Welcome to this months blog and as readers will know by now I am linking to the theme of our radio shows in order to add the radio player, in the hope of getting a few more people hooked on the shows. This month has been a rather odd one at CC. I was going to tell you a ridiculous allegory filled tale of one particular incident that really got my back up, but I have kind of let it go now, and we have so much good news to share. You do not need to know about mutiny led by and Elf to defend her Gnomes in a land full of money grabbing Goblins. So here is the anarchy show, special thanks to Steve White & The Protest Family for a fantastic music interview. A wee project update can be found below.
So October has been a pretty tough month I do not mind saying, like our politician friends I have had to put in some tough austerity measures here at Camden Calling, and it has been a bit of a test perhaps of the members commitment to the project. Every penny has pretty much had to go in to the bank to try and make sure we have funds to continue in 2012, making some provision for the fact that some funding applications we are waiting on may not come to fruition. We have suffered a couple of setbacks, namely me putting quite a bit of time and effort into the Sunday Sale event that was subsequently ruined by said Goblin. It left us in a bit of a pickle but largely an annoyance because of the time that had been put into it. The event will be relaunching in January somewhere where we can create a lovely chilled Sunday afternoon vibe, and where it will not cost you, the good folks that support Camden Calling, the best part of four quid for a can of warm beer. We will be moving to the wonderful Good Ship in Kilburn , one of the first venues to embrace the Camden Calling project and we cannot wait.
Our Urban Beatfare night is going to be taking up monthly residency at The Enterprise come 2012 and members are busy working away on a bit of re-packaging and re-branding. Our Eclectic Anarchy night will be moving around London in 2012 but will be a FREE GIG for the duration, supported by some of the best friends that Camden Calling has made since our birth.
The Locked In Transit music video project is going really very well indeed, Kilburn High Road and Violent Dreams have been shot and we are getting ready for Stealth Tax Time. This is Richards first track and he is now in rehearsals getting a full set together for live performance. This is something really quite different and fulfills an idea we had at the start of the year to get some of the groups poetry on to the CC stage in some way. Martin another of the groups poets will also be recording his poem Drowning for the video project. This is pretty great news given we have had to suspend a lot of the poetry group work due to financial constraints.
The Camden Calling documentary will be screened ahead of it being shown on the BBC on the 21st November, if anyone following this blog would like to attend please email me for a seat as they are limited. Our Patron Peter Guinness will also be speaking at this event, and we are really planning this to be a bit of a call to arms for all of those that support us. There may be those of you with skills or ideas that we can use of the coming months that may make all the difference to the future of our project. If you have Sky or Virgin TV you can also catch Dekay's Guide to Estates on the 1st November at 9pm.
So we plug on, tweaking the project here and there, supporting one another and working together for we hope a greater good, sharing our skills & plugging the gaps, ocassionally we have some dispute or other to settle and sometimes I have to pull rank. We do have some rules! But largely we are a group of people just getting on with it, trying to change our own, our colleagues and those that come into contact with us lives for the better. We try to support projects and people who like us are on the margins and have to shout to be heard. Below is a music video made by our friends Heavy Load [a truly anarchic band] featuring Dekay, this song was to highlight hate crime against disabled people.
Those of you that have listened to the radio show will hear Steve White say in his music interview that the status quo exists because the belief in human nature is basically all wrong. I agree, Goblins you are and always have been wrong, Elves watch out most of you are getting Goblin faces and Gnomes, you don't have to be Gnomes, like the Camden Callers you just have to believe there is more to life, and if you need help find it. The status quo sucks because it does not encourage any of us to make the most of our lives. So I will leave you with a video of Steve White & The Protest Family, collaborating with Camden Calling member Rukas on a special version of what has become an anthem here at CC. Believe me if you guys had been on the bill I might have been tempted not to pull that gig.
Those of you that have listened to the radio show will hear Steve White say in his music interview that the status quo exists because the belief in human nature is basically all wrong. I agree, Goblins you are and always have been wrong, Elves watch out most of you are getting Goblin faces and Gnomes, you don't have to be Gnomes, like the Camden Callers you just have to believe there is more to life, and if you need help find it. The status quo sucks because it does not encourage any of us to make the most of our lives. So I will leave you with a video of Steve White & The Protest Family, collaborating with Camden Calling member Rukas on a special version of what has become an anthem here at CC. Believe me if you guys had been on the bill I might have been tempted not to pull that gig.
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