Month: June 2017
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The story of I Feel Love
Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ – the song that changed the future of music is 40 years old as of July (sorry punk, Sex Pistols et al but it really did change the course of history, pop of the last 4 decades would not exist without it and the techniques it pioneered, whereas punk was…
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Public Enemy free album to celebrate their 30th anniversary
Public Enemy has just released their latest album Nothing Is Quick In The Desert free on Bandcamp to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Had a quick listen and it’s really good. (via Ian Fondue) Nothing Is Quick In The Desert by Public Enemy
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Justice 4 Grenfell – A Crime of Epic Proportions
You need to watch this video, it shouldn’t take 28 years like Hillsborough to get justice for those who died and survived the fire at Grenfell Tower. It IS a crime, heads SHOULD roll for this disaster, and the terrible response afterwards. Basically this is a Tory council who prioritised a £100 rebate for residents…
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Here Is A Musical Box – RIP Brian Cant
Sadly Brian Cant, a cornerstone of my childhood from Play School, Play Away, even Orbital videos has died aged 83. But I think his best work was on the Trumptonshire trilogy – people mostly remember his voice-over work on them especially Camberwick Green – “Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready…
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Austerity kills and gentrification genocide
This image from Dr.Dunno / Chris Barker says it all about the horror of Grenfell Tower…rather drained about it, as not only did my mother live near there so I know that area fairly well, I have a personal connection to someone helping out and it doesn’t sound good. This might be the worse fire…