The Reverend Billy came to London one autumn weekend to connect Occupy London with Occupy Wall Street. He landed, made his way to St Paul’s and found himself sleeping in Emily James’s vacant tent [complete with inflatable mattress under the bells of the cathedral].
He gave a rousing sermon livelinked with our friends in New York [...]
Today we have been busy working out the lyrics to Belarus’ entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. Seems a reasonable break from looking Indian cotton farmer suicide statistics.
Twenty-year-old Anastasiya Vinnikova sings the praises of her homeland with a Stalinist disco swagger. The audience nods with sycophantic gusto.
“You’re my passion, do it old-fashioned / When I [...]
Artists and activists will gather in the saunic sweat of Dalston’s Cafe Oto this Friday to revive “Cafe Carbon“, a musical devised by The Gluts for the COP15 demonstrations this past winter in Copenhagen.
The Gluts are Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman. Gina’s a founding member of The Raincoats, I once lay in Kaffe’s [...]
Shake off those winter blustery blows with this.
Rock on….
as featured on Queen’s Absolute Greatest album
“Bonjour!” A hearty French greeting delivered in a Flemish accent.
With stages like “Le Petit Maison dans la Prairie” and notice boards in French, Flemish and English, you’re a long way from Glastonbury.
Punters, bands, staff and food vendors deftly skip from one tongue to another.
Just the sort of thing to make you feel like an inadequate, [...]
