SPRING HAS SPRUNG
Spring is sprung, the grass is ris.
I wonders where the birdies is.
They say the birds is on the wing.
Ain't that absurd?
I always thought the wing was on the bird
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| Spring 2016, the return of the parakeets and a couple of other visitors,.gnu March 2016 |
Spring in The Bronx by Anon
I wonders where the birdies is.
They say the birds is on the wing.
Ain't that absurd?
I always thought the wing was on the bird
Loving the days getting noticeably longer, no time for chit chat though, the usual eclectic, scrambled mix awaits...cue the countdown to lift off.......
Saturday 16th April Seventh Wave Presents Vic Godard & Subway Sect, Yeah Yeah Noh and Harry Stafford (Inca Babies)The Flapper Cambian Wharf Kingston Row Birmingham B1 2NU
Chris Wave has put together another stellar night's entertainment at the Flapper.https://www.facebook.com/events/619040984902231/
Dave Morgan (The Weather Prophets, ATV, The Rockingbirds.......) will be debuting as the Sect's very Special Guest drummer and to celebrate gnu inc is giving away a free CD single of 'Pay The Rate', recorded live in 2011 by Lee McFadden and featuring Dave Morgan, to all advance ticket holders. https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/vic-godard-and-subway-sect-yeah-yeah-noh-pete-astor/10038475 Below is another version from 2011, The Subway Sect Trio, Vic, Mark Braby and Kevin Younger, playing a blinder at The Greystones June 2011.
http://vicgodardandsubwaysect.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page_21.html
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| The Dave and Lee Travesty Show Episode 13 by Tracey Holloway 2016 |
Tracey Holloway's extraordinary visual interpretation of Episode 13 of the Dave and Lee Travesty Show on Croydon Radio, hosted by Dave Smith and Lee McFadden. Looking forward to seeing what Tracey is inspired to come up with on Sunday 24th April when Vic is special guest on the show. http://croydonradio.com/
If you are intrigued by Tracey's depiction of Episode 13 and haven't already listened here's the podcast link:
http://croydonradio.com/podcast/show.php?HistoryID=62cbacd0-a7ca-94be-bddd-d0ea053f7fcb
Spinningchilli Presents
Vic & Subway Sect and The Bitter Springs
Green Door Store
Trafalgar Arches (under the station)
Brighton BN1 4FQ
Celebrating nearly 20 years of collaborations between Vic and Simon Rivers & the Springs. The gnu inc Gig Special CD for Brighton (FREE to all advance ticket holders!) is going to be Vic and the Springs doing Wayward Biro. The version below was filmed at Stripes Bar Brentford by Jock McTavish 2004.
1st/2nd May Portobello Live!
Portobello Live! Bank Holiday Bonanza over Sunday/Monday 1st/2nd May - Live Music, Spoken Word, Cabaret, Art and Street Food. One Wristband, Two Days, Twelve Venues, Eighty Acts...including Vic and Subway Sect and the lovely Jock Scot on Sunday 1st.
Early Bird Tickets for entry to any/all events over the two days of the festival are available here: https://www.musicglue.com/portobello-live/tickets/
What is being cooked up for Saturday 25th June?
CCA Glasgow - Creeping Bent Presents Vic Godard & The Stool Pigeons,Russell Burns, Mick Slaven, Malcolm Ross and Campbell Owens. Douglas MacIntyre will be busy WITH.. Secret Goldfish who are launching their LP, after a 15 year wait WITH James Kirk on guitar AND he maybe doing a solo set as well. More info to follow.
Sunday 26th June Vic Godard & The Subway Sect and The Jazzateers Glasgow Jazz Festival. Vic will be getting back with Chris Bostock, Rob Marche, Sean McLusky AND Pete Saunders will be tinkling the ivories with them this time. The
photographs in the poster were taken at the last reunion of The Subway
Sect at the 100 Club 20th November 2014 by Jock McTavish, you can read
about the night here, about two thirds of the way down: http://www.vicgodardandsubwaysect.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=8
it just so happens that it was Mr McTavish who filmed this video on the night of 'Be Your Age'.
Looking forward to XiriaPop Festival!
2/3rd September
Carballo Galicia
Vic Godard & Subway Sect
The Wellgreen
Brand New Sinclairs and more TBA.
Thursday 13th October 
Dandy Presents
Vic Godard & Subway Sect
Plus Special Guests TBA
Gullivers
109 Oldham Street
Manchester M4 1LW
Shaping up to be another memorable night, more details to follow. Advance tickets: https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/vic-godard-subway-sect-1e31f4
Two more Dandy delights for you coming up in May:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/event/the-nightingales-ted-chippington-3/
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/event/the-fallen-leaves-proto-idiot/
Two more Dandy delights for you coming up in May:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/event/the-nightingales-ted-chippington-3/
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/event/the-fallen-leaves-proto-idiot/
Friday 14th October
Children of Godard Special
Vic Godard & Subway Sect
AND Band of Holy Joy
Plus Special Guests TBC
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street
Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 1LD
Another unforgettable COG night on the cards.
Another unforgettable COG night on the cards.
Advance tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/351221
and locally at Beatdown Records, Reflex and RPM Music, more info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1728862264012606/?active_tab=posts
Details for UK gigs above here:
http://www.vicgodard.co.uk/vic_godard_live.html
Details for UK gigs above here:
http://www.vicgodard.co.uk/vic_godard_live.html
http://tickets-scotland.com/vic00
http://www.stereocafebar.com/ Glasgow
Amongst many other goodies Sounds in the Suburbs has coming up this year are these two nights of delight - 8th April in Edinburgh and 11th April in Glasgow.
https://www.facebook.com/soundsin.thesuburbs
Keep an eye out for updates on Vic's fb for gig updates.
Work continuing on the 'Find Out Over Time/Dead Dreamy' 7", more news in the next blog.
www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk
http://www.radiojoy.co.uk/
http://ingatillere.com/field_notes.html
https://www.facebook.com/galerija.flu?__mref=message_bubble
Talking of Belgrade still keeping fingers crossed that we can bring VicLeka to London later in the year.
On it's Way.....on 1st May 2015 Neu! Reekie! released Neu! Reekie!
#UntitledOne at a packed La Belle Angele. #UntitledOne was a 31 writer strong, mighty poetry anthology and
21 track downloadable album (with a limited run of bespoke USBs). It included new and
exclusive tracks from the likes of Momus, The Sexual Objects, TeenCanteen, Gareth Sager/Pop Group and many more. The book had new work from
Irvine Welsh, Liz Lochhead, Hollie McNish, Aidan Moffat, Tom Leonard and Jenni
Fagan amongst many others. The exclusive, hand numbered hampers (which
included rare Rebel Inc magazines, prints, books) were quickly snapped up, look out for updates as #UntitledTwo is bound to go like hot cakes as well. (forgot
to mention Vic's got a track on this one) https://www.facebook.com/neureeking/?fref=ts
BBC
Artsnight Series 2 Episode 27 - Thurston Moore talks punk with Pete
Shelley, Chrissie Hynde, Julien Temple and celebrates X-Ray Spex, one of
his favourite groups (and they play Ambition at the start). About two weeks left to watch:
'Cold London Blues from Master of Noir Paul D Brazill (Caffeine Nights Publishing) - Out 14th July 2016 - Pre-order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/cold-london-blues/paul-d-brazill/9781910720554
"A killer priest is on the rampage across
London and an egotistical Hollywood action movie star is out for revenge when
is his precious comic book collection is stolen.Meanwhile, gangster Marty
Cook's dreams of going legit swiftly turn pear shaped when one of his bouncers
accidentally kills one of his salsa club's regular customers.Razor sharp
wisecracks, gaudy characters and even gaudier situations abound in Cold London
Blues, a violent and pitch-black Brit Grit comedy of errors." http://pauldbrazill.com/
If you live in Zurich or/and are planning a visit, the 37th Zürcher Theater Spektakel is taking place from Thursday 18 August to Sunday 4 September. If you are there look out for an art project and exhibition that Vic was delighted to be asked to contribute to. Original and fascinating idea, Phil Hayes is asking a variety of people to pick a location, find a photograph of it, record a description and forward to him with the reason for the choice. The recording only is then sent to an artist in another country to interpret from the description given. The resulting paintings with original photograph and recording will then be exhibited at the Theater Spektakel Festival. It's hoped it will be an ongoing project, continuing after the festival. More info to follow.
http://www.thefirstcut.ch/index.php?page=phil-hayes
Still on the art front, if you are lucky enough to be in Valencia you can catch Miu Mirambell exhibition, on until 3rd April: https://www.facebook.com/mmirambell/?fref=ts
You're a better gnu than I if you can make it through 43 minutes of ELP doing the same piece (I managed one and a half minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4igIQ2TOASg
Still on the art front, if you are lucky enough to be in Valencia you can catch Miu Mirambell exhibition, on until 3rd April: https://www.facebook.com/mmirambell/?fref=ts
Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4igIQ2TOASg
Political Miscreants - I find an awful lot of politicians unpalatable (and
awful), their smugmess, their disdain and disregard for the reality of
existence for the majority of the population. Now in the latest budget from Odious Osborne and the rest of the elitist, over
privileged bunch of bully boys that currently rule over us we have had more of the
same, we were presented with tax breaks for the have mores to be paid for by once
again by taking from the have much less/nots.
MONEY MONEY MONEY I'S A RICH MAN;S WORLD
I would not normally be able to stomach this amount of things Tory here but needs must. In my humble opinion the below is a particularly odious politician, one of the most duplicitous, cynical and hypocritical
snakes in the grass currently jostling for position in the nest along with the
other vipers. Until 18/03/2016 he was Work and Pensions Secretary, appointed in 2010 and who since then has year on year come up with many inventive ways to take from the poor to give to/bail out the rich including Atos fit-for-work
tests and sanctions for those with chronic illness or disability, which a
recent report recommends should be scrapped.
These Boots Are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra
Then there's this couple of doozys - the discredited Universal Credit (even sounds Orwellian), he recently lost his recently lost his latest legal challenge to keep problems related to the scheme secret. The case kicked off in in 2012 with a freedom of information request and this man has been procrastinating and wasting the tax payer's money by pursuing the case ever since. http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/03/17/ids-loses-legal-challenge-to-keep-universal-credit-problems
This is the latest court decision:
https://campaigningforchange.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/077-110316-final-open-decision.pdf
and of course we must not forget that harbinger of human misery and despair the Bedroom Tax, which is working out almost as well as the Universal Credit scheme.
After SIX years of faithfully following the party line and willingly colluding with and contributing to the Tory policy of annually slashing his department's budget to curry favour with Toryworld, would the whiny Mr Insultingourintelligence Dissembling Snatcher really have us believe that he is genuinely taking some kind of moral stance over the latest round of disability benefit cuts with his sudden resignation? That after all he is 'in it together' with us? At this late stage it seems wholly disingenuous for him to balk at the cuts in Odious Osborne's latest budget when he never has before and it was his department that came up with them, presumably he attended cabinet meetings leading up to the budget and only a couple of weeks ago (2nd March) voted to force through another cut of £30 pw in ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) without the impact assessment the Lords wanted to include. 7 Ways Mr Snatcher has 'helped' the disabled: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/esa-wrag-disability-benefit-cut-disabled-mps-vote-tories-iain-duncan-smith-a6918556.html#gallery
Snatcher would have us believe his damascene conversion has nothing at all to do with being an EU refusenik and the current Tory infighting over the looming UK EU IN/out referendum, the London Mayoral elections, the inevitable undignified skirmish that will ensue over the leadership at some point in the not too distant future and the increasingly vocal public backlash against the fiscal policies of yet more for them and less for everyone else. The new Work and Pension Secretary, Stephen Crabb's counter move was to announce that the £4.4bn
in cuts to the Personal Independence Payment would not now go through, there were "No plans" for further welfare cuts in this parliament, the shortfall would not come from the DWP budget and the cap on overall welfare spending would be 'reassessed'. Do I believe the Tories have all had some collective epiphany of conscience?
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| Pigs spotted flying over the Pennines |
Let's see whose tack changes back again after the EU referendum and Mayoral elections before hanging any flags out: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/18/iain-duncan-smith-resigns-from-cabinet-over-disability-cuts
You're Moving out Today - Carol Bayer Sager
Although my heart bleeds for those MPs who have been whinging about people sharing their identities on social media (including IDS), here is a roll call of dishonour of all the MPs who voted to force through the disability benefit cut on 2nd March: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/esa-wrag-disability-benefit-cut-disabled-mps-vote-tories-iain-duncan-smith-a6918556.html
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" Zac Goldsmith has been booted out as patron of a Richmond disability
charity after he voted to cut benefits for disabled people by £1,500 a
year."
'You're So Vain' comes to mind.
Je crois que la plupart des politiciens croient que nous sommes tous épais comme la merde, as some of us Europeans might say'.
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL
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| http://europa.eu/index_en.htm |
PLEASE VOTE TO STAY IN THE EU
If knowing that the
two MPs mentioned above are pro leaving the EU isn't enough reason to vote to
stay then how about 'what the EU did for us' and what we have
to lose:
Providing 57% of our trade; Structural funding to areas hit by industrial decline; Clean beaches and rivers; Cleaner air; Lead free petrol; Restrictions on landfill dumping; A recycling culture; Cheaper mobile charges; Cheaper air travel; Improved consumer protection and food labelling; A ban on growth hormones and other harmful food additives;
Better product safety; Single market competition bringing quality improvements and better industrial performance; break up of monopolies; Europe-wide patent and copyright protection; No paperwork or customs for exports throughout the single market; Price transparency and removal of commission on currency exchanges across the eurozone; Freedom to travel, live and work across Europe; Funded opportunities for young people to undertake study or work placements abroad; Access to European health services; lLbour protection and enhanced social welfare; Smoke-free workplaces; Equal pay legislation; Holiday entitlement;The right not to work more than a 48-hour week without overtime; Strongest wildlife protection in the world; Improved animal welfare in food production; EU-funded research and industrial collaboration;EU representation in international forums; Bloc EEA negotiation at the WTO; EU diplomatic efforts to uphold the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; European arrest warrant; Cross border policing to combat human trafficking, arms and drug smuggling; counter terrorism intelligence; European civil and military co-operation in post-conflict zones in Europe and Africa; Support for democracy and human rights across Europe and beyond; Investment across Europe contributing to better living standards and educational, social and cultural capital....
Posted by Donnachadh McCarthy Feb 2016
http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2151062/the_prostitute_state.html
http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2151062/the_prostitute_state.html
Do I want to stay in the EU? I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do
'A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four
Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came
near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way he
approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, they
fell a-quarrelling among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a
separate corner of the field. Then the Lion attacked them one by one and soon
made an end of all four.'
International Women's Day (ppffff)
three billion plus
one day of celebration
women's spring in wings
one day of celebration
women's spring in wings
Chrissie Hynde's memoir 'Reckless: My Life as a
Pretender' was published in 2015. https://www.bookdepository.com/Reckless-Chrissie-Hynde/9780385540612
Redressing some balance a bit - I came .across Soosan Firooz or Susan Feroz doing an interview on Channel 4 news a couple of weeks ago, she is a young Afghan woman, actress and rapper who has literally put herself in the line of fire, facing the fear of reprisals and using rap to speak out about the reality of life for Afghan women. It is annoying and a bit weird that I can't find the interview or anything posted after 2013. If anyone else comes across it please let me know and I'll add the link. BBC snippet 2012- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18361136https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soosan_Firooz
We are not natural political allies however this is
one politician I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for, Angela
Merkel, the Antidote to Adolf (pinched that from Mr Godard).
KEEP ON KEEPING ON ANGE
'You've Got A Friend', Carole King with the audience in the palm of her hand, pure schmaltz and fab.
