Music is the most personal form of socialisation that people can give themselves. The thoughts our music provokes within us, form the very people we are, the conversations we have, the friends we make and the paths we walk. Strong communication amongst a network of likeminded individuals opens up a world of possibilities for all those tapped in. And it’s time for the new wave here in Newcastle. The REAL sound of Newcastle!
Sharing the stage with as diverse a range of artists as you can is the best way to build a profile and spread your message. Playing with heaps of different people will not only see the community strengthen as everyone gets to know one another and attract each others fan base, it will see the entire communities musicianship move to another level as Newcastle’s wealthy gene pool evolves together. The REAL sound of Newcastle!
Take advantage of the 6° of separation. Organisation is needed in order for any communication network to strengthen, for your fanbase to grow, which leads to bigger shows.
If you don’t start talking amongst one another now you wont ever be able to talk about anything. Now think about this for a moment -
Imagine a world where the words to your favourite songs were never written! Imagine a world where John Lennon had never sung a word!
It’s easy if you try…
It was the things Lennon did and said, the ideologies he stood for, and the words he sung, that helped to bring about the revolution of change in his era, and indeed ours. It is because of men like him that we can now sing and say what is on our minds. It is to such ‘in-tune’ songwriters as Lennon that we must turn to, in times of universal deceit, for it is such great oracles as him that the truth resides.
In an interview with Volume Streetpress in October 05, Ben Lee gave me a rather insightful summation as to the powers of pop music. It’s the “sugar that makes the medicine go down. How many great political, social and spiritual statements have been made, that we wouldn’t even have begun to of digested if they hadn’t been sung to a pretty melody?” The Times Are A Changing, you know, those things are important! I more and more want to embrace that method of communication with the world and I am getting more and more optimistic about the chances of infusing that with something of real substance. So that it’s not just a song to sing along to on the radio, it’s a song that can change the world.”
Lyrics are still nearly always at the centre of censorship scandals. Artists have only relatively recently been able to express their freethinking ideals so graphically. There are still plenty of cases where monkey wrench releases don’t even reach the record store shelves. They, being those in control of our daily lives, would prefer to replace our headphones with ears muffs, in order to distort opposing opinions, especially those that contradict the official fiction.
In old London town, a small group of people hold a weekly tea party on the grass of Parliament Square, with some members of the party garnering blank placards. “The non-demo demo, or tea party, is a legalistic response to a law, which says that, “no one may demonstrate within a kilometre of Parliament Square, if they have not first acquired written permission from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. If anything is written on the placards, or if someone makes a speech, then he or she is immediately deemed to be in breach of the law and is arrested”(2).
This silent protest takes place under the watchful eye of Winston Churchill’s statue, a man whose words resonate now more than ever. “If you will not fight for the right,” he once growled, “when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves”(2).
Sing like a bird, for the world is your stage.
Peace
Wicksy
Footnotes
1 - Pilger, John. (2002:2) The New Rulers of the World. Verso, London
2 - Porter, Henry. (29/6/06) Blair Laid Bare: the article that may get you arrested. Online source - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1129827.ece
3- PTI (12/7/06) Mumbai blasts an attack on democratic way of life: Aus PM Online source - http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=23949&n_tit=World+Stands+with+India+against+%22Despicable%22+Terror+Blasts+
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