22/07/2015

Manchild



Bristol - London connexion... Way back then.

Memories from my past, somewhere, somehow.


Great singer. Woman figure.


Man-child...







"Manchild"


OK, you're on your own, it's late
Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream
Turn around, ask yourself. So, you think you're gonna win this time Manchild?

Is it the pain of the drinking
Or the Sunday sinking feeling
The car never seems to work
When it's late your girlfriend's on a date
And the hero with her in your dream
In your sleep it seemed to like you
Turn around and ask yourself
Turn around ask yourself

Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in

Could you go undercover
And sell your brand new lover (could you)
Be someone else for a night
Maybe someone else will love you
You sell your soul for a tacky song
Like the one you hear on the radio
Turn around ask yourself
Turn around and ask yourself

Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild, Manchild, Manchild

From Monday down to Friday
You're working on another man's car
Or is it in the factory?
It doesn't matter where you are

Just turn around and ask yourself is this communication
Accentuate the positive and give some illustration
See Manchild, you're no one, you turn the microphone on
Control communication when I'm kickin' it and so on
To the point that I need, the air that I breathe
Into an audience that's waiting and ecstatic to receive
For the meantime another mean rhyme, I keep on sayin' it
I know what the time is the crowd will keep playing it
Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis
'Cause I believe in miracles and words in heavy doses.
Enough R-E-S-P-E and C-T
Respect yourself express no stress the mike is easy
Just believe that all you need is the air that you breathe.
Turn around ask yourself

Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild, Manchild, Manchild
He's the apple of your eye

Once bitten twice shy, why don't you bite me again
Just take it in the right and go tell your friend
Are you ready for the words I turn the microphone on
A figure of speech to reach you at the back and so on
The style I'm stimulating dance floors
Raise your body temperature now and
This demands for power in the amp you know louds my diagnosis
'Cause I believe in miracles and words in heavy doses


Ahead of WOMAD, presenting Lady Nade!


Lovely singer and powerful voice!

Lady Nade is from my darling place Bristol, and I'm following her to the best world music festival this coming weekend, WOMAD!


Listen here bellow!

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WOMAD says : http://womad.co.uk/lineup/lady-nade
Lady Nade comes to WOMAD on the back of recent sell out performances at the Bristol Folk House, Bath Chapel Arts and Green Note London. Her voice speaks of long-lost jazz clubs and has a poise that belies her age. Drum and bass legend Roni Size has praised Lady Nade as “another hidden treasure from Bristol” and Ian Matthews of Kasabian has described her as “unique, wonderful, deep and soulful with a voice which has the power to move you.”


Lady Nade

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Teaser:



'Peace & Calm':



'Complicated':



Listen to some bits of her Nina Simone challenge also:






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More soon.


"A Place Called Home"



England... Paris? Somewhere else...?

"Just hold on to me"...







"A Place Called Home"

One day
I know
We'll find
A place of hope
Just hold on to me
Just hold on to me
Walk tight
One line
You're wanted
This time
There's no-one to blame
Just hold on to me

And I'm right on time
And the birds keep singing
And you're right on line
And the bells keep ringing
come on my love
And the battle is won
And the planes keep winging
And I'm right on time
And the girl keeps singing

I walk
I wade
Through full lands
And lonely
I stumble
I stumble
With you
I wait
To be born
Again
With love comes the day
Just hold on to me

Now is the time to follow through, to read the signs
Now the message is sent, let's bring it to it's final end

One-day-I-know-there'll-be-a-place-for-us.



19/07/2015

3D at the V&A


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This screenprint is by 3-D, whose real name is Robert Del Naja, and who is better known for his role in the group Massive Attack. He also works as a visual artist, and has created record covers for his band, among others. This print references both religion and politics in its iconic imagery, using the European Union stars as a halo above the faceless character.


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Showed as part of the Street Art collection:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/exhibition/street-art/3126/



  • Object:
    Print
  • Place of origin:
    Uk (made)
  • Date:
    ca. 2004 (made)
  • Artist/Maker:
    3-D (artist)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Upright rectangle
  • Credit Line:
    Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund
  • Museum number:
    E.384-2005
  • Gallery location:
    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3, shelf H, box 28

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"Graffiti Art": 1985-2015



The Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol was celebrating today the 30 years of the first Street art exhibition to be organised in a gallery in the UK: "Graffiti Art".

A film by Phil Johnson showing the Wild Bunch's opening night was also shown all afternoon. Here are some insight into it:




Some of the graffiti created on the gallery walls for the 1985 exhibition:











The Wild Bunch's DJ Milo on turntables:



Milo and 3D:




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Happy anniversary to great artists who started great street art and even greater music in Bristol.


Cinema: "Dear White People" in Bristol this week




DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

Dir: Justin Simien, 2014, USA, 108 min, Cert 15
Mon 20th Jul | 8 p.m.
Tue 21st Jul | 8 p.m. (TTT) 
Tickets: £5 / £4 / £3 (TTT)

Picture for event










Trouble is brewing at prestigious Ivy League Winchester College, as the sole black-only fraternity is to be diversified. DJ Sam White must reassess where she belongs in an allegedly  ‘post-racial’ Obama nation. 
Tongue-in-cheek, inventive and provocative this razor-sharp satire weaves a universal story of forging your own path in the world. 
Director Justin Simien’s first film is "as brave and bold a début film as you can ask for" (Indiewire).
Winner of the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance Film Festival 2014.

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Link: http://www.cubecinema.com/programme/event/dear-white-people,8024/

Book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/boxoffice/select/eVQWGfBQPDtU






16/07/2015

Barack Obama travels to East Africa: Letter for Support to African Civil Society


From the Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Human Rights:


Letter to President Obama Calls for Support to African Civil Society during Upcoming visit to the Region

(July 14, 2015) Today, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, together with Front Line Defenders, Open Society Foundations, and the World Movement for Democracy, delivered a letter to President Barack Obama, welcoming his decision to once again visit the sub-Saharan Africa region. The letter highlighted particular human rights concerns in both Kenya and Ethiopia -- the two stops on the official visit -- and called on President Obama to meet publicly with pro-democracy and human rights activists from both countries. The letter received the full endorsement of more than 50 civil society organizations from around the world, as well as local human rights groups from across the African continent. 

“It is imperative for President Obama to show solidarity with the brave human rights activists, those who have literally put their lives on the line for the benefit of their countries, during his upcoming visit,” said Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. “At a time when the human rights situations in both Kenya and Ethiopia are worsening, the United States government must demonstrate that it stands on the side of the good and the just, signaling that respect for basic human dignity remains at the core of its foreign policy with all nations.” 

Several supporting organizations will co-host a human rights forum later this month in Nairobi that will coincide with President Obama’s visit to Kenya, including participation from prominent human rights defenders from the East and Horn of Africa region. The two-day event will seek to raise attention about the evident crackdown on civil society groups in the region, including issues related to shrinking civic space, repressive anti-NGO laws, and the declining respect for basic civil liberties.

“The United States has a vital role to play in helping to protect civic activists in Africa and across the world,” said Santiago A. Canton, Executive Director of RFK Partners for Human Rights. “Universally recognized human rights standards, which includes respecting the legitimacy of civil society actors, should inherently guide U.S. relations with Kenya and Ethiopia, as well as with the international community writ large.”


15/07/2015

Bristol hosts next weekend: the Upfest Festival 2015



Bedminster, here I come!


UPFEST2015

25 - 27 JulyUpfest 2015, Europe’s largest, free, street art & graffiti festival, attracting over 250 artists painting 28 venues throughout Bedminster & Southville, Bristol from 25th – 27th July. Talented artists travel from 25 countries and across the UK to paint live on 30,000sqft of surfaces in front of 25,000 visitors. The affordable art sale, music stages and art workshops round off a visually spectacular weekend!

The original and largest Upfest venue, Tobacco Factory, will feature multiple music and painting areas plus art sales, urban clothing & food market.

Travelling to Bristol? Meet your friends here, the perfect base to explore the festival from.



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http://www.upfest.co.uk/#promoted


Welcome to your festival! Upfest 2015, Europe’s largest, free, street art & graffiti festival, attracting over 250 artists painting 28 venues throughout Bedminster & Southville, Bristol from 25th – 27th July. Talented artists travel from 25 countries and across the UK to paint live on 30,000sqft of surfaces in front of 25,000 visitors. The affordable art sale, music stages and art workshops round off a visually spectacular weekend!

Festival Venues

Upfest is a as a multi-venue urban festival with the 1.3km stretch of North Street in Bedminster at it's centre, connecting venues and painting locations. The multi-venue urban setting has given the festival it's transient feel, with visitors encouraged to explore and find whats around the next corner.

Tobacco Factory

The original and largest Upfest venue, featuring multiple music and painting areas plus art sales, urban clothing & food market. The multi use building houses the Cafe Bar, Thali Cafe, creative industry work space, live/work loft apartments, animation and performing arts schools and one of the most exciting theatre venues in the country.

The Upfest Gallery

Upfest's year round permanent head quarters & gallery space, offering Bristol's largest range of spray paint and a customer framing service. Visit for festival information, festival exhibition and festival merchadise!

Upfest Gallery

Visit the gallery:
​Address
198 North Street
Bristol
BS3 1JF
Opening Hours
Monday Closed
​Tuesday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Sunday 10am-3pm



'Morning Theft'



Jeff Buckley - 'Morning Theft'. 




From the album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

 (1998)





Time takes care of the wound 
So I can believe 
You had so much to give 
You thought I couldn't see 

Gifts for boot heels to crush 
Promises deceived 
I had to send it away 
To bring us back again 

Your eyes and body brighten 
Silent waters, deep 
Your precious daughter in the
Other room, asleep 

A kiss "Goodnight" from every 
Stranger that I meet 
I had to send it away 
To bring us back again 

Morning theft 
Unpretender left 
Ungraceful 

True self is what 
Brought you here, to me 
A place where we can 
Accept this love 

Friendship battered down by 
Useless history 
Unexamined failure 

But what am I still to you 
Some thief who stole from you? 
Or, some fool drama queen 
Whose chances were few? 

That brings us to who we need 
A place where we can save 
A heart that beats as 
Both siphon and reservoir 

You're a woman, I'm a calf 
You're a window, I'm a knife 
We come together 
Making chance in the starlight 

Meet me tomorrow night 
Or any day you want 
I have no right to wonder 
Just how, or when 

You know the meaning fits 
There's no relief in this 
I miss my beautiful friend 

I have to send it away 
To bring her back again.



14/07/2015

"Love Is Ours"



love is ours

 by sinéad o'connor
written by o'connor, del naja, davidge
vocals by sinéad o'connor
(co-arranged and produced by del naja, davidge)
love is ours (demo) [4:45]
available on/ sinéad o'connor: 'she who dwells...'





your gentle love
is everything I dreamed of
since I  first heard of love
so long ago
so long ago
when there was only fear
and it still lives inside me here
like a bad friend I don't want near
who wears the scars
of the war between me and the stars
the mother and father of wars
look in my heart
my raging heart
the one that's still smashed all apart
my raging heart
is just like yours
but if the truth be told
it's time for all those things to get old
and time to let go
of pain, fear
and anything that don't keep happiness near
for love is ours
god knows we are in it with our hearts
will you love my heart
the one that's still smashed all apart
my raging heart
will you love my heart
like I love your heart
your tender gentle heart
your heart that's still so soft
let love be ours, ours, ours
let love be ours
my aching heart

my aching heart