{"id":3982,"date":"2010-10-22T13:59:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2015-07-10T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T19:21:46","slug":"eh-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/eh-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Eh up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin is refreshingly balanced about the sad passing of Ari Up.<\/a><\/p>\n

48 is too young to die and as a lot of people have said in the last few days, her contribution was important and inspiring.<\/p>\n

\"Ari<\/a>

Ari Up at BASH, Plastic People, April 2006 – with Nicolette right, top.<\/p><\/div>\n

But… she was a bit annoying<\/em> when we saw her at BASH. Charging about and educating us about how things are done in Jamaica in a rather patronising way.<\/p>\n

Putting a positive spin on it, she was full of energy and a good counterfoil to the godlike Nicolette. And she certainly kept Kevin Martin on his toes whilst frenziedly demanding the next riddim. Which was quite funny.<\/p>\n

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I read Zoe Street-Howe’s “Typical Girls: The Story of The Slits”<\/a> a few months back and would thoroughly recommend it. What I liked best was the uncalculating nature of the group – yes they certainly wanted to wind the right people up, but musically they were fiercely open minded in a way that seems very of its time – very postpunk but not very 2010.<\/p>\n

In retrospect we probably could do with more people being annoying like Ari Up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martin is refreshingly balanced about the sad passing of Ari Up. 48 is too young to die and as a lot of people have said in the last few days, her contribution was important and inspiring. But… she was a bit annoying when we saw her at BASH. Charging about and educating us about how …<\/p>\n

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