Music, Spoken Phrase and Protest. Per week or two in the past I obtained a Fb invitation suggesting I hearken to a month-to-month radio present on Riverside Radio, the Colin Crilly Takeover, a month-to-month present with hosts Andy Bungay and Colin Crilly. On this version they had been to “be taking part in SONGS with a political/social angle, and discussing the problems raised.”
Colin Crilly is somebody I’ve usually met and photographed on protests in London and who has every now and then requested me to be interviewed for the present, however I’ve by no means carried out so. Radio isn’t actually a great medium for pictures.
Riverside Radio is a neighborhood station overlaying a large space of southwast London, primarily the boroughs of Wandsworth, Richmond and Merton however accessible to everybody on the internet. I didn’t go online to the reside present reside because it airs for 2 hours from 11pm on a Saturday evening, a time after I’m often exhausted and solely prepared to go to sleep. Or if I’ve had a very busy day overlaying occasions I would nonetheless be modifying the work.
However a couple of days later, Colin despatched me a hyperlink to a recording of the present on MixCloud and I started to hearken to it. I’ve not managed to listen to the entire two hours and I discovered MixCloud a irritating expertise as, maybe as a result of I haven’t subscribed, I couldn’t skip ahead and after I took a relaxation it reverted to the beginning of the observe. Since radio doesn’t include photos (besides within the thoughts) I’ve added a few of my very own to this put up.
It was good to listen to a observe by Anne Feeney, the late nice US people musician, singer-activist and lawyer who died in 2021. Her ‘Have You Been To Jail For Justice?’ and her traces “A rotten legislation stays on the books til people like us defy it, The legislation’s speculated to serve us, and so are the police, And when the system fails, it’s as much as us to talk our piece …” are very related now. It led to some fascinating dialogue by Colin and Andy, however maybe it may have been associated somewhat extra to the approaches of teams reminiscent of Extinction Rebel and Insulate Britain within the UK.
Subsequent up was Paul Hardcastle’s ’19’, concerning the Vietnam Battle, however launched in 1985, which apparently made an enormous impression on a then-young Colin. It actually was a ground-breaking launch in a number of methods, however just like the interview with John Lennon which adopted – and preceded his ‘The Idiot On the Hill’, did give the present appear somewhat an instructional and historic strategy to the topic.
I didn’t get a lot additional in listening – and I feel these had been the one songs within the first hour of the present, although I might need fallen asleep a bit – there was plenty of lengthy dialogue. George Michael on BBC Exhausting Speak in 2002 got here into it. It’s maybe a disgrace that there wasn’t a playlist on the MixCloud web page.
Among the many hashtags there was #london and I didn’t assume I’d heard a lot about London or protests there within the a part of the present I heard. Nor did I get to listen to the promised Wooden Guthrie, whose songs I used to play and sing badly from a a lot dog-eared paperbook in my youth, although fortuitously seldom in public.
However lots of the protests I’ve attended through the years have included performances by singers in addition to spoken phrase performers, and naturally the sound of virtually all marches in recent times has been the samba band. How or if the current act designed to forestall efficient protest alters this stays to be seen.
I’ll simply point out a couple of of these I’ve been impressed by – and have photographed in London. On his site is that this description of Cosmo, primarily based in Wales in addition to a lot of music movies that includes him and his buddies.
Cosmo is “a one-man folk-punk phenomenon.” (Miniature Music Press). Over the course of 14 albums and 30 years of touring, he has established himself as a formidable voice on the UK and worldwide underground.
He has appeared at Glastonbury, the Edinburgh Fringe and different main UK festivals, in addition to touring throughout the UK, Europe, North and South America and the Center East. In that point, he has shared phases with Billy Bragg, Frank Turner, Grace Petrie, John Cooper Clarke, Mark Thomas and extra. Cosmo has received awards on the Edinburgh fringe and Hay fringe festivals.
An activist in addition to a musician, Cosmo has additionally carried out at numerous picket traces, protest camps, rallies and demos, in addition to being concerned with neighborhood organising.
I’ve photographed Cosmo a number of occasions, significantly at protests with Class Battle and at all times been impressed by the raise he offers to protesters.
Fairly a couple of rappers and poets have additionally carried out at occasions I’ve photographed. Poetry on the Picket Line does precisely what the title counsel. Poets within the group, together with hip Hamer, Janine Sales space, Nadia Drews, Joe Solo, Tim Watts, Tim Kiely, Owen Collins, Repeat Beat Poet, Mark Coverdale, Lantern Service and Michael Breen, studying their work within the spirit of solidarity
on picket traces and at rallies.
Georgie, a London primarily based rapper and spoken phrase artist performs as Potent Whisper. Canine Part Press printed his ‘The Rhyming Information to Grenfell Britain‘ together with the textual content of 9 full-length items, I feel all of which I’d heard him ship at numerous demonstrations in addition to in movies, together with The Rhyming Information to NHS Privatisation, Property of Battle and Grenfell Britain. The ebook is price getting if you will discover a duplicate. An article by him within the New Internationalist features a hyperlink to his ‘You’ll By no means Edit Grenfell‘ and you’ll view extra on his YouTube channel.
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