Tag: Paris
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RIP Vangelis & Klaus Schulze
Usually I get my tributes out immediately when musicians I love die, but I was totally dumbstruck when I heard a few days ago that Vangelis had died. To me, he’s Beatles or Elvis or Rolling Stones level; a majpr influence in my listening and composing. And that’s why I couldn’t just throw out a…
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Fickle Friends
A discovery at Brighton Pride today (along with Years & Years and DJ Missy B) was a set by Brighton locals Fickle Friends, they seem quirkier and beat-ier on stage, but love ‘Swim’, ‘Velvet’ and ‘Paris (Chimes remix)’. Great video as well, all about drowning in your partner’s emotional baggage according to the band. Listening…
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Olympic Bus Apartheid and The Invisible Poor
The Olympics is about to start in Rio, if they get it finished in time, LOL. It’s interesting though that apparently 11 bus lines from the poor North of the city have been cancelled so poor people don’t come into the richer south where the tourists and Olympics are. Also near the airport a wall…
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The obstacle course
A first person look at what it’s like to be queer, a very abridged version from Inter-LGBT France and TBWA Paris. In some sad sense a sanitised version, actually, in others more violent, it depends on the person…but at the basic core, true. This struggle is all too real.