to the '70s Manhattan art scene to the birth of punk to the present." After she moved from underground punk rocker to rock star--all the while maintaining a relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe that is inadequately described as a friendship and artistic collaboration--she left it all behind to raise a family in Michigan; after her husband's death, she has returned to the spotlight, as fierce a punk poet and advocate as ever. Patti Smith and Steven Sebring will participate in a conversation with Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of Sound Opinions, after the screening.
...to join the recent Patti related posts here.
Words ARE Weapons!
Just seen Joe Mott in the sunday Star. Deeply offensive. http://twitpic.com/4jqkwn
bengoldacre ben goldacre
@jamesrbuk hang on, you just said a columnist was deeply offensive, and linked to something calling him a "c*nt" http://bit.ly/eGUhT7
Wingless Angels: The Podcasts - No.2 (Justin Hinds)
This one is all about Justin Hinds, a foundation singer in Jamaican music and a member of Wingless Angels. We focus on the brilliance of the man’s music and tell some of the story of Wingless Angels from the standpoint of Justin’s career in the 1960s.
Download/listen to episode two of Wingless Angels
HERE
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