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series of concerts: larger than live aid, to focus minds on climate change

Calvin says:

Interesting story, just out in the FT. Climate Change Concerts.

Apparently Al Gore is about to launch a series of concerts, that will 'dwarf Live Aid'.
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On Vox: music and the end of an era

42 - not just The Answer but also the age of Top Of The Pops - and tonight we've just watched the last one. This show was so much part of my life when I was younger - it started when I was eighteen - though I have to admit that, in later years, there were some styles of music that I didn't like at all. Well, that's to be expected.

» Read more on Vox

oh, sublime

My head is filled with sublime music.

We have just arrived home from a marvellous production of The Marriage of Figaro at the wonderful Theatre Royal. Unplanned meetings with friends, then out into the summer night and lights of Grey Street - voted the best street in Britain

lives in the balance - jackson browne sings against war

Here is Jackson Browne's anti-war song:

There are lives in the balance
People under fire
Children at the cannons
There is blood on the wire....

http://videos.digett.net/jacksonbrowne/lives/lives_in_the_balance.wmv

music and visions of peace

From   "one people": Music and visions of peace 2006 - a series of 11 events
designed to promote peace and unity, between the people's of Israel and
Palestine. These events are healthy events (non smoking) in peoples houses
and communities in and around Brighton.

bush war blues

Billy Bragg has updated Leadbelly's 'The Bourgeois Blues' and remade it into "The Bush War Blues' , which is available as a free mp3 download
 
Link (Thanks, John!) via Cory of BoingBoing

It's tough doing nothing for two weeks - but I can cope.....

We liked it so much last year and the year before that - so we're off again tomorrow to Hara's in Kephalonia. This will be our sixth time on the island. Swimming, lying in the shade, lots of reading, eating wonderful vegetarian Greek food - and this year, listening to all the new music Simon set up for me on my iPod, with the great speakers that he gave me for my birthday.

Sharing a name - almost

So - there's a group called Lotus In The Mudd
Here's their blogsite too. Drop in (remember your wellies) and say 'Hi'.

Hope your project goes well over there!

Is there harmony in the community?

European community, that is.

If you want a laugh listen to an mp3 found on the weblog of a
Slovenian writer Michael Manske who has just won a weblog
award: http://www.carniola.org/

He writes: "To celebrate Slovenia ratifying the EU constitution
yesterday, I dug up an old mp3 from last May. It features
Austrian and Slovenian brass bands performing the European
anthem together at the border. The European anthem, if you
don't know, is an extract from Beethoven's 9th symphony, and
was officially adopted by the EU in 1985. The occasion of this
performance was Slovenia's entry into the European Union on May
1, 2004."

To listen to the mp3:
http://users.triera.net/manskmic/himna.mp3
(1.4 MB  Right click, save as...)

Some important reminders:

1) Yes, they're adults.
2) Yes, the audience could probably file suit against the
governments of Austria and Slovenia for violating the Geneva
Conventions on torture.
3) Yes, they'd probably win that lawsuit.

Sent to me by Jenny

Tributes pour in for Peel

I reiterate Simon's sentiments.

Saturday mornings will have a hole in them - it was always a delight to listen to Home Truths.