Tag: Working class
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Covid Fever in House Nation
Jarv…Is’s Beyond the Pale drops tomorrow and in anticipation here’s the video for ‘House Music All Night Long’. Although I’ve played this and another track from it on the podcast. I never checked out the video which fulfils Jarvis Cocker’s working class Bond aspirations as detailed in ‘I Spy’ but in a surprising way with…
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Cummings and goings
Jonathan Pie correctly sums it up – totally sweary but very justifiably so. It’s not really about who Dominic is, well a little – it couldn’t happen to a nicer man, etc. It is complete karma. But the anger at the hypocrisy when many have suffered more and the utter contempt with the lies from…
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Everybody in the Place
Not sure how long this will be up, but this is a great documentary on youth culture and the rave scene by artist Jeremy Deller. It’s not your usual documentary either, just showing some dancing people in an hanger and then clips of angry news reports – Jeremy is filmed doing a talk to a…
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Same as it ever was
Love this cover of Talking Heads ‘Once In A Lifetime’ by Angelique Kidjo – reclaiming and rebooting those African rhythms. She’s recorded the whole of Remain In Light, adding her own lyrics and style, so it comes full circle. I love her take on appropriation – she doesn’t see why it’s a problem if it’s…
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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Feelings > Facts
John Oliver on form again, I do think Trump will win it unless Hillary gets her shit together, which given her VP choice and complete Dynastic arrogance, very unlikely. Negative ‘Not That Guy’ campaigns never usually win, neither does lecturing your own party members about protest votes and ignoring DNC rigging…politically that kind of campaign…