The Kitchen Cynics respect: C.O.B, ISB, Ivor Cutler, Roy Harper, Lal Waterson, Strawbs, Kevin Ayers, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, TVPs, Bridget St John, Kinks, Velvet Underground...
Fiona Keenan digested: Joni mitchell, ani difranco, kaki king, kelly joe phelps, erin mckeown, kila...
Caroline Kemp woke up beside: Janis Joplin, Vashti Bunyan, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Gillian Welch, Alasdair Roberts...
Welfare Mothers dream about: Johnny Cash, Jesus and Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, The Pixies, Beck...
Lorenzo Snow Collective do it for: Pizzas, cold crisp £50 notes, satellite dishes, teaching the world to sing...
Holy Folks hover beside: Neutral Milk Hotel,Ivor Cutler, Tom Waits, LACH, Major Matt Mason USA, Jeffery Lewis, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Johnny Cash, The Flaming lips...
Amber absolutely loves: Elliot Smith, Jose Gonzales, The Beatles, Joy Division, The Doves, Kings of Convenience, The Magic Numbers, Turin Brakes...
The Little Kicks wish to marry: Love, Interpol, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Muse, The Strokes, The Rapture, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Neil Young...
And speaking of Neil Young:-
Sounds Like
Raise the Alarm
MP3 Compilation CD is available for sale £4. To buy a copy, leave a message here or email startthepeace@hotmail.com
Track listing:-
1. Amber - Raise the Alarm
2. The Little Kicks - the Optimist
3. Welfare Mothers - the Orchard
4. Fiona Keenan - yesterday's dirt
5. Holy Folks - Seventeen
6. Lorenzo Snow Collective - the Horn
7. Pete McConville - Risen Early
8. Fiona Keenan & Caroline Kemp - do re mi
9. Nebyudelic Sound System
(with Jannes van der wal Appreciation Society) - More than a sketch
10. Kitchen Cynics - Songs of Spring (new version)
featuring soundbites from: George Bush II, Neil Young, Noam Chomsky,
Professor Jorge Hirsch, Rt. Hon. Tony Bliar MP, & Rose Gentle
We raised £300 for the Stop the War coalition! Thanks to everyone who played, and worked, and who came along last night.
To obtain a copy of the RAISE THE ALARM compilation CD (£4), email us at startthepeace@hotmail.com
We will be continuing to organise these benefit gigs over the summer and later in the year, to coincide with the massive demonstrations being planned for the labour party conference in september in Manchester. A lot of the money raised will go towards supporting the travel costs for any local people who want to participate in this national anti-war demonstration.
Keep checking out this myspace site to hear live recordings from the gig, which will be playing very soon. News about upcoming gigs will be posted here too.
We will be hosting a public stop the war meeting on the 15th June at Aberdeen University. Its open to all. We will be showing a movie called the Road to Guantanamo. We'll put the exact location up here in the next couple of days.
Some of Aberdeen's finest alt-country, folk and indie bands played unplugged on the 2nd June at the Kilau Coffee Shop, just off Belmont Street.
Click on the images to see and hear Amber and Lorenzo Snow Collective together at last on video
The Kilau benefit was in aid of the Stop the War Coalition , a national and independent UK organisation devoted to stopping the war in Iraq and to preventing further aggression against Iran. The £300 raised will allow the local Aberdeen Stop the War group to continue organising public meetings and to subsidise transport to national Scottish / UK anti-war demonstrations. Click here to contact the local stop the war group.
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