The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98483   Message #1955574
Posted By: Ruth Archer
02-Feb-07 - 09:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Roots (Show of Hands)
Subject: RE: 'Roots' by Show of Hands
Stigweard, I'm not exhorting everyone to go out and start a revolution. You play. You're taking part in the tradition. Ace.

The point is that Lizzie bangs on about Britain's social ills, not least among them young people growing up not knowing their own culture, and produces a SoH song as the solution to the whole lot. When interrogated about how the song is supposed to make a difference, she explains that SoH inspire people to get out and do something about these social problems. I'm simply trying to find out whether this is true, and wanted to know what it is that they have inspired Lizzie to go out and do. The answer, as I suspected, is nothing, excpet write thousands of words of repetitive drivel on the internet.

As Billy Bragg said, Wearing badges is not enough.