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Music Goulash: May 2014
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Thursday, May 01, 2014. 1979 - a game changing year. From Vive Le Rock. By any standards 1979 was a tumultuous year, it started with the Winter of Discontent and the death of Sid Vicious and ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the appearance of rap in the charts with the Sugarhill Gang’s cheerful Rappers Delight, a far cry from Fuck The Police! On the plus side, hair gel was about to make a huge statement. Sham 69, Generation X, The Skids. Meanwhile the PR folk had been busy in their worksh...
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Music Goulash: October 2013
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Sunday, October 27, 2013. By now nearly everybody in the world has seen Russell Brand being interviewed by Jazza Paxman. And, essentially, saying everything that many of us think and feel about the current state of politics and social organisation. We all applaud and, like a sugar rush or shot of strong spirits, the emotions rush to our heads and we punch the air while sat in front of our computer, smart phone or tablet; and there lies the rub. We remain seated. Because UKIP turned up at the polls, that&...
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Music Goulash: Flights of fantasy with Amara Touré
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Friday, June 19, 2015. Flights of fantasy with Amara Touré. Without wishing to evoke some liberal wish fulfilment and view the past through some rose tinted revision of history there are times when you come across music, created at moments in time, that you wish and desire that you could have been there to witness it and live it. My children often express regret that they weren’t living in London in 1976 (I assure them that apart from Punk kicking off it was pretty shitty! The ten tracks on this album ar...
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Music Goulash: February 2012
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Saturday, February 04, 2012. What the fuck was I doing? I stand now in the place where I am, happy, with kids and a family, without parents nearly sixty; Christ how did I get so old? Some, maybe many, could say it I just some vague longing for the time that was most exciting in my life, like those old guys you used to meet in the Seventies who would talk endlessly about the war because it was the only exciting thing that had happened, or even worse those people who would drone on and on about University.
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Music Goulash: Fela Kuti, Revolutionary Dream.
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Friday, February 22, 2013. Fela Kuti, Revolutionary Dream. 8221; and played me Heroin by the Velvet Underground; I dragged him in to hear Dirt by The Stooges. Record shop guy sort of tolerated us and then one day said “You two need to hear this”. It was Why Black Man Dey Suffer by Fela Kuti. I never really listened to music the same again. Many foreign companies dey Africa carry all our money go. Many foreign companies dey Africa carry all our money go. Son of the Suburbs. Fela Kuti, Revolutionary Dream.
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Born in London, Francesca soon moved to France where she grew up reading comics, watching old movies, listening to rock music and drawing with her brothers. She came back to England, went to art college and found punk. Since the nineties Francesca has been supplying illustrations to a variety of publications. Her self-published books and comics are mostly autobiographical and cover such topics as Punk Rock, parties, pinball; she drew. The Most Natural Thing In The World. Visit fabtoons blog HERE.
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Music Goulash: 1979 - a game changing year.
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Thursday, May 01, 2014. 1979 - a game changing year. From Vive Le Rock. By any standards 1979 was a tumultuous year, it started with the Winter of Discontent and the death of Sid Vicious and ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the appearance of rap in the charts with the Sugarhill Gang’s cheerful Rappers Delight, a far cry from Fuck The Police! On the plus side, hair gel was about to make a huge statement. Sham 69, Generation X, The Skids. Meanwhile the PR folk had been busy in their worksh...
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Music Goulash: March 2011
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The son also rises. I can still remember the moment when I first heard Seun Kuti's father, Fela Kuti, for the first time. The track was I.T.T. On the Black President album. It was something of an epiphany comparable with hearing the Velvets, Big Youth or The Ramones for the first time. The very soul of the music exuded protest and anger, before Africa became the cause du jour. Tracks like African Soldier and Mr Big Thief gives us the setting for this new anger, Slave Masters an...
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Music Goulash: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011. At the end of my Teather. So, deciding I'd take part in this grand pantomime we call democratic politics in Great (sic) Britain I decided to write to my local MP, Ms Sarah Teather. No, really, we really hate tuition fees" I sort of imagine that they'd want to keep their word. Particularly when they are a minority party who's percentage of the vote was inflated by students flocking to their cause; but hey, that's just me. According to Ms Teather:. Under the new system every gra...
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