Chess Smith, a singer-songwriter based in Kent, began her career working with local bands in London and the southeast. Her talent, strong work ethic and infectious personality soon brought her to the attention of international songwriter and producer Ben Copland. Ben mentored Chess, shaping her as the voice of electronica outfit ‘Mooli’ and wrote, produced […]
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Husky Tones
Husky Tones’ punk blues style favours the common rawness, simplicity and emotion shared between the punk and blues genres. Live it is delivered by the unique set up of a female drummer singer Victoria Bourne and guitarist Chris Harper. Their approach to music styles mirrors what they love as audience members: inventive, individual and fully […]
Max Newland
Max Newland is not a professional writer, speaker, scholar, or columnist. Max is a cashier at a local food Co-Op and lives in Washington, USA (The west coast one with the mountains) with his wife and cat, Cassie and Lydia respectively. After training in acting and theatre for six years in his early adult life, […]
“FAKE NEWS” -propaganda churned by the Bernays school, owns your mind
‘Member WMDs? I remember. “Fake News” — it’s Propaganda, but not from Russia Fake news is everywhere now, so everybody must have an idea. I am developing on the fact that fake news isn’t just an honest crusade against hoaxes, but a deliberate and dangerous attempt at censorship. Things you hear like fake news, conspiracy theories, Corbyn unelectable, […]
NEOLIBERALISM’S TOTALITARIAN COMING OUT IN WINTER HEIST ON ALL OUR FREEDOMS
It’s from the frying pan into the fire for me, from the former Gulag, with this hi-tech neoliberal dictatorship. This fall has seen very depressive news on the topic of freedom and surveillance: Snoopers Charter and the Digital Economy Bill to control our internet lives in an indiscriminate totalitarian grasp; and censorship paved by fake […]
Nuremberg
The sky is low and grey and wet today. I walk as fast as my middle aged legs will take me towards the warmth of the overcrowded train, meeting no-one’s eye from the moment I leave my warm, tidy flat. Last night I watched TV as I do every night. It doesn’t entertain me. I […]
Mayhem in England
If you were to glance at the front pages today, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bit of a slow news day in England, dominated as they are by stories about the class action suit against VW and the shocking story that we might experience some snow this January. To glance at the […]
SKZ Cartoons
In the wake of the Brexit vote and Trump’s election victory, SKZ considered the question: “If you can’t laugh, what can you do?” and was disappointed to find that most of the options included actual effort: so he started to write cartoons instead. This turned out to be less difficult than he thought, because of […]
John McHarg Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Hey, Gringo! Fiction A Statement from the BBC Finders Keepers The Door and the Handle Poetry So What, If Check out John’s Ungagged Art
Hey Gringo! You’re in trouble now!
San Felipe, Baja California 1998. I didn’t want to go, this was a fairly common reaction when Gary suggested going anywhere. Through frequent bad judgement being anywhere with Gary was a bad idea and as was to prove more than accurate, this time was no different. “Let’s go down to San Felipe” This was Thursday, […]