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Brighton Festival: This is Afrobeat! – Tony Allen

By | May 15, 2010

At £20 per ticket, this event deserved a better sound system, but overhearing an earnest debate on who performed the original “Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads or Tom Jones? was worth the price of admission alone. Tony Allen of course played on neither version, but as Brian Eno pointed out in his introduction,

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This was Afrobeat!

By | May 14, 2010

I had the immense pleasure of seeing this man live tonight – Mr Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat and Fela Kuti’s former drummer. Although I arrived late to the show, the rhythms got me grooving immediately and the strains of the week fell off lik…

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Well and truly hung

By | May 7, 2010

Photo by secretlondon123Standing in my polling booth, the space where the white noise in my head that had been the huge quandry over who to vote for in Britain’s 2010 General Election finally dissipated and I was left with nothing but five boxes and a …

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