Sunday 23 December 2018
Sunday 9 December 2018
Friday 7 December 2018
TIMES UP....
Thursday 6 December 2018
THOUGHTS ON A THURSDAY.
These are turbulent and
trouble torn times, insecure and unsure times. The government is
divided and parliament is in crisis. David Cameron should be hung
for treason for having a referendum in the first place, along with
Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage amongst many others for gross
deception with their campaigns of lies, and still the bullshit goes
on! As for Teresa May....well under normal circumstances she and
her government would have their sad sorry arses kicked in a General
Election. In one breath they talk of democracy and not going against
the will of the people and in the next they try and hide things about
the Brexit Deal from the peoples representatives their MP'S and
quite rightly the government is held in contempt of parliament, while
trying to put the final vote on the deal back,no doubt trying to buy
more time, but that's one thing capitalism doesn't sell.
Tuesday 4 December 2018
SO MESSED UP aka SERVE THE SERVANTS
With little due care to health, safety
and musical ability So Messed Up aka Serve The Servants brought their
take on punk rock to the stages of several Music Venues in the North
Herts Area during the early 90's. Think Nirvana and The Damned....
(the names give that away) and you will have no idea what these guys
(Jason Dare / Keith Piggot) gal (Gill Bickell) and a drum machine
(Dr Bondage) sounded like, which was....well pretty stripped back
basic and primal there were Rottenesq vocals over a rudimentary
guitar drone, bass plod and a drum machine that sounded like a brick
in a washing machine. But Hey Ho! this is Punk Rock and who gives a
fuck, this bunch certainly didn't, and Yeah, Yeah, Yeah it wasn't the
most together or tuneful stuff but it was real, played with passion and it had a heartbeat. The enthusiasm and amateur ability made it all
the more authentic and 100% pure Punk Rock, or alternatively it was
shit, opinion was divided, but when Serve The Servants (in)famously
supported Jeff Buckley at Bowes Lyon House in Stevenage, the man
himself whilst watching the band was heard to say “Who are these
people?” and someone from Big Cat Records was mildly
interested/entertained. Fast forward to now, and Jason Dare has
lovingly issued the recordings that So Messed
Up aka Serve The Servants made in 1993, plus some new material he's recorded on CD.
Contact the man himself for a copy via email at: jasondare@live.co.uk
BARNSTORMER 1649 - Restoration Tragedy (*A REVIEW*)
Attila The Stockbrokers new album
Restoration Tragedy is a history lesson about 17th Century
England circa 1649, a time of continuing Civil War, bad harvests,and
rising food prices the country was in strife with factions and sects
(The Levellers, The Diggers and The Ranters) fighting for social,
political, economic and religious change in a divided country, of Parliamentarians and Royalists, ruled
by a Rump Parliament under the control of Oliver Cromwell and his New
Model Army. One King had been be-headed and another exiled/escaped,
and still the poor weren't being listened to.
The Levellers Trilogy, two
traditional Diggers Songs and a Attila original sets the scene for a
performance of some Roundhead Renaissancecore courtesy of Attila and
Barnstormer 1649. Prides Purge
is a catchy tub thumping number that recounts when in 1648 those
loyal to the king were excluded from parliament. Like several songs
on the album it juxtapositions historic events with present day ones
in this case corrupt members of parliament and their dodgy deals,
time for another purge?! The Fishermans Tale is a toe
tapping sea shanty about not catching King Charles II before he
escaped England. Monarchs Way charts his journey, after his
defeat at the The Battle of Worcester this
track is an atmospheric instrumental; you can smell the musket smoke
in the air as battle weary Roundheads lie slumped around a fires
glowing embers. Lord Protector is a doomy dirge
lamenting that Cromwell was no better than the king. Burford
Requiem is just that a simple slow instrumental to remember those
Levellers killed by turncoats in Cromwells New Model Army at Burford
Town. Piped polemics bringing the past into the present as The
Man With The Beard links the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the
leader of The Levellers John Liburne, together while warning of the
growth of a religious cult of personalty, it's also a great example
of a present day ranter at work, spreading the word with humour
through music and song. On the track Wellingbourgh and Wigan
Attila and his Barnstormers sets the diggers story to a spade
wielding ska folk jig of a tune. The Ranters were an interesting
bunch, and attracted the more lunatic fringes of society to their
ranks, they were 'blasphemeous' ie they saw god differently to
others,and foulmouthed. Abiezer Coppe was one such man and his
tale is told by Attila, while also recounting his days when he first
began his journey as a ranting poet in the 1980's alongside the likes
of Seething Wells and Little Brother. The English Civil War has been
a fertile ground for musicians to feed from; Bands like New Model
Army and The Levellers were named after radical factions in the War,
this is referenced in The Voice, which may be about Thomas
Rainsborough the New Model Army leader, or Justin Sullivan, New Model
Army Guitarist/Vocalist. A World Turned Upside Down
the old diggers ballad, has been covered by amongst others Billy
Bragg, The Barracudas and Chumbawumba, who also recorded The
Diggers Song, originally written by Diggers leader Gerald
Winstanley. Barnstormer 1649's versions seem to carry more conviction
and authenticity to these ears.
Restoration Tragedy is more than just a
record it's a work of art; both musically and lyrically it paints
pictures. Brilliant stuff! the album is out now on
Roundhead Records, only available on vinyl or CD, because it is more
than just the music that matters, and you don't get a booklet that
puts all the historical references in the songs into context with a
download. Available from Attila's Webpage.
FOOTNOTE:
The 1960's Underground Scene, 80's
Anarcho Punk, and the environmental movements in the 90's Red Wedge,
and Momentum have carried on the Diggers / Levellers and Ranters
visions of a commonwealth for all to share, freedom of expression,
political change. are all part of a lineage from The Peasants Revolt,
The Tol Puddle Martyrs, The Chartists, The Womens Suffragette
movement and Trade Unions. The English Civil War is a period in our
history which the rich and powerful
have tried to erase, no doubt because they know that the same issues
exist today as they did then, and as they have throughout our
countries history; Inequality and Injustice. To really turn the
World Upside Down the King Capitalism needs unseating! Protest and
discontent is growing so the wealthy need to take care, but then
again so do the poor, as power can corrupt. Alternatives to the present lie in the past, and to
build a better future people need to understand and be inspired by
Britains rich heritage of rebellion, dissent and protest.....STAND
UP NOW! REFUSE TO BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP IT!
Monday 26 November 2018
"KEEP THE LANTERN BRIGHT"
Fifty years and nothing much has
changed in France or Britain, the difference is that the French know
how to hold a good protest! They're on the streets for days not
hours, that's what's left of them after the paving slabs have been
ripped up and thrown at the police.
Here in Britain the people are going to
be brainwashed into 'Brexit Boredom' in the hope that they'll accept
anything the politicians we keep in power decide what is good for us.
Deal or No deal, the choice is theirs not ours, because we had our
say in the referendum, when the will of the people was to leave the
EU, any choices were based on untruths written on the side of a bus
and populist propaganda. Prime Sinister May's deal is shite, people
know it and politicians to the left and right know it, and then she's
got the bare faced cheek to stand up and say that the people must
“Trust politicians to deliver on the vote” when it comes time for
parliament to vote deal or no deal, cos that's the choices, unless
there is another referendum, or a peoples vote to see if the will of
the people is still the same as it was two years ago, or if it has
changed, without another vote our democracy is in danger of collapse,
because no one is gonna be happy if they don't get what they voted
for, especially as they didn't really know what they were voting for,
but when they do....”I Predict a Riot!” Fuck Project Fear this
is project the future! Because the time is right when things get
tight
It was in the news a while back that
the Water Canons that the then Mayor of London Boris Johnston bought
in the wake of the 2015 Riots, but have never seen action, as the
then Home Secretary, a one Terressa May refused to authorize their
use by the Police, have been sold for scrap at a substantial
financial loss to the tax payer, thanks for that. But here's a
thought....oh the irony should the British people take to the streets
as a result of a Botched Brexit, where are those water cannons now
they're needed. No wonder there's talk of The Army being prepared
for any potential civil disobedience. What with the Tory Cunts cuts
in police funding reducing a Police Force to a Police Presence on
streets where stabbings are common place and gangs fight amongst
themselves. If there was ever a time to mobilise forces now's the
time. Imagine....If the people were united; Gang members woke up
from their Drug Daze, joined forces with the eco-warriers, anti
fascists, Momentum supporters and pissed off people from whatever
side of the political divide, and took to the streets of London for a
good protest. Vive Le Differance!
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Sunday 7 October 2018
SPEACHLESS!
We are fucked, is this shit for real.
The free world controlled by an orange ego maniac. No ifs no butts
Trump is a C**T! Ronald Regan, George Bush Snr and Jnr were all bad,
but Donald Trump is beyond bad
In 1968 the anti-establishment and
revolutionary movement the yippies demanded that a pig should be
nominated for President. Fifty years later their demands have been
met, and there is a real pig in the white house.
Donald Trump is the ultimate result of
peoples distrust in the present day democratic political system, appealing to the lowest common denominator of Populist politics;
ignorance and prejudice. The rest find his attitudes beliefs and
values appalling. His position of power legitimises Racism, bigotry,
sexism in not only the eyes of American citizens, but those in other
countries who hold the same abhorrent and archaic views. A former
cohort of his, the equally repulsive and repugnant Steve Banner has
been visiting far Right supporters across Europe for his Neo-Con
Global Agenda and Trump has appointed a sex pest; Brett Kavanaugh as
a Supreme Court Judge. A total spectacle!
CUTTINGS FROM THE PASTINGS.
Denial of the now. Britain is no
longer a global super-power, it's once mighty fleet is reduced to an
aircraft carrier with no planes, coal mines and steel plants replaced
by theme parks, out of town shopping malls and other service
industries. The days of empire are gone. What better way to
celebrate a post Brexit Britain, lets have a 'Festival' to show the
world what we are good at....putting on a show, they never get enough
of reminding us about the 2012 Olympics.
Politicians punch above their weight
hard talk and threats in Brexit negotiations if the EU don't give in
to their demands, posturing to Putin during the Novichok spy
poisoning situation. It's not the sound of them quaking in their
boots that I hear, it's the sound of laughing.
The number of Police officers is at
it's lowest since 1980, it's no wonder kids get away with murder. No
need to worry about the 'obesity crisis' as people start to starve
when Britains food supply's run out, if reports of government stock
piling food and medical supplies are to be believed. Highest levels
of poverty since the days of Margaret Thatcher.
Talk of the Leave campaign being funded
by Russia are dismissed as a crazy conspiracy by Remainers, but think
about it !?!?!?!? Divide and Rule....Who would benefit from a divided
Europe? The real superpowers; Russia, America and the new kids on
the bloc, China,
Decaying and Diseased This so called
democracy is rotten to the core. Mind control for the proles they've
sold themselves to slavery, smart phones and smart meters for the
thick, free speech for the dumb. Erase and eradicate in
a totalitarian state. Left and Right become one.
UNTITLED POEM OF MINE
A country with ideas above it's
station Britain is no longer an Empire nation.
Two World Wars and One World cup; I
really do not give a fuck!
That was then and this is now, as
they try and slaughter sacred cows.
A past that cannot be erased you
can't exhume a million graves.
Or wash away by hand the blood
stains on England’s green and pleasant land.
Killed for the wealth that they
flaunt, society is at fault
broken homes and poverty too much
violence on smart phone screens.
Reports of violence on the TV news
everyday, something has gone seriously astray.
Send an email write a tweet don't
talk to anyone on the street.
Cold steel in the chest, rivalries laid to rest.
Live is cheap no price to pay moped
riders getaway.
Snake oil selling quack politicians
offer solutions to the people for the problems governments created.
Tell them what they want to hear, but still let them live in fear.
Those with the money, they don't
care, they can survive through project fear, when it becomes an
actual reality, can they? When an angry mob have broken into their
gated community
For the shit we are about to receive
I hope you will be truly happy if you voted leave
If it's no deal all the way / Lets
see how you really feel come judgement day//
Saturday 15 September 2018
Saturday 8 September 2018
JEW DECIDE*
*Just a play on words, that's all, but
in Britain’s present political climate; Accusations of
anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn, or witch hunt and smear campaign
as I like to call it, I would like to point out that I am not
anti-Semitic/Zionist. To paraphrase the late, great Joe
Strummer....”I am anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-violence. I am
pro-creativity and against ignorance.” I'd also add to that
list....anti-power, anti-control and pro-free speech.
So putting things into context, it is
not anti-Semitic for me to criticise the Israeli government and its
Racist power and control policies towards the Palestinian people and
anyone else that dares to speak out against the actions of the
Israeli state, and support the opposition.
I don't care who threw the first rock,
it is time that the whole conflict in the middle east is brought to a
stop, before it destroys us all. It's also worth mentioning that as
well as the 6 million Holocaust victims, lest we forget that 5.5
million “enemies of the German state” (Criminals, the Insane,
homosexuals, communists, Socialists, Jehovah Witnesses and gypsies
were also murdered in atrocious circumstances. As staunch left wing
agit-punkers; the recently, reformed and still relevant Crisis said
“The Jews weren't the only ones!” (Ironically when Doug Pearce
and Tony Wakefield from the band left and formed Death in June, they
were accused of being Fascists due their imagery and lyrics,
something they refuted.)
Thursday 16 August 2018
ALVIN GIBBS and THE DISOBEDIENT SERVANTS - Ghost Train (Single) *A REVIEW*)
I always look forward to Alvin’s
songs on Urban Dogs and UK Subs albums, and wonder when he'll release
a solo album, well the time is almost now, as he's just putting the
finishing touches to Your Disobedient Servant, but as a taster
for it he's releasing a single, and pretty yummy it is to! Ghost
Train and Clumsy Fingers are a couple of ballsy
hard hitting righteous and riotous rockers; Thumping drums, pounding
bass, flesh cutting guitars and a great vocal performance of pure
power and passion, with some intelligent lyrics, a real foot tapping,
fist thumping, brain thinking slab of pumpkin coloured 7”vinyl.
Alvin's not alone on this venture, his 'backing band' The Disobedient
Servants is made up of guest musicians Brian James (Lords of The New
Church/The Damned) Leigh Heggarty (The Ruts) Steve Critall (The
Godfathers) and Jamie Oliver (UK Subs) great performances from all of
'em. The Single, with a cover designed by Gaye Black (The Adverts) is out on Halloween (31st Oct) but be
quick it's limited to 300 copies only. Available to pre-order now
from the magnificent Time and Matter Records. You'll be in for a
treat!
Monday 13 August 2018
FS1E - Words and Deeds (*A REVIEW*)
Quirky, strange and charming, and
totally out there; The genre defying FS1E, a trio of hardened
musicians from North Herts. have crafted and created a unique sound
of their own, a blend of Reggae, Post Punk, Indie and, Prog Rock
Words and Deeds, their not so difficult second album is a
very British album, the sound and sentiments couldn't come from
anywhere else. Twelve bitter sweet symphonies telling tales of
everyday people and their lives, loves, losses and fears; the good,
bad and the ugly. It's an emotional road trip of a listen that takes
a journey over the bumps and potholes of life at a time of social
and political upheaval in our not so great, green and pleasant lands. Sublime, slow burning and absorbing soulful stuff. Tempos change as tunes
chug, chop, swing and sway long.
Guitars scratch, strum and jangle, Vocal
harmonies mix with Dark rhythms, Dub grooves and jaunty up tempo
folk like jigs. These are catchy epic songs of jazzy prog
psychedelic proportions, both laid back, lively and at times uneasy
easy listening. Available now to stream on Spotify.
Saturday 11 August 2018
Sunday 5 August 2018
Sunday 29 July 2018
THIS PLACE IS BURNING: Extreme Weather for an Extreme World!
Across the world humankind
is killing itself; with knives, guns, bombs and farming implements.
The sales of these weapons of mass destruction fund the global
economy and fuel the murders, civil wars, drug wars and wars on terror
that are going on throughout the world. It's all about the power and
control!
Across the world mother
nature is fighting back against manufactured mass pollution and
historic weather cycles, all wrapped up by the global powers we let
be as 'climate change'. Theories about weather modification gather
momentum on the web, but are dismissed as pure conspiracy, despite
several news stories about Russia and China attempting it, or is this
'fake news' Well the truth is that I can see the weather is
changing, but I can't see humankind changing, for all the recycling
and conservation people do, as developing countries....develop, the
multi- nationals pump more waste into the land sea and air.
In America, Japan, Greece
and Britain fires burn, people die and infrastructures come to a
grinding halt! The futures bright, the future's what we make it, and
during these 'Trouble Torn Times' lets see the streets really heat
up, and see if stories of The British Army being prepared for
action in the event of a No Deal Brexit is 'project fear, fake news or
the truth. Take cover a Tsunami is coming!
Saturday 28 July 2018
ANGERLAND!
The older generations voted for a
future they'll never see. The younger generations are gonna be
living in a future they didn't want to see. Makes me proud to be
British! As a No Deal Brexit gets closer, It's is the time for the
now generation to wake up and think....What did I really vote for?
And if what they get isn't what they wanted, they need to stand up
and shout NO DEAL! The Left and Right should unite amongst and
despite of their differences and fight together to build a Britain to
be really proud of; a United Kingdom, not a disunited one....I'd
rather dream than live in a nightmare!
Sunday 8 July 2018
Sunday 1 July 2018
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Monday 14 May 2018
Sunday 29 April 2018
REASON 23
Three sides to every story. Fake or
break time. To good to be true, to bad.... it must be false!
Stains and smears living in post truth
age of fear and uncertainty. Information wars Deceiver....Receivers
Time for a task force and a strategy. Inconvenient truths they'd
like us to conveniently forget about while they cover up talk of
having to have photo ID in order to vote Images of gassed Syrian
children brings outrage, accusations and assumptions. Nerve agent,
secret agent, Tit for tat diplomat. Knife crime on murder mile, A
reality disconnect; actual and virtual, Views from computer screen
windows, Multi player, gang attack....Game Over! No extra lives
here!
Taking more from the poor The cuts
have stabbed the poor in the back leaving fresh wounds, amongst the
scars from past attacks. Broken and dying in front of our eyes a
promised land built on lies. Drink water till you drown because it's
good for you. A nation drugged on coffee. Watch out for the gas supply; the
arrival of reprisals. Progress! Good or bad, you decide use the red
button to cast your vote. Cyber crime; a sign of the times, a world
where technology constructs a speech a dead president (JFK) never
made makes more sense than what the living one says. Hate speech
isn't free speech, it costs....in human life!
UK gets involved in another dodgy deal
and Teresa May compromises parliamentary democracy by dropping bombs
on Syria without consulting parliament and without waiting for any
evidence as to what happened, this is carried out under the guise of
ending 'humanitarian suffering', well when USA went ahead and bombed
Syria’s chemical warfare capacity in 2014 they still used them
again. If UK Government wants to end humanitarian suffering, then
why hasn't it got involved in Yemen where a bloody war is being raged
by Saudi Arabia, who are using weapons supplied by the UK (Looks like
I've answered my own question there!) Interestingly the Saudi crown
prince visited the UK, USA and France the day before all three
countries took part in these latest attacks on Syria, no doubt he was
influencing their decision. Talking of geopolitriks you've got Iran
who along with Russia back Assad’s Syrian regime, then there's also
Israel bombing the Iranian militia in Syria who've been using the
country as a base to support the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Just who is
gonna benefit from all this? aside from the arms dealers.
No facts, the judge, jury and
executioners punishment and justice one big distraction false flags
flying. Dropping bombs never avoids escalation.
Why would Assad use Chemical Weapons
when the war against Islamic State and rebel forces has nearly been
won?
Why would Russia use nerve gas in
Salisbury to poison spy’s with the world cup coming up?
Why wouldn't Britain let Russia have a
sample of the nerve agent?
Britain didn't support the action the
US took last time they dropped bombs to stop Syria’s use of
chemical weapons....well that worked didn't it. Members of
parliament voted against any involvement. So why this time?
And just who killed UN weapons
inspector Dr David Kelly back in 2003 in the wake of Iraq and claims
of weapons of mass destruction being exaggerated by New Labour
Government, because it wasn't suicide like the establishment would
like us to believe.
A BIG LIE
Create a fantastical spy thriller plot
about a Russian spy poisoned by a nerve agent miles from a British
Chemical Research facility. The Russians get the blame although
there is no actual evidence that it came from Russia. Britain and
many countries including the USA and France expel Russian diplomats
as punishment, and insults are traded by foreign ministers on both
sides. The Russian spy his daughter, Schipol family and a policeman
who came into contact with the poison recover, and the only thing to
die was the families pet guinea pig. Britain’s involvement with America in
bombing Syria wasn't about the nations security it was payback for
USA support in expelling Russian diplomats after the attack on the
Schipols and it's future economic interest; from Chlorine Gas to
Chlorine washed chicken.
The US had to retaliate and bomb Syria
to cover up the fabrication of gas attacks, and as a justification to
attack Syria and get at Russia. Who's got the biggest knob Putin or
Trump, it doesn’t matter cos they are both great big knobs,
unfortunately when their macho posturing starts, so does trouble in
the world. But hey Trump can't be all bad, he's helping to bring
peace to Korea, where it seems Kim Jong Un doesn't want to play the
biggest dick game. The French Prime Minister looked a bit
uncomfortable during a recent encounterhe had with Trump, who
appeared to be having some homo-erotic love in with him during a
state visit.
Syrian and Salisbury chemical weapon
attacks and the retaliation have been washed away in the wake of the
Windrush Generation scandal, were those and the relatives of others
that came to Britain from the West Indies in the 50's and helped
build Britain, keep it moving and keep it well have now been told to
keep away in order to satisfy immigration targets that Amber Rudd the
Home Secretary doesn't seem to know anything about, and then she
does, whatever, but surely the previous Home Sec; Teresa May must
have been aware of as they formed part of her 'hostile environment'
for immigrants. Seeds were sown many dawns ago, from them solid
oaks have grown; fear, prejudice and hatred has taken root across
England’s green and pleasant lands. Great Britain is a nation
built on racism, it is the dark heart of this country that continues
to beat; from the days of empire and colonialism via 70's sitcoms to
the death of Stephen Lawrence with the inappropriate 'gaffs' made by
Prince Philip and Prince Charles thrown in for good measure, topped
by anti-Semitism rows in Labour Party and this present governments
immigration policy. You don't need a United Nations report to tell
you something you already know! People need to stop dancing to it's beat!
Monday 2 April 2018
LAST GREAT DREAMERS - 13th Floor Renegades (*A REVIEW*)
13th Floor Renegades is the
new album from London Rock'n'Roll err!.... renegades Last Great
Dreamers. The heart and soul of Last Great Dreamers is the song
writing partnership between fellow guitarists and vocalists Marc
Valentine and Slyder one which has lasted on and off for 30 years,
and on this, the bands third album it has been distilled and
fermented to produce a very special blend of the finest Rock'n'Roll
brew I've tasted for a while. The Last Great Dreamers have taken the
Stones/Faces/Who and Kinks rock'n'roll templates and twisted them
into something completely different and produced another kind of
blueprint. Eleven electric and eclectic examples of
Rock'n'Roll that dares to be different.
This
is timeless and tuneful, foot-tapping, heart aching and
fist thumping stuff. Vocals are subtle and soulful, delicate and
defiant, these songs mean something! Drums
shuffle and pound, the bass bops and bends as guitars ring and riff,
screech and slide with a never say die no surrender attitude.
Opening
track New Situation
is a catchy rocky poppy punky affair, which sets the tone for the
rest of the album without spoiling the surprises. Title track 13th
Floor Renegades
is a dreamy post psychedelic tale of escaping the mundane. Then
there's the wired and taut New Wave feel
of Speed of Light and
the mellow aching
beauty of For Your Information.
Which is followed by the backs to the wall balls out stomping strut
of Primitive Man. The
fast and frantic No Sunshine
and I Think I Like It have
rings of 90's Britpop/Indie to
them and Broken Things
sounds like a fight between The Only Ones and Social Distortion,
while Miles Away is
a floaty, folky and mournful
affair. Whose Side are You On is
blessed with some lovely vocal harmonies and Going Home
is a crashing, crunchy and cascading epic end to this brilliant
affair. Last Great Dreamers you should be very proud! and everyone else....Time to wake up!
13th Floor Renegades is released by Ray Records on April....13th....a Friday, now for all you good people that's what I call.... lucky! Further info on Last Great Dreamers can be found on their Facebook page, or website.
Sunday 1 April 2018
THE DERELLAS - High Rise Supersize (*A REVIEW*)
The DeRellas never fail to deliver the
Punk'n'Glam goods, and their latest package the 3 track High Rise
Super size single is no exception, it careers along with riotous and righteous gay abandon, like a Ford Capri on the Rock'n'Roll highway. The two DeRellas tunes; High Rise Supersize and Something To Say
kiss and punch you in the face like the early Manic Street Preachers
and The Ruts and a cover of The Sweets Fox On The Run, stuffs and
pads the box out nicely. Released on Rockaway Beach Records! Order it from The DeRellas Store for a
bit of streetwise sparkle during these trouble torn times, and
remember when you stick it to the man and kick against the shits keep a smile on yer face and a
song in yer heart!
“HIGH RISE SUPER SIZE, WHAT YOU GONNA
DO ABOUT IT?!”
Sunday 11 March 2018
Saturday 3 March 2018
MARCHING ON.... A FEW THOUGHTS!
Draconian new laws about what the
public can or can't do in public places; No tree climbing in parks,
or kite flying on playing fields. Oxfam save the children for their
exploitation.
Re-writing history with an air brush.
Bad news buried like babies in the rubble of the Syrian city of
Ghouta, or like cars on the snow covered A30 as a result from the
winter storm they called the 'Beast from The East'
Human rights, human wrongs. War
crimes, knife crimes. Human life is cheap, but our children pay the
price in a morally bankrupt world. Gun crazy! Mass shootings in
Amerika, a common place national disgrace, as are the stabbings on
the streets of British towns and cities.
Where are we going? People cross
minefields of identity; sexual and cultural. A fear of offence or
violence in a cotton wool nation where common sense becomes rare as
smart phones turn people dense. In the information age many are ill
informed and misled to the point of possibly voting away Britain's
future. In a flat screen slumber people believe the unicorn promises
of the politicians and the advertisers that we can't do without what
they are selling.... There is an alternative....Don't buy their shit!
Saturday 24 February 2018
BETTER RE(A)D THAN DEAD!
The Jeremy Corbyn spy story/smear.
Truth or Fiction, you decide! It's about discrediting the opposition,
It aint sputnik science.... So what if there's a soviet skeleton in
JC's cupboard, that was the past, meanwhile in the present the
British government are happy to take the rouble from Russian
oligarchs who are slowly buying up the country for their future. So
whose the bigger threat to 'national security'? Socialism is about
the social, Conservatism is about the con!
Saturday 10 February 2018
WHO KNOWS WHAT'S TRUE OR NOT, JUST DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
The hypnotised never lie.
Fakery / Trickery / Tricksters and Jokers. Dangerous times,
Dangerous minds. Smoke and mirrors The hypnotised cannot see. The
truth police....Who watches the watchers? Fake news? Truth and
censorship who decides what is true. Government power tyranny and
totality. Who controls the media has the power to control the minds
of the masses!
Madmen in Authority What's
their problem with fake news? Or is the problem that the powers that
we let be don't like what they hear or uncomfortable truths are
revealed. As the sands of time pass they show there were different
grains of truths to the stories we were told. For example
Piers Morgan, resigned as
editor of Daily Mirror after the paper published a fake picture of
troops torturing Afghan prisoners, at the time it was denounced as
being made up news. A couple of years latter when the truth came
out, it turns out that troops did carry out abuse and torture of
prisoners.
Alternative facts and
conspiracy theories ask questions when the mainstream answers are
questionable. The truth is stranger than f(r)iction. I heard on the
radio recently that there are proposals to set up a government
department for fake news. I don't know if this is true or not, but
the frightening thing is that I can see this happening in the not too
distant future.
A Miss-information society,
is being constructed in front of our eyes, a future reality where big
lies can be disguised and dismissed as fake news, because nobody
will know what is real or not. A virtual reality of tweets, postings
and intsagram messages compete with the state sanctioned discourse of
events, information overload.
We are not in a good
place. The number of Suicides is rising, Crime is rising,
homelessness is rising and the gap between the rich and poor is
widening. So what does the Con-Government do....continues to cut
numbers of police, builds unaffordable housing that is bought by
foreign investors not to live in, all the while manipulating the
statistics and using the private sector to do the jobs of the state,
there by washing their hands of any responsibility for the outcomes
when it all falls down, and then they blame the people and make them
pay. Now is the time stand together, just like those who took to the
streets of London a couple of weeks ago to protest about cuts in the
NHS, not that anyone watching the BBC news that evening would have
known it happened, because it wasn't reported. We are in this
together, it's just that they don't want us to know it, because if
differences were put aside people would find they had much more in
common than they had been led to believe they had. A real United
Kingdom is something that those in power do not want, because it
would mean they would be out of a job and in the hands of the
people.... and that's the truth of the matter.
JACQUES DERRIDA Says....
....“Capitalism's media triumph conceals
the truth that it has never been more fragile, threatened,
catastrophic. Something else has surpassed both the Marxism
figure-headed by a totalitarian Soviet bloc and it's liberal free
market opponent. This 'something' is a set of hypereality
transformations in the spheres of science, technology and economics
which put our traditional notions of 'democracy' in grave doubt.”
Monday 5 February 2018
THE MISTAKES - Anti-Social Media (*A REVIEW*)
Anti-Social Media is the debut album from the south coast of England's premier punk rockers.... The Mistakes from Poole in Dorset, and it goes a bit like this....It's a twelve track treat; An old skool new skool punk rock breakout that brings the past to the present and takes it into the future, think....UK Subs, Subhumans and Rancid, and then some! Power chords, pounding drums, luscious guitar licks and meandering bass lines bleed from the speakers. It's a 100mph charge; fast, frantic and furious laced with twists of Ska; thrashy and tuneful with catchy choruses, it's toe tapping, head banging and fist thumping stuff.... and it will blow your ears off! These are powerful and passionate songs, they are address's to a nation in distress, a hollering voice of hope and dissent, anthems for the underdogs that refuse to quit in an age of austerity, anxiety, alienation and anger. A slab of skanking socially aware rabble rousing street punk which comes straight from the heart, kicks you in the guts, leaves a smile on yer face and makes yer brain think. What more could you ask from an Album/CD/Download? Anti-Social Media is out now on Never BeQuiet Records. and the band can be found here on facebook. You'd be making a big mistake if you didn't check 'em out!
Sunday 4 February 2018
Sunday 21 January 2018
TONY JUDT Says....
....“Those who assert that 'the system'
is at fault,or who see mysterious manoeuvrings behind every
political misstep, have little to teach us. But the disposition to
disagree, to reject and to dissent-however irritating it may be when
taken to extremes-is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need
people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. A democracy
of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.” - in ILL FARES THE LAND
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