In addition to the Song of the Moment segment I started last week I have decided to also add another ongoing category of posts, which for want of a better term, I will be calling Wicked Websites.
I was watching my favourite TV show last night (I don’t watch a lot of television but this one is a must for anyone who hasn’t seen it…) Spicks and Specks is a music quiz show on Australia’s ABC. Each week they have four guests – two for each team plus two team captains, who battle it out for the glory of having answered the most music trivia questions.
Last night they had Natalie Pa'apa'a on who is the lead singer of BlueKingBrown and she gave a short example of a song they are recording for their new album. The band started out busking on the streets of Byron Bay (not far from where I live) and are known for their very politically motivating music. Natalie explained that lyrics, regardless of the message within them, can never communicate or produce social change unless there is that initial reaction and identification with melody, rhythm or some other element of the music.
I have been scouring the ABC website to find a clip from last night but so far not much luck. However, a quick visit to Blue King Brown’s website site demonstrates a lot about the types of political issues they are interested in and often write about.
They have activism pages dedicated to the: Environment, Indigenous Affairs, NGO’s & Aid Work, Radical Laws Policies and Political Issues, Activism Through Art, Food & Produce, Indy Media, Fair Trade, So No to Nuclear Weapons, and In Our Region: East Timor.
I have loved their music for a long time and it forms some of the core music I refer to and use as a bench mark when considering my ‘scale of political music’ – it is most certainly up the end of ‘most political’.
Take a good look around their site, listen to some of their music (they have a few clips on YouTube which look to have been uploaded by the band) and as they say: Educate Yourself, Inform Your Networks, Act Now!
Further Reading:
ABC, Spicks and Specks: <http://www.abc.net.au/tv/spicksandspecks/default.htm> at 19 June 2008
BlueKingBrown: <http://www.bluekingbrown.com/index.html > at 19 June 2008
BlueKingBrownTV: <http://www.youtube.com/user/bluekingbrownTV> at 19 June 2008
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