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Thread #125417   Message #2778291
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
02-Dec-09 - 06:03 AM
Thread Name: Songs from the 84-85 miners strike
Subject: RE: Songs from the 84-85 miners strike
And again, correcting the HTML!

I wrote a song whilst a member of Rhombus of Dooom at the time which was inspired by a tea-chest outside a whole-food store in Jesmond - an affluent / studenty suburb of Newcastle. This chest was for food donations for the families of the striking miners - and it was full of tofu, brown rice and organic herbal tea!

I feel the same sense of nausea towards the likes of Ewan MacColl who elected themselves as the Voice of the People in a time of real human suffering. Re: What Did You Do in the Strike, Daddy? - my thread title What Did You Do in the War, Ewan? is a reflection of this. Would that life could ever be so simple...