The Windmill presents: SUNDAY BARNDANCE & BBQ feat COUNTRY DIRT – 17.00 22nd May 2011 –
Cheyne Pride + Suzette & The Neon Angels (USA) + The Jolenes + Jenny Cash & The Sons Of Sue + Country Dirt + Kathleen Haskard
Sunday 22 May @ The Windmill, London
COUNTRY DIRT – “Think Flying Burrito Brothers with their dirty sister.”
London’s hottest new country music band. Country Dirt features Marianne Hyatt (Dragstripper) on vocals, Patmo Sheeran (Big Self, Stone Rangers) on BIG guitar and vocals, Bob Staunch on boogie-woogie-bass, George Blacklock on acoustic guitar and mandolin and Frank Brown on the 5 string banjo and harmonica.
Suzette & The Neon Angels (USA)
From London to Lubbock, from Berlin to Austin, Suzette and the Neon Angels are continually building upon their rabid underground following, with their blistering versions of rockabilly and Bakersfield standards, along with Suzette’s sock-it-to-’em originals.
Cheyne Pride
Born in Florida and raised in New England, Cheyne Pride has done a lot of things from having a #2 hit in the USA with the dance single Mr telephone to touring the world as a backing vocalist for The Pogues.
More recently she’s been fronting her own super hot country band, featuring on guitar Martin belmont hwo has played with Johnny Cash and all the country greats!
The Jolenes
London’s favourite all-girl bluegrass band. With harmonies & hairdos evoking a bygone era of vintage glamour and forbidden foundation garments, the Jolenes rustle up a down-home blend of spicy bluegrass and sweet old-time country, with a dash of red hot rockabilly thrown in for good measure.
Jenny Cash & The Sons Of Sue
A railroad song with a stompin beat or a slow song kinda smooth and sweet or something that’ll knock you offa your feet
Kathleen Haskard
A 4th generation native Californian who divides her time between the rooftops of Southeast London and a MoHo in a canyon on the Pacific coast in the Santa Monica Mountains above Ventura County Line………. SINGER, SONGWRITER, political activist and all round task force, Kathleen`s is a sussed and culturally aware musician who passionately believes in the HEALING power of music, people power and that the PERSONAL is most definitely political.
Filed under general | Comments Off on The Windmill presents: SUNDAY BARNDANCE & BBQ feat COUNTRY DIRT – 17.00 22nd May 2011 –INFIDELPHIA – Ode to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Safe from hellfire, free to follow desire
Don’t wanna live my mama’s life
Bade my goodbye to her stiff back
Beat my wings 2 the sky
Scratched out my own education
In a ready-made home on a rubbish heap
Today’s my new birthday
I’m ‘onna fly away free
Words forbidden to express
Sprouted wings & flew from her holy mouth
Into the new wilderness,
“I draw a line in the sand
Set apart from this clan
Here I stand
I am Hirsi Ali Ayaan”
Two lips speak with one tongue
Beggared by invasion
All stitched up
Forever young
But up comes her new form
Barkin right back at the screen
Reminds her how far she’s come
And where she’s been
Words forbidden to express
Sprouted wings & flew from her holy mouth
Into the new wilderness,
“I draw a line in the sand
I am not of this clan
Here I stand
I am Hirsi Ali Ayaan
O Father… is it sacriledge
In my daydreams I borrow from privilege
If you love me, don’t you want me there
With the sun on my skin, the wind in my hair?
Swear I’ll be careful
Gonna unwrap my fear
Walk tall as the stars
To songs of the spheres
Theres a price for the promise
I made in my youth
But as Allah’s my witness:
I will not back down from the truth
Blind faith in her inferiority
Go on I dare ya, open the gate
See how the caged bird retreats
Rattle my cage with the turn of the page
With all the sex & drugs on the street
Nothin to talk about but the will of the soul
And my sisters’ free speech
Secularised or apostate
Well what’s it take to stop the gendercide,”
Say’s Ms Infidel incarnate
“I draw a line in the sand
Step up & over this clan
Here I stand
I am Hirsi Ali Ayaan”
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