Unauthorised item in the bagging area

Friday 2 June 2017

Inglan


I've been listening to a lot of spoken word and poetry stuff recently and burned a cd that worked well- the intro to Misty In Roots' Live at Eurovision, John Cooper Clarke's Twat, yesterday's Steve Cobby and Russ Litten track, Joe Gideon and The Shark's Civilisation, Allen Ginsberg/Tom Waits' America/Closing Time, a Joe Strummer and Jack Kerouac ghost duet track, Weatherall's remixes of Mike Garry's St Anthony and BP Fallon and David Holmes' Henry McCullough plus The Deep Hum (At The Heart Of It All) that he did with Michael Smith, a few other things on similar lines. And some Linton Kwesi Johnson dub poetry. Dub and poetry go together very well indeed, like chips and mayonnaise, like punk and speed. This one, Inglan Is A Bitch from 1980's Bass Culture album, is full of righteous anger at the way Jamaican immigrants were treated in Inglan. The man himself said that 'writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon'.

Inglan Is A Bitch

9 comments:

The Swede said...

Sounds like a tasty cd SA.

Dirk said...

Indeed it does: why not put it up here? Or on soundcloud .... ?

londonlee said...

Got any Pam Ayres?

The Swede said...

I second Dirk's emotion.

The Beard said...

Chips and mayonnaise?! You wretch! Chips should not been tainted with mayonnaise. Never. Ever. Never ever.

Swiss Adam said...

Putting it up on soundcloud would require some technical stuff. Will have a look at it.

Chips and mayo are the business The Beard.

JC said...

chips and mayo? fuck right off.....do you think you're Belgian or something??

Not heard this LKJ track in decades. Cheers!

Dirk said...

Mayo and chips go perfect together! Also I hope this CD includes something by Ted Chippington!

Michael Doherty said...

Chips and mayo all the way!!! Would love to hear that CD too.