'Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but to skid in sideways, beer in one hand, cigarette in the other, shouting - fuck, what a ride!'
Involved in Stop the War (www.stopwar.org.uk), the
Campaign Against Climate Change (www.campaigncc.org)etc, and generally building the movement.
'Indifference is the dead weight of history...a swamp that defends the old order far better than any warriors or strong defences.'
(Antonio Gramsci, Italian revolutionary socialist)
...Other than that drinking, dancing about in fields, flowers, playing my flute and other west country-like faery frollicking, lol.
Music
Folk rock, gaelic, traditional Irish/English & other random stuff thrown in... Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Cat Stevens, Donovan, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, John Martyn, The Levellers, Christy Moore, Mad Dog Mcrea, Fairport Convention, Demon Barbers, Damien Rice, Steelye Span, Cara Dillon, The Belfast Busker, Pearl Jam, Tracy Chapman, Metallica, Clannad, Joni Mitchell, Julie Fowlis, The Kinks, Lindisfarne, Turin Brakes, The Beatles.
Movies
Paradise Now, Children of Men, La Haine, Battle of Algiers, The Revolution will not be televised, The Battle of Chile...
Lord of the Rings, Big Fish, Walk the Line, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead...
Television
Books
Shikasta, News from Nowhere, Lord of the Rings (of course)... The Communist Manifesto
About me: Environmental Science student at Plymouth uni...like drinking good ale, dancing about to Irish music with the faeries (if enough ale/guinness has been drunkered you can see them), being by the sea...oh yeah and trying to change the world a bit in the process :)
We live in a world where profit comes before people, and where more money is pumped into wars than into welfare. Neo-liberalism has created a system where big oil and coal corporations virtually run the U.S government alongside the neo-cons, guiding an imperialist foreign policy which is attempting to gain control over scarce resources and dominate the middle east, whilst fuelling climate change and fucking up the environment.
Not only are millions dying from war in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan, millions more are dying in wars in Africa funded and supplied by the Western governments to maintain instability and access to resources. Cures for diseases are held back from the world's poorest nations to protect the copyrights of multinational pharmaceutical companies. And by doing nothing about climate change the big companies and Western governments are effectively condemning millions more of the world's poor to suffering and death, including in the U.S where Bush left thousands of those who could not afford to evacuate stranded in the ruins of New Orleans.
But the neo-liberal governments have a powerful enemy. The other super power of the world. The mass of ordinary people. We are many and they are few. They might control the wealth, but we produce it. The bosses need the workers, but we don't need them. And in the words of Tony Cliff: 'if we all spit together, we can drown the bastards!'
hello love. Will be coming to the May Day thingy. I'm off to Peru on 16 May back in the UK on the 11 June. I love yr profile pic it looks like the sun is shining especially on you both.
"Hail to yer alison" ‘Just come across your link pic again out there in cyber space so clicked on to say how yer doing. Hope you had a hair raising Halloween. And good bonfire party’s. Keep on Keeping on the wild side. Peace and love to yer from Devon’s most fiery raucous and hairy rocking folk band The Dambuskers. A legend in their own lunch time. Keep Music Live -
Hail to yer Its good to be hooked up on myspace with you. Thank you for your Message. Drop us a comment and stay in touch. Cheers for befriending Devon’UKs most fiery raucous and hairy rocking folk band The Dambuskers. A legend in their own lunch time. Keep Music Live!!!. -
All's good for the 8th Nov :) If you want any other band/artist suggestions to play the night, let me know. Yeah, the Nowhere can have that effect - I've got it down to the bare minimum these days! xx
hi sorry for the impersonal nature of these kind of comments but i'm tryin to get back to everyone to let them know that our album's out now and that u can get it at... www.roadrecs.com
CLICK HERE TO BUY OUR DEBUT CD!
the opening track,'sorrow',is on the player now if u get a chance drop by and give it a listen!
Hey, that sounds great! Would it be ok to do a full band show? We're a three piece now and it sounds great. I'll check with the others about the date and let you know asap. :)
This 'ere band live in the little village I grew up in in North Devon: http://www.myspace.com/thedambuskers They're great; will take you to see them sometime...