[matilda] Do they know it's G8 time?! (for Nick...)

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

I don't often spam the list with random music recommendations, so 
you may take this one time I'm doing it as a serious assurance of 
the high quality of the music involved. This is self described 
"revolutionary socialist" (one man) band Galaxia performing their 
reworking of a popular Christmas hit... If you were lucky enough, 
like some of us, to be at Earth First, you might have been treated 
to a live rendition. Several hundred times.

Seriously, check it out. It's inspiring.

http://www.galaxiamusic.org/g8-hi.mp3

And a few words from the lead singer on how this astonishing track 
was put together:

The initial line-up for my revolutionary socialist band Galaxia -
just myself on vocals and Adam from the Cutting Rooms recording 
studio
(Abraham Moss Centre, City College, Manchester) on acoustic guitar
accompanying me on two tracks - performed and recorded three tracks
("Do They Know It's G8 Time?", "The Revolution Starts Now!"
and "L'internaçionale") on Thursday the 30th of June. [I'd
like people playing other instruments and Adam does not want to be
involved with the band in the future anyway, so I will continue 
looking
for band members.]

I had had to go AWOL on the previous Monday from the psychiatric 
ward
on which I was a political prisoner, and the police recaptured me 
on
the Friday before I had a chance to put the tracks on the internet.
Despite escaping on the Saturday, I did not have access to my flat, 
so
I could not put the tracks on my website before the G8 summit.



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