reading: Just for you, London

John Barker – Reader Flattery: Iain Sinclair and the Colonisation of East London

Ben – Dalston Revisited – Report on the protest at Gillett ‘square’ today

Hackney Independent – Winter 06/07 newsletter

Bryan Magee – Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood (Pimlico, 2004)

Unwaged fightback – A history of Islington Action Group of the Unwaged – 1980-86

Greengalloway: Crass/ Conway Hall/ Statement/ KYPP 1 – especially this. Also all the recent posts about punks vs anarchists vs situationists.

Transpontine – a great series of posts covering everything from Jamie Reid in Croydon, Test Dept, Band of Holy Joy, etc.

Plan B magazine

planb-17

Current issue features “A Secret History of UK Dancehall” by Melissa Bradshaw. Including a link to this very blog, which is nice.

https://archive.org/details/planb-magazine-17

If you have ended up here because of that link, you may wish to check out:

Born to Chat: The Asher Senator story – John Eden tells the tale of this seminal London MC

The Papa Levi Story, Parts One, Two and Three – John Eden looks back at the vinyl releases of this seminal cockney chat MC.

Why you are WRONG about Maxi Priest – a reappraisal by John Eden

London Acid City: When the Two 8s Clash – John Eden on the impact of acid house on the london dancehall scene

Charlie “Eskimo” Fox – the stalwart On-U Sound and Creation Rebel drummer talks to Greg Whitfield in this extensive interview

Interview with THE BUG – John Eden speaks to Kevin Martin about “Pressure”, dancehall, dub, experimental music and the points in between

Interview with ADRIAN SHERWOOD – Greg Whitfield gets the low-down on the history of the legendary On-U Sound

ABA-SHANTI interview – Greg Whitfield talks to the legendary London soundsystem

NME Soundsystem Splashdown article from 1981 – featuring FATMAN HI-FI, SIR COXSONE OUTERNATIONAL and JAH SHAKA. Plus some great photos and comment.

Interview with Franco Rosso, director of the film BABYLON (plus details of the soundtrack, comments from Jah Shaka and Yabby You on the film and much more)

You may also want to download:

Lyric Maker: From England Not Jamaica mix by John Eden and Paul Meme.

Fast Chat Special mix by John Eden and Paul Meme for Breaking Ranks on Resonance FM

Heatwave’s England Story mix for Blogariddims

Thanks to Dubversion for the tip-off.

Happy new year!

Blogariddims 12 / Office Party Mix

 

A festive session featuring divas, teenagers, ice queens and those in between

1. “Everything I have is gone”
2. “Trying not to pose”
3. “Perhaps if I held you”
4. “The pleasures of night”
5. “It didn’t matter that he was tame”
6. “It penetrates your brain”
7. “A place to stay”
8. “I never get enough”
9. “Conversation is interrogation”
10. “You’re like a big expensive drug trip”
11. “She looked down on me”
12. “He’s not evil”
13. “Now you’re going to get a beating”
14. “Sleazy brown dirty macs”
15. “Leave your job and have some kids”
16. “Yes we do”
17. “Scorched and dieing”
18. “Never had a friend or wanted one”
19. “A criminal on the take”

How to get it

http://www.weareie.com/audio/blogariddims/Blogariddims.xml
is the link. Here is an idiot’s guide of what to do with it

You can also get it direct from http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogariddims/ or via itunes music store.

You really should subscribe – all the previous mixes rate amongst the highlights of my year. I’m slightly reticent about lowering the tone with this one, but only slightly 😉

 

What’s it all about?

Blogariddims doesn’t have an office, which is just as well – given the people involved I doubt that much work would ever get done. That doesn’t mean we can’t have an office party, though, does it?

Crack open your chosen festive tipple and blast this out whilst wearing your most ill-fitting suit. For my part I created the correct atmosphere by chugging down a pint of mulled wine before even touching the turntables. So, swing your arms in the air… think about who you will try to catch under the miseltoe… scan in your arse. Despite my state of inebriation, I take full responsibility for the music here – this time of year is not the point to get obscure and credible.

Bonus blogariddims festive competition

Blogariddims being what it is, some of you may be less extrovert than others. Never mind lurking in the corner, we have a special ice-breaking party game for you lot. Being attentive to detail, you will have already noticed there is no tracklisting for this mix. Instead, each track is flagged up by a short quote from its lyrics.

Your mission, spotters, is to identify as many tracks as you can and then email the name of the artists and tunes to me by midnight on the 17th of January 2007. Use the [eden at uncarved dot org] email address with the subject line “blogariddims festive competition”.

The person who gets the most artists and/or titles correct will be sent a CD of my “Best of 2006” mix, which will not appear online anywhere, and will only be burnt to 23 CDs. The full tracklist of the Office Party Mix will appear here on this blog on the 18th of January.

BASH – interview

Interview with Kevin Martin about BASH, from Metro (free newspaper for London commuters).

Martin BTI’s review is here.

The highlight for me was definitely hearing the new Bug tunes, especially “Angry” by Tippa and one that kicked off with Ras B giving some shout outs.

Broader than Broadway

DVDs of the films ‘The Battle for Broadway Market’ by Emily James and ‘5 ½ roofs’ by Sepp Brudermann are available now.

The proceeds will all go towards paying Spirit’s rent arrears for December and January?

The DVDs are available @ £10 each, or £ 15 for the pair, if you buy direct from Spirit’s shop in Broadway Market, Hackney.

To order copies by post, please send cheques (payable to L. G. Grant) to:- The Spirit of Broadway Market, 71 Broadway Market, London E8 4PH

£11 for ‘The Battle of Broadway Market – including P&P
£11 for ‘5 ½ roofs’ – including P&P
£17 for both DVDs – including P&P

both films are quality productions. ‘5 1/2 roofs’ is a film about squatting and features the b’way mkt occupation in the final section.
‘the battle for b’way mkt’ is the definitive record of the occupation and campaign. essential purchase for those who wish to be inspired by what local people can achieve when confronted by gentrification and corrupt local authorities. ..

BASH, Thursday 30th November

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Last month’s BASH witnessed Kode 9 and Space Ape rock the night with their ‘memories of the future’ launch. Additionally, Warrior Queen got lowdown ‘n’ dirty on Loefah’s set and Roger Robinson swung in to drop exclusive King Midas Sound cuts with The Bug. And this month looks like it’ll continue the tradition of Plastic People ghettoblastin’, as ex Anti-Pop Consortium MC/Producer High Priest hits the home of Bass, to launch his first solo album on Sound Ink(‘Born Identity’). Having had to pull out last time ’round Roots Manuva/Banana Klan mic man Ricky Ranking will be guestin’ with The Bug and Loefah is certain to bring the rukkus..Come get Bashed..

Thursday 30th November(And the last Thursday of every month)

BASH
At Plastic People.
(Presented by The Bug & Loefah)
147-149 Curtain Rd., London. EC2

Policy :
Bashment, Dub, Ragga, Hip Hop, Baile Funk, Roots, Dubstep, Lovers,…

10-2AM
£5
Policy : Bashment, Dub, Ragga, Rockers, Roots, Dubstep, Lovers,

reading

I would like to write a great deal about all of these but it just isn’t possible right now:

Situationists (pretty) vacant 

anon – Jumbled Notes: A Critical Hidden History of King Mob
Fred Vermorel – Vivienne Westwood: Fashion, Perversity, and the Sixties Laid Bare (Bloomsbury, 1996)
Jean-Michel Mension, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator) – The Tribe: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time (Verso, 2002)

80s anarcho nostalgia 

George Berger – Crass: The Biography (Omnibus, 2006)
Ian Bone – Bash The Rich: The True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK (Tangent, 2006)
Greengalloway – Centro Iberico (1+2+3), Anarka and Poppy, Nuclear Socketts
Bash Street Kids – Nostalgia in the UK

JA to UK clash

David Katz – Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae
Brian Belle Fortune – All Crews: Journeys Through Jungle / Drum and Bass Culture

Home pages

Stewart Home – Bubonic Plagiarism (Sabotage Editions, 2006)
Stewart Home – Amputee Sex (Sabotage Editions, 2006)
Stewart Home – London Art Tripping: A Psychogeograpical Excursion Taking In Two Generations And Fifty Years

And…

Simon Reynolds – Society of the Spectral (in The Wire)
Deeptime
Boomnoise

Sat 25th: ‘Save the Spirit of Broadway Market’ Late night benefit film screening

5 1/2 ROOFS (15)
UK 2006, director Sepp R Brudermann, 84m

According to Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 the occupation of empty property in the UK is not illegal. In London there are more than 13.000 people living in squats. These are 6 episodes of 6 different London based squats and their inhabitants. 6 stories of life in the city, stories of struggle, celebration, creativity, resignation, fear and hope. The final episode concerns the struggles and occupations in Broadway Market, Hackney.

“A compelling look at a layer of our urban community which is rarely seen” (Raindance Film Festival)

“Fresh and beguiling” (R. Thompson, BBC Storyville)

+ speakers

Rio Cinema, Kingsland High Street, London E8
11.15pm, Saturday November 25

Tickets £6.50/£5 Concs (available in advance or on the door)
http://www.riocinema.ndirect.co.uk/2006/Oct06/specialcreenings.htm

Background information:

A campaign has been running in Broadway Market, London E8 for the past twelve months in support of two particular leaseholders who operated businesses in Broadway Market and who were tenants of Hackney Council until the properties were sold to offshore property developers in 2001/2.

These cases are also linked to an on-going campaign to protect buildings in Dalston Lane, London E8. The issues surrounding these cases gained worldwide press and media coverage last Christmas and New Year and led to an investigation by the Fraud Squad and the L. B. Hackney Audit and Anti-Fraud Division, culminating in an internal enquiry before the L. B. Hackney Governance and Resources Scrutiny Committee in March/April this year.

The findings of that report go before Hackney’s Mayor and Cabinet on 27 November. The enquiries came about as a result of the widely publicised occupation of Francesca’s cafe at 34 Broadway Market and publicity relating to Lowell ‘Spirit’ Grant who runs a Caribbean fresh fish, fruit and veg shop at 71 Broadway Market.

Spirit is still facing eviction, although a significant campaign has been launched to clear outstanding rent arrears whilst the Courts determine his legal status. There is to be a hearing at the Court of Appeal on 5 or 6 December 2006 and his lawyers are increasingly optimistic.

http://34broadwaymarket.omweb.org/modules/wakka/HomePage