With all the attention going to the untimely death of Robin Cook, its easy to overlook the news that Ibrahim Ferrer has also died. Both lives are stories of unfulfilled potential in a way. With Robin Cook there is the knowledge that he could have achieved so much more had things happened differently so that […]
Entries Tagged as 'World music'
More bad news
August 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on More bad news · Life, Music, Politics
Tags: Heroes·World music
Asian Music
August 5th, 2005 · Comments Off on Asian Music · Life, Music
While I was on a late night mercy-mission drive to the all-night supermarket to pick up some painkillers for the Mrs I was listening to the Bobby Friction & Nihal show on Radio 1 (one of the replacements for John Peel) and got to thinking about Asian music. In Crawley we have about 10% of […]
Tags: Racism·Radio·World music
Not long now…
July 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Not long now… · Music
In just a few hours we will be up at Hyde Park. We have just been planning our route and decided that walking from Victoria is probably the best option. We will aim to get there early enough that we can walk up Park Lane and see the Pride march coming the other way. (Note […]
Tags: Africa·Concerts·Live 8·London·World music
Manic Saturday
June 26th, 2005 · Comments Off on Manic Saturday · Life, Music
To paraphrase Van Morrison: whatever happened to Saturday and so slow? It used to be that Saturdays would be a long stretch of idleness, starting with a student-scale lie-in, and with a long afternoon nap closley following. This is a reastion to a week of getting up at 6 for work. Today was rather eventful, […]
Tags: Family·Religion·TV·World music
The French
June 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off on The French · Music
I don’t think I shall ever understand the French – and not just because I didn’t pay enough attention when studying for O levels. I was watching a concert last night on the France 2 channel (courtesy of TV5 Europe on Sky Digital) – it is referred to in this blog. I think the concert […]
Tags: Concerts·Language·TV·World music
Meltdown Photos
June 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on Meltdown Photos · Music
Spizz has some photos he took on Friday night on his website here and here. This is a nice one of Rachid Taha and Mick Jones together backstage: And this one of MIck Jones on stage with Carbon/Silicon is too good to be true. If he really managed to take this on a little digital […]
Tags: Concerts·Photos·Spizzenergi·World music
Meltdown
June 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Meltdown · Music
I went out tonight after work, to see one of the shows in this year’s Meltdown festival at the Royal festival Hall which is conveniently located so close to where I work that I could see it clearly if a) Waterloo Station was not in the way b) We had any windows This year’s Meltdown […]
Tags: BYCC·Concerts·London·Spizzenergi·TV·World music
New sounds
June 10th, 2005 · Comments Off on New sounds · Music
I got a parcel from Amazon today with a load of goodies to keep me occupied. First of all there is a CD by Amadou and Mariam called Dimanche a Bamako. They are a couple of Malian singers, who have collaborated with Manu Chao for their new album. I first heard about it on Councillor […]
Tags: DVD·iRiver·Kraftwerk·Shopping·World music
Live 8 whitewash?
June 2nd, 2005 · Comments Off on Live 8 whitewash? · Music, Politics
There is an article in today’s Guardian about the forthcoming “Live 8” concerts. Apparently Bob Geldof has been accused of being “deeply patronising” by leaving African musicians out of the shows. It is true that the line-ups of all the shows is predominantly white and almost entirely from G8-type nations. Even the Italian, French and […]
Tags: Live 8·Racism·World music
World music at the Hawth
May 27th, 2005 · Comments Off on World music at the Hawth · Music
On Sunday June 5th the Doudou Cissoko Trio will be playing at the Hawth theatre. I probably won’t go because I saw him play a month or so back at the Royal Festival Hall for free, and don’t really feel the need to spend eight and a half quid seeing him again so soon. Having […]
Tags: Concerts·Hawth·World music
