RC 221: Stuff the Jubilee

[fingertrouble]

New podcast about the upcoming Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics...very much in the spirit of 1977, but with new songs, covers, mashups and more. Over here or at Mixcloud:

Radio Clash 221: Stuff the Jubilee by Fingertrouble on Mixcloud

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[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

Oh. I'm giving that a listen today and through the weekend.
On my last post the final line "We love our Queen" was written thinking of Rotten singing it that certain way in 'God Save the Queen'.
On of the reasons punk was so important to me was that it gave me a framework at 17 (well, the Pistols did in this instance) to recognise I wasn't the only one who thought it was all bollocks. The establishment monolith and the weight of history. More than three decades later and somewhat mellowed I still ponder the odd relationship the British have with their history. I am grateful we have it, the more so when I see the US in meltdown and no prior narrative other than religion and chest beating to sustain them...and I am also resentful for having to have grown up with so much of it placing demands on my and others expected behaviour.
Just one fucking thing after another.
That ambivalence was at the heart of punk. It was very British. The US version, apart from the Ramones, was all wanky would be poets or skag heads. It had to come from a small country that had once 'ruled the world'. Reading Burroughs at 13 had started my queer politicisation, showing me it wasn't all Larry Grayson. The Pistols and the Bromley contingent crawling out from the city and the suburbs felt like an inevitable and welcome extension. My politicisation would then continue through punk with '77 as the moment the magnifying glass focussed the light and started the fire.

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

Annoyingly, having lost my wallet and having to cancel my cards, I can't grab one of Debden's (bloke who does all the punk repros) new 'Fuck the Jubilee' t shirts.
I do have an original '77 one. Fucked up, sleeveless and dyed a sickly pink.
Maybe I should wear that and get some sun on my fat, fluoro white arms.
Get 'em all lobster pink.
Very british.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

Ooh where can I get those?

And yes that would be very British, LOL.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

What I found interesting is even when the Beeb went digging with old punks they all still felt pretty much the same way about the Queen - age hasn't changed them, unlike some of the stars - although again most of the them didn't cosy up to her either.

I think it had to change, and the current openness of the Monarchy and Diana and her kids etc. was a direct result of the low point of the 70s - which being a kid I only dimly remember power cuts etc. But I can see a lot of similarities - the cuts, useless government, youth unemployment, the rolling back of the optimism of a previous time.

It's still shit having a Monarchy and I'd rather they wasn't there....don't mind having a figurehead if we must, but the rest? Nope. Prefer it to be elected. My vote would be for John Cooper Clarke ;-)

Funny hearing John about the 1978 Rock Against Racism Carnival, he links it directly with the Stuff the Jubilee campaign and God Save the Queen, that it continued that process - sounds like quite a few people got politicised at that time for various reasons.

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

Listening to it right now and the volume keeps going up. The Ghost Town dub is magic. This is the soundtrack to the weekend and, I suspect, the summer. You did it again.
Though I 'll try not to call all shitfaced to compliment you...

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it...yes I tried to make a soundtrack for the strangeness of this summer, for all the people who won't be part of all this craziness...glad I succeeded with one person ;-)