The music night to remember is less than a week away, Spirit of Revolt's fund raiser musical evening is next Wednesday, 20th. December. The list of performers is varied as it is talented. We have Calum Baird, Jim Ferguson, Julie Anne McCambridge, Rab Fullerton, Chris Fear, Paul Tasker, John Player, Enradgay, Brendan McLaughlin, Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, there will be floor spots and the package will be compeered by Brendan McLaughlin. I doubt you will ever get another opportunity to hear all these artists on one evening in one place. So clear your diary and mark in Wednesday, 20th December, The Old Hairdressers, 20-28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow G2 6PH. Meet old friends, make new friends, have a night to remember. Doors open 6:45, start just after 7pm.
Hope to see you there having a wonderful night of songs, poems, music, chat and memories.
There's a new voice in town, at the moment I believe it is just a whisper, but has the potential to become a roar. When I say a "new voice", well really it's an old voice, it's a voice of struggle, a voice of people's desire for freedom and equality, a desire for justice. It is in fact the Red and Black Song Club, they will be trying to fill your hearts with tales of past struggles, with hope, with solidarity and camaraderie. So pop along and have a listen, or better still, lend your voice, join in.
You'll find them every, 1st. and 3rd. Thursday of the month, at 7pm. in the Glasgow Autonomous Space, Kilbirnie Street, (near West Street subway).
The Red and Black Song Club is exactly what it sounds like- a song
club for the radical left. We meet up on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of
every month to sing, celebrate and keep alive radical left-wing music
from the past and present. You don't need any musical experience- just a love of radical songs of working class struggle, anti-fascism and solidarity. Other musical instruments are more than welcome too!
May Day is fast approaching, sadly so many of our young people have had its true significance erased from their memory, its true purpose is never emphasised in our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media. They would rather spout it as a holiday, so go shopping, buy a ticket for a show or sit in front of your TV and overdose on the candy-floss and bubble-gum crap that it pours out over your living room floor. However, May Day is a very important day in the history and culture of the working class, the ordinary people.
It is a day to celebrate our victories in the struggle for that better life for all. A day to remember all those who tirelessly fought the battles to improve all our lives, our working class heroes. A day to meet up with old friends and make new friends, a day of chat, fun, discussion, for all that vast army of ordinary people who struggle day to day.
In an attempt to bring Glasgow May Day, as it should be, back to that great celebration of ordinary people, in the open air, a group are holding a May Day picnic on The Green, on the First of May 2pm onwards, bring what you expect to find, bring the family and friends, bring your street. Enjoy singing, poetry, music, chat, fun, laughter and friendship. See you there.
On Monday May 1st, from 2:00 pm in the east part of Glasgow Green next to the cycling centre, across from the Templeton Factory, join us for a family day, a fun day, a day to celebrate the solidarity of the working class and on the Green where it belongs. Music, poetry, banners, face painting, singing, food to share, friends to chat with, people to meet, stories from our radical past, and news of actions and projects of the present.
I am well aware that the world is being torn apart from the cancer that is the corporate greed of the festering capitalist system that dominates our lives. Most of the time my mind is filled with this nightmare scenario and what we can do to end it, and create that better world for all our kids and grand kids. However I love music, and saw this video and thought, not only was it technically brilliant, but extremely amusing, as they say, "man lives not by bread alone". Enjoy
Not a new one, but I posted this just because I like it, so hope you do also.
Uploaded on Feb 5, 2009 Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. Join the movement here: http://www.playingforchange.com/membe.... From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through
Music", comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song
"One Love" with Keb' Mo' and Manu Chao. This is the third video from the
documentary and a follow up to the classic "Stand By Me" and the
incredible "Don't Worry." Released in celebration of Bob Marley's
birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by
musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled
the globe. "Playing For Change Songs Around The World" CD/DVD available now at http://www.playingforchange.com/marke....
Order the "War/No More Trouble," "Stand By Me," "Don't Worry," and "One
Love" videos and the new Songs Around The World album now at itunes! http://tinyurl.com/pfcitunes We are honored to announce the release of PFC3: Songs Around The World -
available everywhere now! This CD/DVD set highlights the passion and
talent of 185 musicians from 31 different countries. Buy PFC3 Here: http://playingforchange.com/marketpla... JOIN THE MOVEMENT http://www.playingforchange.com https://www.facebook.com/PlayingForCh... https://twitter.com/playing4change http://instagram.com/playing4change See the PFC Band live: http://playingforchange.com/live To learn more about the work of the PFC Foundation, visit http://www.playingforchange.org
From Circled A Radio, for the fans of Chumbawamba, and those who might not know of them, a wee bit of music. and a chat with Dunstan Bruce, former member of Chumbwamba -
who famously sang, "I get knocked down, but I get up again" - chats to Donnacha
about his Kickstarter-funded film about Chumbawamba
From "Destroy Everything", not new, but still relevant, I particularly like the lines:
Sidewalk chalk writers leave notes for our leaders
who cover our eyes with candy and bubblegum.
How true, so of course that means you have to work hard at seeing the truth.
Sidewalk chalk writers leave notes for our leaders
who cover our eyes with candy and bubblegum
They hear what we’re saying, but they
choose not to listen at all
So we choose a different voice
we chew on our choices
and swallow the knowledge and the experience
that we make for ourselves And we savor
the flavor of knowing
of trying and doing
of coming and going From this here cold harbor
where we ship in the labor
to export our culture
in favor of giving ourselves Welcome to the state
here is your flag
and your minimum wage
just be grateful for what you’re given Our teachers are telling us
your prayers will be answered
as soon as the cancer has
eaten away at your soul So we’re waiting
and our savior is hiding
but there have been sightings
on billboards and in federal laws
And business is fruitful its engineered for the mouthful
the chemicals might be harmful
but you will not notice the taste
If you need more
there’s plenty left over
enough to feed everyone
and plenty to be thrown away
The migrants at Calais are getting a lot of publicity from our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, but never is that publicity the human face of ordinary people. We are exposed to pictures of primitive conditions in "the jungle", shadowy figures scurrying about in the dark, trying to get a free ride on a truck, or breaking through fences. No attempt is made to show them as ordinary people like you and I, they "swarm", according to Bullingdon boy Cameron, they are an inconvenience to our businesses, they cause delays to our travel. Never are they people fleeing deprivation, war and brutality, trying get a decent life for themselves and their families. Never are they ordinary people fleeing the cauldron of chaos and savagery spawned by the foreign policy of Western imperialism in their home region. Heaven forbid that they should ever be seen as desperate human beings in need of help.
One more death last night (28/29 July) at the border. Another
killed, a Sudanese man, run over by a truck. Now 11 lives taken since
1st June. The English press complains about these
“accidents” causing traffic jams in Kent. Words fail. Below we repost
two new articles from Calais Migrant Solidarity on the current situation at the border.
But first, because even amidst so much death there is also life, here
are links to some videos made in the last weeks of people playing music.
One is from the Syrian camp in the town centre on 18 July, the other
two of Sudanese musicians singing with the “SOAS Arabic Music Band” at a
concert held in Le Channel, the main Calais music venue, on 30 May.
That was a couple of days before the riot police evicted the Fort Galloo
squat then mainly occupied by Sudanese people. Thanks to the Syrian
and Sudanese musicians, and the Calais-visiting musical and artistic
people from SOAS.
With that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, spewing out its usual distractions and illusions, warped by smoke and mirrors, we must not lose sight of what is happening on the ground. We have had Wimbledon, Tour de France, World Cup, and the Commonwealth Games coming up, circuses for the peasants, all thrown at you as proof of our wonderful world, all fun and spectacle, with the message, "you also could be famous, if you would only work hard enough." but you and I know different. All that razzmatazz, flag waving jamboree, is nothing more than a syphoning machine, sucking public money into the coffers of the corporate world, meanwhile, behind the subterfuge, here in reality world-----ATOS may be leaving that particular field, but the scam goes on.
The Glad Cafe,8pm. 1006A Pollokshaws Road Glasgow G41 2HG
In case you have forgetten, BrendanMcLaughlin, the man that helped make the Scotia Bar, Glasgow, what it became,
an institution, a mecca for poets, writers, singers, song writers,
musicians, laughter, patter, political banter, an oasis of
friendliness in a big city, is launching his latest album
and single on March 22. A must if you know and love Glasgow.
What better way to spend your Saturday night?
Welcome to the Launch of Brendan McLaughlin's The Album 'The Lucky
Ones' & The Single 'Independence' With extra special guests Quirky
Jade (A cappeiia) Telemann Ensemble (String Quartet: Oboe & Flute) Umbongo Nambarrie (Reggae if Ska)
