Thank you for pointing our attention
to the KCRW interview. Great stuff !
I saw Sarah Jones perform in Copenhagen last Saturday.
What an experience !
I have never attended a slam event before and went
solely to support her act and hopefully get a chance to
hear Your revolution.
It would be the cherry on top of a really
great saturday afternoon in Copenhagen, where
it so happened that four streetparties where
held simoultanesly in the heart of the city.
Mermaidparade - the gay community´s parade.
Kunstart - Art and music in a park
Nansensgade - Streetparty
Pisserende - Streetparty, outdoor shops, barbecue.
In between these four parties an open doubledecker
partybus cruised around with joyfull, happy people
accompanied to the deliscious latin, brokenbeat, housy
beats of Mikkel Flyverbom and - yes - Dj Wax !
Can you imagine how a full dj setup with turntables
translates the bumps and skits of uneven roadsurfaces -hehe.
Suddenly it was a very physical and demanding
duty holding the decks down and even in the rubber
hangup as to get the records to play evenly and absorb
uneven surfaces.
Partybusses are the bomb.
Sunny afternoons, kegs, nice music and enthusiatic people -
I will go for that anytime !
But to get back to the thread, my girlfriend
and I went to see Sarah Jones as part of
a slamfestival featuring her fianceé Steve Colman,
StaceyAnn Chin, Michael Lee Burgess and Taylor
Mali.
The performance was called Surface transit and
was build around a number of characters, who each
performed the poetry of Sarah Jones.
She entered the stage as a very old, dirty baglady.
Complete with gnawling voice, crooked back and
a - from a mediocre point of view - generally
unappealing presence, and left it as a victorious
poet challenging FCC with a new poem: Notes on FCC *
The characters during her performance included the young
collegegirl, the insecure woman and three- four
others.
It really was a very intense and enthusiastic performance
in between acting, hip-hop and performance.
Definately a night to remember IMHO.
Yours groovefully
Dj Wax , Cph
Links:
Catch a glimpse of Your revolution.
The show that evening - edited for Danish radio though.
http://www.dr.dk/kultur/PlayMedia.asp?ClipID=2173%20
Support her act
www.yourrevolutionisbanned.com
* Notes on the FCC
this is a poem
you will not let radio play
it's indecent
you will shout
sheesh, the f-word!
you will say
and hide your daughters' eyes
from feminism
'fight facism!'
freedom of expression
your mighty hand
reserved for fist-shaking
and for slapping
finger-wagging fines
on folks for rapping
or for making too much noise
if you're female--
that's for boys!
don't believe in regulations
that support progressive stations
but when those repressed cry foul
you chirp
'my daddy's Colin Powell!'
so Michael, you're a big boy there
in your federal high Chair
and as the airwaves choke
on Rupert Murdoch's cigar smoke
and the one-trick tv market swells
with Time Warner's ethics A(w)OL
and the corporate interest's balm
slathered on by Viacom
no longer silences the voices
dissenting from the lack of choices
oh say, the FCC
by the dawn of
greedy media-giant blight
will crawl out from under its Bush
and read this country's constitution
and tucking its indecent tales
between its thighs
get out of the way
of this revolution
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----- Original Message -----
From: Velanche Stewart <vstewart@calpoly.edu>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 7:16 AM
Subject: Sarah Jones interview
>
> I'm listening to an interview with Sarah Jones via KCRW's web site. She
> talks with Garth Trinidad on his show "Chocolate City," and yes there's
> quite a bit she has to say about her poem "Your Revolution" being banned
> by the FCC. You can find the Real Audio link here:
>
> http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=cc&air_date=8/22/01&tmplt_type=show
>
> --
> Velanche Stewart
> vstewart@calpoly.edu
> Linux, baby!
>
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