It’s CD swap time at the Contrast Podcast – if you go here you can listen to the first part of the exercise. I get to go first and last this time – my job was to put together a CD themed in some way around the letter ‘A’ and wing it on its way to Greer at A Sweet Unrest for her to choose from and then to be blessed with a Zombie party from Chris at Culture Bully which I could choose from to round off next week’s Part 2.
I made an Artists Against Apartheid CD, drawing heavily on the posts about their (and our) day out in London back in the summer of 1986 which you can find somewhere there down the page. I thought I’d add a couple of tracks to that on here, one from the CD I made for Greer and one extra one, both from the album ‘Not Just Mandela’ which I’ll revisit over the next week or so with some other bits and pieces (although it’s interesting that a big part of the line up, Billy Bragg, The Neurotics, Atilla the Stockbroker, make this feel a bit like a companion album to Wake Up!) (what do you mean, what’s Wake Up!?)
And those men who scorned us when we asked why it was absolutely necessary to invade Iraq and Afghanistan were sat in power in the Reagan’s White House in the 1980s perfectly happy with apartheid and their friends the South African white government.
The Internationalists – Every Fifth Man Is Guilty mp3
The Neurotics (with Billy Bragg) – Africa mp3
(The reports of Michael Jackson’s death arrived half way through writing this. I have extremely ambivalent feelings about him. I’m very sorry for the loss of the wonderful performer he once was, but I’ve been sorry about that for years).
