Thursday 28 November 2013
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Delighted to be involved in this important project.
Anyone wanting to get the blood pumping in advance of this timely show at the Coronet should check out Al Miles movie - The Last Night London Burned - which we put together alongide George Binette's excellent book to celebrate that landmark occasion at Acton Town Hall and the life and work of Joe Strummer.
You can catch it in four slices on You Tube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrLZ89qCVs
Plenty of people regretted missing out on that night eleven years ago - don't miss this one!
Saturday 23 November 2013
Benefit for Firefighter Hardship Fund in memory of Joe Strummer : The Start
Benefit for Firefighter Hardship Fund in memory of Joe Strummer : The Start: Is it our embryonic familiarity with keeping a beat that returns us to rhythm, again and again, to feel better about living in this world? Music making people matter is here ...
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The Start
In the 70s and 80s I remember many musicians and producers uniting to change racist attitudes and policies, to feed the starving in Africa, to put food on the table of striking miners and firefighters to name a few - Joe Strummer took up the baton 11 years ago playing at Acton Fire Station in London to support striking firefighters; its a proud tradition to follow. In honour of him and the firefighters currently in hardship for standing up against unfair changes to employment and pensions, musicians and supporters unite again on December 21st to raise money and awareness of positive social action . To all those putting the pressure, Taurus Trakker, Phil Horsley, Dez Lewis, Louise Holden, Sam + Marcus at The Coronet, Geoff Martin, Joe Williams, Matt Wrack and myself say..
"And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to.
And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their
little tracks - I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little
mouse trail. People can do anything - this is something that I'm beginning to
learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because
they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center
of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They
should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people
you're nothing. That's my spiel.” ― Joe Strummer
"And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to.
And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their
little tracks - I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little
mouse trail. People can do anything - this is something that I'm beginning to
learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because
they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center
of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They
should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people
you're nothing. That's my spiel.” ― Joe Strummer
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