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Going hard on that hobby horse one more time. This is a kinda online salon format where it's more of an interactive chat. Please come along if this sort of intersection of body/mind/psychotherapy and revolution interests you...

A London giant and complete institution. Changed and defined the musical landscape.

Can't think of another way to do this beyond the chronological, so we'll stick to i until I get bored. It's weird, I'd shown some sympathy towards the Devil's music (heavy metal) at about 10 or so, but never went further than watching it on Saturday morning TV. Luckily rap came along exactly...

Anyone think of anything good referencing/titled after pounds/ps/pence/shillings? Must be some but Im stumped

Anyone listened to this yet? Thoughts? I really like it, yet have a weird ambivalence. On one hand - the plus side - it's just fucking good, clever, thoughtful rhymes that are deeply London but reference the immigrant experience. Even the gash love song that's on every rap album is actually...

Inspired by this atrocity. I'm doing this thread on Facebook as well and have found maybe one song. What is out there?

The recent UK rap thread got me thinking - are there any long form (LP/album/mixtape) UK rap, road or drill things that really work all the way through? Can't think of much off the top of my head. "Patriot Games", some of the Soul Food mixtapes, Boy in Da Corner. What else is there? Sure I'm...

So who's a sufferer? Me obviously, thus the thread at 6.30. I've had it for pretty much all of this lockdown and it's gone completely hatstand in the last week or two, where I've literally been up all night. It's a product of not having the work routine in the way we're used to. Upsides - have...

Me @john eden & @padraig (u.s.) were having a discussion about this recently but I can't remember on which thread. I found this an illuminating thread. - Will stick it here, and see if anyone - including me - has anything interesting to say about it. It strikes me that when "the Left" has...

Divination in general is referred to as "telling the future". It's often, most usually done via a symbolic intermediary like Tarot cards. It's normally not so much about the future as about the present but can bring surprising new patterns and information to light. I am learning a new method...

Just finished and enjoyed this article on the the use of chants by the protesters in Lebanon. It contains some links through to Youtube footage of the chants in situ which are pretty joyful to witness. There doesn't seem to be a thread on these protests so far. and I don't really have much of a...

Shit, always enjoyed his work. Been an inspiring figure since way back.

Closed Circuits/Chris is a friend of mine who relocated to Portugal a few years ago. I'm a big fan of his music which has been described as "like Leonard Cohen being bothered by Coil". His vocals remind me a bit of Scott Walker. It's that weird situation where one of your mates makes music and...

What contemporary music is there that seems to question and contest the nationalism that's caught up in things like Brexit? Drill seems to be austerity music to me in a sense, in that's it's paranoid, inward turning, angry, masked up. But what is there that seems to celebrate the non Brexit...

I found myself reading Colin Ward's Talking Schools this week, after not reading him for some years. He was an anarchist who was fundamentally concerned with the built environment. He was responsible for editing Freedom magazine, the anarchist fortnightly published out of Freedom Books in...

How many of you use the library on a regular basis? I love mine. My gf got me back into it, and I've not bought a book for ages as a consequence. I absolutely love it and they clearly do serve as something of a community hub. I overheard a meeting last week taking place between some kind of...

Any faves or not bothered/would rather improvise, cooking with the Dinner of the Day thread open in one hand, pulling shit out the fridge with the other? I like cookbooks 'cos I just like reading about food. I have a tiny collection, largely from looking in charity shops as a a consolation...

Looks inevitable now, set to be ruining Xmas. Any predictions?

Where would you go if you wanted to rave it up a bit?

Peter Jones is a friend of mine who I met while writing my undergraduate dissertation on Wilhelm Reich, over 20 years ago now. He has been a one man Reichian publishing house for most of that time, publishing two books and about 40 small booklets on various permutations of Reich's work including...