1968 event, Friday 13th/with added authentic audio
June 15, 2008
Long Hot Summer Party : A Night of 1968 Inspiration
Philosophy Football proudly presents The Long Hot Summer Party – A Night of 1968 Inspiration. Organised in association with Red Pepper magazine and supported by the Fire Brigades Union. 1968, a year of protest and revolt. Join us for a night to celebrate and inspire.FRIDAY 13 JUNE. Featuring Clash sidekick, Mescaleros member and 1968 Squatters movement activist Tymon Dogg,’ Rocking the Barricades DJ set from Scratchy, 1968 Poetry veteran Adrian Mitchell joined by the best of today’s performance poetry scene, Polar Bear. Red Pepper editor Hilary Wainwright, writers Lynne Segal and Sheila Rowbotham, critic Mike Marqusee and Guardian journalist John Harris, art from San Francisco’s Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company. The party is at Offside Bar, 271 City Road, London EC1, starts 7pm.
This is all I can manage for now: a couple of rock songs (blue text for download mp4 files), and artwork from the event.
I have two hours of audio, but I spent literally hours last night vainly trying to upload it as a single file.
So I’ll try and rerecord it as smaller files: and here’s a bit of audience banter, 20080618-143045 reminiscences by Sheila Rowbotham 18_06_2008-16_41 a comment by Hilary Wainwright 20080618-165412 a rousing speech by Lynne Segal 20080619-012548 verse from shadow poet laureate Adrian Mitchell 20080619-093253 and a bit of situationism and comment on Revolution and the Society of the Spectacle in the light of Coldplay’s latest album (below) 20080619-104002 from John Harris.
