Say no more, mate, say no more

(via Mona, buy them here)

gREAT lEAP fORWARD - the alter ego of aLAN bROWN former member of Hulme heroes bIG fLAME

Bankia; six lungs for you and not even a pair of gills for me: Flamenco bank protest: Seville 17 May 2012

Political positioning…..although rarely articulated through the song form or lyrics, is almost always present in the bodies of flamenco artists-the  notion of the body being not literal but referring rather to the singer in a social context, to the “doing” as opposed to the “thinking” of music.

Bithell (1997) Review of Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular Culture by William Washabaugh

Rosa la Dinamitara (aka Rosario Sánchez Mora)

Explosives expert, revolutionary postal worker and cigarette seller

(via Nick Lloyd)

Vast amounts of musical goodness by someone who seems to know what they’re talking about. I think these fall into the category ‘get ‘em while the getting’s good’!

suicidewatch:

Amazing downloadable compilations of Los Angeles based punk, post punk, new wave, diy, power pop, weirdo nonsense, underground rock n roll from 1977-1987 with great/informative “liner notes” of each post. Rhino records should give this blogger a job. These mixes are fucking great.

Bloomsday Homesick Blues

I shall miss my kidney breakfast and, if the weather be fair, the cycle down to Sandycove to stand at Joyce’s Tower above the Forty Foot.

I shall miss the toffs in period clothes and puzzled Dubs a-wondering why an exiled, godless heathen should evoke such fuss.

I shall miss my night town ramble from Kennedy’s on Westland Row, to Davy Byrne’s and then to Temple Bar.

I shall miss my drink with the King of Spain’s daughter or someone claiming to be such, while he, above in Capel St, outstays his welcome in Jack Nealons.

I know it’s a bit early for Bloomsday, but I came across the photo and was overwhelmed by an t-uaigneas and nostalgia for Dublin bay on a sunny day.

(Picture by Gerry McDonnell, words by yours truly)

Reports of my survival may be exaggerated

Cerys Matthews reads Alan Jenkin’s moving poetic tribute to Marie Colvin who was killed by an IED during the siege of Homs in February.  (via @markthomasinfo)

Ethnic Cleansing - UK Style

The Olympic spirit of diversity and participation clearly doesn’t extend to the West Country as the torch passed through on its way to London for start of the London 2012 Olympics. 

Yesterday police even removed the Cornish flag from the hands of the Andrew Ball the last torch-bearer as he passed through Saltash on the way to foreign parts

(via an Helghyer).

Traditionally, Rock and Roll was a way for poor white boys to escape the trap of poverty, poor education and low paid manual labour, but not in this case it would seem….

placeofeasydeath:

I’ve been looking for an aquistic for years…i’m guessing that book wasn’t much use…

Marina Ginestá, Miliciana and member of the Communist Youth, taken in July 1936 at the penthouse of the Hotel Colón in Barcelona. Marina now in her 90s is apparently still alive and lives Paris

(via Mona)