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

[dan at aktivix.org]

*Is* Martine McCutcheon a vital part of the revolution?  It could be true.

Maybe she's like Gollum: a key player in a way that nobody can predict, right up
until the last moment.  Could be.

Er.

Quoting Joe Morris <malatesta_uk at hotmail.com>:

> Gav...This is the guy who got naked at the G8 and who, while you were laying
> 
> in your tent at Earth First, heard me exlaim to: "Steve...you appear to be 
> naked" and who then proceeded to tell me how Martine McCutheon was a vital 
> part of the revolution...
> 
> This is the crazy guy..the naked, crazy guy...why on earth do we want him 
> coming to Matilda...???
> 
> joe
> 
> =====================
> 
> "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination"
> - Oscar Wilde
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: <gavin at cyber-rights.net>
> To: <matilda at lists.aktivix.org>, <againstthewar at totalserve.co.uk>
> Subject: [matilda] Do they know it's G8 time?! (for Nick...)
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:02:52 -0700
> 
> 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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> 
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