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Category Archives: Follytricks!
SO LONG ERIC! Not Dolphy… Hobsbawm!
‘So long Eric’ was Charles Mingus’ tribute to the late great saxophonist/bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy and in this short piece I pay my respects the another revolutionary, another Eric – Eric Hobsbawm – who passed away a couple of days … Continue reading
STANDING UP AGAINST PUTIN, THE KGB & THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: Feminist punk group Pussy Riot face up to 3 years in prison.
Sitting in the glass cage alongside her two fellow band members Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a clenched fist and the the famous Spanish War slogan ‘No Pasaran’. It’s a trial that Dolores … Continue reading
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Pre Dawn scribblings on a trip to Aotearoa… this is Part 1… Nuff more to come!
It’s 3.15 am. I’ve been off the digital radar for the past ten days. Swifty and I were working on a couple of British Council funded projects in Aukland, New Zealand aka Aotearoa. Arrived back in London town yesterday. Got … Continue reading
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Tagged Aotearoa, Aukland, Blackpool, British Council, Conch, Cut Collective, David Hockney, Doze Green, Fracking, Gasland, Josh Fox, LatinAotearoa, Swifty
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Shocking! Listen to Arnie Gunderson’s Fukushima Update
Chatting with a friend last night she raised the issue of nuclear power in Japan and what a relief it must be that they’ve finally shut down the nuclear power plants in Japan. While that’s all good, an ongoing disaster … Continue reading
JOY IN PEOPLE – ARE YOU DOWN WITH THAT?
To tell the truth, when we arrived at the Hayward Gallery to check the double header of David Shrigley and Jeremy Deller I knew very little about either. Basically, I knew Shrigley was one whimsical dude while Deller had studied … Continue reading
Pinnacle & The First Rasta … the story of Leonard ‘Gong’ Howell
Following on from her celebrated book – The First Rasta – my long time friend, French music journalist and occasional contributor to Straight No Chaser, Hélène Lee, has collaborated with Christophe Farnarier, and directed a compelling portrait of Leonard “Gong” Howell’s … Continue reading
ONE YEAR ON…. AFTERSHOCKS OF THE TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE
It’s one year on from the Tohoku tsunami and earthquake disaster and in the wake of the stirring images and stories that have reached us I am more than hacked off with a bunch of pro nuclear power scribblers who are … Continue reading
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Tagged Anniversary, Arnie Gunderson, Eric Besson, Fukushima Daiishi Power Plant, japan, Nuclear Power, Tohuku Earthquake, tsunami
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Sweet Baadasssss Melvin Van Peebles & Occupy!
Coinciding with famed film director Melvin Van Peebles lending his voice to the Occupy Wall Street Movement is the rumour that the radical OG was “the first African American trader on the floor at the Wall Street Stock Exhange.” Personally, … Continue reading
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Tagged adlib, Bill Cosby, Burnt Sugar, Film, Melvin Van Peebles, Oakland, Occupy Wall Street Movement, weetback's Baadasssss Song
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A little show of Resistance that failed to make the headlines! Wonder why?
My good friend and photographer Kristian Buus was on the case on Monday as the Health and Care Bill, which has been passed by the British Parliament, is now due to go to the House of Lords. In protest against … Continue reading
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Tagged Con-Dem, Demonstrations, Kristian Buus, NHS Cuts, Protest, UK Uncut
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Book Bizniz… Which ‘Dudus’ dem a look for? Jamaica’s First President…
OVER A YEAR HAS ELAPSED since the world watched in awe as the Jamaican police and armed forces made a military style incursion into Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston in an attempt to arrest and extradite Michael Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke … Continue reading
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