There comes a point in life where you realise you don’t have that much time left, so you have to make the most of every moment and put some good back into the world, says musician Dan Chiorboli.
He’s explaining why the album he’s just released with an eclectic bunch of fellow artists features a surprising and unusual range of songs. Indeed,
Radio Ubuntu by The Solidarity Express features lyrics about climate change, migration, overpopulation, the unsustainable use of resources, xenophobia and the quest for racial harmony. In a country where hashtags like #PutSouthAfricansFirst spread hate on social media, it’s certainly calling out popular sentiment.
Ian Dury
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Wake Up And Make Love With Me
Sweet Gene Vincent
What A Waste!
There Ain t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
Inbetweenies
Common As Muck
That s Not All
Release Date: 4/28/1992 (5 out of 5 stars) Aw, now this just isn t fair, Ian Dury dying. Here s one guy from the new wave days who was provocative, but in the way that British music hall bawdy ditties or Benny Hill were provocative. Naughty, but with a lot of humor and heart. This compilation only scratches the surface ( Dance Of The Crackpots and Spasticus Autisticus are two songs that really should ve been included), but you get everything else that made Dury great, including Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Billerickie Dickie, Superman s Big Sister and -what else? - Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll, a major anthem of the past century. Ta, mate, you ll be missed!
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Album: Raf Rundell - O.M. Days
Deeper, stranger and more personal visions from the alt-pop journeyman
by Joe MuggsThursday, 08 April 2021
The career of Raf Rundell has had one of the most satisfying trajectories of any in UK music – a steady process of self-realisation, from record label staff via DJing and artist management, through being a serial studio collaborator, to becoming a fully fledged artist in his own right.
The career of Raf Rundell has had one of the most satisfying trajectories of any in UK music – a steady process of self-realisation, from record label staff via DJing and artist management, through being a serial studio collaborator, to becoming a fully fledged artist in his own right. For a musician to only now, in his late 40s, be releasing his second full album might seem odd, but there’s something very natural about the way it’s all happen
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Keyboardist Chas Jankel was a member of Ian Dury & the Blockheads during the British funk/new wave band s commercial peak (the late 70s). First hooking up with Dury as part of the pub group Kilburn & the High Roads in the early part of the 70s, Jankel was asked by Dury to join his new outfit, and appeared on such Blockheads releases as 1977 s New Boots & Panties!! (which spawned Dury s best-known hit, Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll ) and 1979 s Do It Yourself, before leaving the group. But in 1981, Jankel teamed up once more with Dury (sans the Blockheads) for the release Lord .