14/08/2018

Stronger In



I'm a strong believer in this. I'm a French citizen, but I've spent a lot of time in the United Kingdom. I've lived here, I've worked here and I love this country and its people. I truly think they'd be better off in the European Union, on all levels. So I strongly support this initiative:



13 August 2018

After nearly two years ghting for the rights of UK citizens in the EU after Brexit and working closely with EU citizens in the UK (the3million), the coalition British in Europe has to accept that the rights of UK citizens in the EU will only be protected fully if the UK remains in the EU.

British in Europe was set up to protect all UK citizens who had exercised their rights as EU citizens to live and work in another EU country. Nearly 80% of us are working age or younger and Brexit threatens our livelihoods and the lives we have built up with our families through hard work in other countries. The majority of us had no vote in the referendum.
We are all Europeans, children of the European project. We are British Citizens who have exercised our EU citizenship rights, with the full support of successive British Governments across many years. We have seized all the opportunities that EU citizenship and the fundamental freedoms have given us.

Until now, we have not campaigned to stop Brexit but to defend citizens’ rights. We were promised by both sides that our lives would remain the same as before. But our requests for meetings with Theresa May, the Brexit Secretary and the Home Secretary have gone unanswered.

If Brexit goes ahead, rights will be removed from us whatever the outcome of the negotiations:
  1. At worst, in a no deal scenario, we lose all our rights, and our legal status, and must hope that an emergency deal can be put in place to apply third-country national status to us, which is in no way equivalent to being an EU citizen.
  2. At best, the deal on citizens’ rights in the draft Withdrawal Agreement would con rm many of our rights but only in the countries where we live now. Even then, we would lose key rights such as free movement, the right to move, work and live in any EU country other than where we live now, and face huge uncertainty about the rights of the youngest members of our group – children and young people – in particular their residency and citizenship rights. Plus the UK has failed to guarantee our right to return to the UK and bring our family members without being subject to strict UK immigration laws.
So we have no choice now but to accept that the best solution to protect our rights is to remain in the EU. That is why we now support a People’s Vote, and we demand that the government deliver on its 2015 and 2017 manifesto commitments to give us back our vote so that we can nally have a say about our own lives.

Why British in Europe has to come o the fence

www.BritishinEurope.org


10/08/2018

'Friends & Countrymen'



30 years!


The Wild Bunch ‎– Friends & Countrymen






Vinyl, 12", Promo, 1988
A: 'Friends And Countrymen' B1: 'Machine Gun (Down By Law)' B2: 'The Look Of Love'



Original members were Miles Johnson (DJ Milo), Nellee Hooper and Grant Marshall (Daddy G). Rappers Claude Williams (Willie Wee) and Robert Del Naja (3D) joined later, as did - peripherally - the younger Andrew Vowles (Mushroom).



09/08/2018

Live at UPark 2018, Kiev


Just this.

Massive Attack - 'Take It There' - live at UPark 2018, Kiev, Ukraine, 26.07.2018




Part of their summer 2018 tour.




08/08/2018

'Blue Lines' / "Blue Lines"


In the mood for...




Massive Attack - 'Blue Lines' - from Blue Lines (1991)





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Coming up next week:



APRIL 1991. MASSIVE ATTACK release BLUE LINES: 

The first masterpiece of what was only termed trip-hop much later, 'Blue Lines,' filtered American hip-hop through the lens of British club culture, a stylish, nocturnal sense of scene that encompassed music from rare groove to dub to dance.

For some members of this generation – music would never be the same again.
We are delighted to welcome to MELISSA CHEMAM from Paris, France to The CAT Club. Melissa is the author of the new biography of the band, ‘OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE’ (to be published before the end of the year).
The book is built around a long series of interviews with Robert Del Naja (known as 3D), other Massive Attack members as well as many other musicians and artists, who worked with Massive Attack or see them arise. These include Mark Stewart, Tricky, street artist Inkie, Neil Davidge, Sean Cook, and members of the bands Alpha and Portishead, among others.
Melissa is a French journalist and author who has worked for France 24, the BBC World Service and Radio France Internationale, as well as many magazines, and for the filmmaker Raoul Peck. Since 2003, she has been based in Prague, Paris, Miami, then in London, Nairobi and Bangui, travelling into more than 40 countries. And now she’s gonna be in Pontefract – can’t wait!
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More here: 



06/08/2018

Massive Attack 2018 summer tour



Massive Attack published this statement today on their Instagram account, regarding their summer tour in this year 2018:





Firstly, a huge thank-you to everyone who came out to see us this summer.

We’d like to explain the two cancelled shows this summer.

Our guitarist Angelo was taken into hospital seriously ill whilst traveling to Les Argeles. We had no choice but to cancel the show. Luckily, our friend Alex was available to help out on guitar. 


We hastily booked a rehearsal space in Valencia to get Alex up to speed so we could continue the tour and be ready for Mad Cool Festival. We got to Madrid confident and excited for the show. 

To our total disappointment - as we prepared to go on in the specially arranged tent, the main stage kicked in with 98db registering on our meter. This was even before we put our In Ear Monitor systems in and turned on our mics for the first song. That level was now amplified much louder in our ears. It’s like trying to listen to two radio stations at full volume simultaneously. And trying to work out which bit is you. 

We always want to attempt to deliver a good show and this would’ve made it impossible for us to do that. To walk away from all of those people in that tent was not easy. It was horrible and we felt like shit. Especially when we couldn’t communicate the situation with you all. It was the worst end to a crap week.

Yours truly, 
Robert and Grant.



02/08/2018

"I will make you hurt"


Song of the day:

Trent Reznor - 'Hurt' (Unplugged)







Album: "The Downward Spiral" 
by Nine Inch Nails 
(1994) 


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Lyrics:



"Hurt"


I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way


August 2: Happy birthday James Baldwin



Remembering James Baldwin
 Born on August 2, 1924. Writers live forever... Thanks for everything, Jimmy.


From Velvet Film: 

The great James Baldwin (James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin, August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) would have been 94 on this day.

We are all very grateful for his sharp mind, marvellous writing and extraordinary, inspiring life of struggles and just causes...




"I Am Not Your Negro" - Official Trailer







In his new film, director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. "One of the best movies you are likely to see this year." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times http://www.IAmNotYourNegroFilm.com


01/08/2018

'Kong' - Neneh Cherry


New song from a legend:


Neneh Cherry - 'Kong'






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Message from the artist:



Neneh Cherry

So excited to finally share my new single 'Kong' with you ❤️❤️❤️  https://NenehCherry.lnk.to/kongFa
Directed by the inspiring & divinely talented
JENN NKIRU
Kong is an attempt at putting to words the ever growing disaster that is the displaced people of this world. The lyrics are trying to be personal and remembering the things that are easy to forget: the ordinary everyday lives, everyday loves, family, home left behind in deep pain trying to save life. Looking at the maps of Europe and the great West with all its promise of possibility....the lands that created all the misery in first place...
Love and thanks to Four Tet & 3D (Massive Attack. .) Wolfgang Tillmans + Smalltown Supersound

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Published on 1 Aug 2018


'Kong' is out now. Listen here: https://NenehCherry.lnk.to/kongYD Produced by Four Tet + 3D (Massive Attack)
Video directed by Jenn Nkiru


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Lyrics: love forsaken risk worth taking spearmint flavours all my pallet shutters i’m a member of shattered allusions & am i needless to say but love is big & every land every nation seeks its friends in France & Italy & all across the 7 seas & Goddam guns & guts & history & bitter love still put a put a hole in me bite my head off still my World will always be a little risk worth taking bite my hand off still my World will always be another risk worth taking gotta step out a limb swallow my pride surrender & not give myself away little measures all the time become part of you nothing new still have full for absolutions in my day there’s no solutions & love is big & every land every nation seeks its friends in France & Italy & all across the 7 seas & Goddam guns & guts & history & bitter love still put a put a hole in me bite my head off still my World will always be a little risk worth taking bite my hand off still my World will always be another risk worth taking


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Neneh Cherry Live http://bit.ly/NenehCherryLive 14/08 Berlin 06/09 Stockholm 12/09 London 26/09 Paris Follow Neneh Cherry: Instagram: https://NenehCherry.lnk.to/InstagramYD Facebook: https://NenehCherry.lnk.to/FacebookYD Twitter: https://NenehCherry.lnk.to/TwitterYD  


27/07/2018

'The Great Beyond'


A song for the Lunar Eclipse this 27th of July 2018....


R.E.M. - 'The Great Beyond' (Official Music Video)






"The Great Beyond" by R.E.M., as heard in film "Man on the Moon" Available on "In Time: The Best of R.E.M. (1988-2003)" Buy the album: https://rem.lnk.to/InTimeBestOf To learn more, visit http://www.remhq.com


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Lyrics:

I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes
All the sights that I have seen
I can't believe that I believed I wished
That you could see
There's a new planet in the solar system
There is nothing up my sleeve

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punch lines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

In all this talk of time
Talk is fine
But I don't want to stay around
Why can't we pantomime, just close our eyes
And sleep sweet dreams
Me and you with wings on our feet

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punch lines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears
Sweetest dreams of you
I Look into the stars
I Look into the moon

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punch lines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great
Answers from the great, answers

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great
Answers from the great, answers

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond


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The Great Beyond

Songwriters: Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe
The Great Beyond lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group





'United Snakes'


Now available on the band's YouTube channel:


Massive Attack - 'United Snakes'





Music video by Massive Attack performing United Snakes. © 2006 Virgin Records Ltd.


Published on 26 Jul 2018


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PS. Always thought David Bowie might have had a look at this when working on the visuals for Black Star...