Former landscape architect and president of Avant Gardening and Landscaping, Liza Lightfoot, established a charity organisation, Kidlinks Small Farm Incubator (KSFI) in 2004 which was initially motivated by the affect of HIV/Aids on children in SA and then expanded into grooming young farmers in the Eastern Cape.
Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
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New Age Steppers were the reggae/post-reggae/post-punk/avant-garde collective helmed by Adrian Sherwood. The band included many contributors including Ari Up of The Slits, Style Scott, Eskimo Fox, Keith Levene of Public Image Limited (and early The Clash), Bruce Smith of The Slits and The Pop Group, Neneh Cherry, George Oban of African Head Charge and Aswad, Sean Oliver, Mark Stewart of The Pop Group, and many others. On March 19, Sherwood s On-U label will re-release the band s entire catalogue as separate vinyl records and as a 5xCD set. As part of the re-issue, On-U will also release the new