Lets Give The Bankers A Spanking

•February 5, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Those poor RBS bankers. They find it so hard to motivate themselves, they need a massive bonus to get themselves up in the morning.

Imagine a nurse coming in late to work with the words ” you know I just cant be arsed unless I get a massive bonus” while leaving patients stranded and fending for themselves.

Billy Bragg is having another go this Sunday at Speakers corner to motivate the crowd and put pressure on the Government to limit the RBS to a mere £25,000.

Sly and Reggie and the Middle Class Sound System will be there, with Sly on the mic.

New track Lets Give The Bankers A Spanking on Last.fm

10:23 Homeopathy Campaign Mass Overdose

•January 30, 2010 • Leave a Comment

The 10:23 Homeopathy  ”there’s nothing in it” campaign had its mass overdose protest day today.

Sly and Reggie were there outside the Conway Hall in Red Lion Sq to serenade the skeptics as they swallowed a massive number of homeopathic remedies in one big gulp.

Our biggest result of the day was getting support from the traffic warden parking guy who let us park up without needing a permit. He said we were ‘for the people’ and that made our day.

Simon Singh was there as well as Dave Gorman and media galore taking interviews.

I dont think Sly and Reggie were needed amongst the throng but hey..it was sunny. Had a great drive home through Soho and over a bright and sunny Westminster Bridge.

Lyrics

Its 10;23 and I’m feeling sleepy

 There’s poetry in the memory of water

And I lose myself amongst atoms and space

My excessive dilution brings me absolution

Its 10:23 amd im feeling sleepy

 There’s nothing in it, I know but poetry and water

And I try to be so rational and good

But deep in the lanes the poetry remains

Its 1023 and im feeling sleepy

 SLEEP

 I get lost in one part of a million million

Seduced by the memory of water

But i gotta say no to my lovely placebo

Its 1023 and im feeling sleepy

I’m A Photographer Not A Terrorist

•January 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

This great photo taken at the Photographers Not Terrorists mass gathering at the weekend by Sean Mclean.
Huge turnout and great atmosphere as hundreds of snappers snapped away, mostly at each other.
This campaign to show the police that a proper balance must be struck between civil liberties and police powers.

Also met the street campaign photographer David Hoffman. 

David has a talk coming up at the Frontline Club

It’s 10:23 And I’m Feeling Sleepy

•January 21, 2010 • 3 Comments

The skeptics are having a pop at Boots for selling homeopathic remedies that contain more suggestion than actual active ingredients.
The 1023 campaign is planning a mass overdosing of homeopathic sleeping pills by skeptics next Saturday.
Here is Sly and Reggie joining the campaign with the hypnotic ‘Its 10:23 And I’m Feeling Sleepy”

“Priceless”: New Track From Sly And Reggie, Download Now

•January 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment

File Sharing?

The artist’s right to give

Not the people’s right to take

We all believe in the value of creativity.

But what is the value of artist expression on the internet?

There is no doubt that it enriches all our lives with a wealth of sounds,

flowing through the digital landscape.

But at what price?

Priceless is the new track from Sly and Reggie that seeks to question the nature

of the relationship that exists between artists and their audience on line.

Download now from this download site by clicking here

The Suburban Pirate is a middle class sound system, 

producing genteel protest music in a dub reggae style

Save Our Gordon

•January 7, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Guido Fawkes  the political blogger has started an ironic campaign called Save Our Gordon on Facebook.

His premise is that saving Gordon Brown as leader would mean a larger defeat for Labour in the forthcoming election.

Maybe so but do you really feel like voting Camerion…really?

We have our own campaign track called ‘Stay Gordon Stay‘..no irony just  sadness.

Secret Ballot For Gordon Brown Leadership?

•January 6, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon are asking for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown and the Labour leadership.

Patricia Hewitt on Radio 4 today made me choke on my noodles when she tried to sell the ballot as a way of confirming Gordon Brown’s leadership! Yeah right. With friend like Geoff Hoon who needs enemies.

Apparently stirring up a leadership kerfuffle is a good way to get Gordon Brown in a stronger position to fight the Tories, only Tony Blair followers could attempt such double speak bullshit.

So lets all sing along to the Sly and Reggie track ‘Stay Gordon Stay‘ recorded for just this sort of occasion.

Hear ‘Stay Gordon Stay’ here  on last.fm

Newsnight forced to climbdown over Trafigura

•December 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Newsnight have had to eat dirt…toxic dirt over the Trafigura case. Because the 30,000 Ivorians  who sued Trafigura got paid out before the issue of deaths was established in court it meant that Newsnight would have to win that argument in court….a very expensive libel action indeed. So its cheaper to backdown despite widespread evidence to the contrary.

Libel Laws need reforming…to get to the truth more easily.

Change the libel laws a campaigning track by Sly and Reggie

Beat the ban on Newsnight’s Trafigura broadcast

•December 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Carter Ruck seems to have got Newsnight to pull their piece on the toxic waste scandal.

But its still on Youtube even if pulled from the BBC.

Beat the ban by putting the youtube video on your blog

Newsnight Trafigura article disappears from web

•December 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Not a good day.

Looks like Carter Ruck have managed to get the excellent piece made by Newsnight on the Trafigura case to get withdrawn from the web.

Do your bit by doing this.

All the more reason for the libel reform campaign, launched this week, to get things changed.

New track from Sly and Reggie ‘Change the libel laws‘ can be heard on the last.fm