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London can be a crazy place.
Great that we've got TV coverage this time. The response to our performance in 2006 really pushed for that. Yeah.... "London Undersound" comes out on October 13th, Electric Proms the 24th and then a full scale uk and European tour ( ). Feels exciting here in the city.
But then again.....
London can be a crazy place.
Today I'm hearing all this stuff on the news about the inquest over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and I feel.... well.... Pretty sick really. I mean, how does it work that a totally innocent man gets shot seven times in the head by the police and they call it "an accident" on TV? Today the judge said the inquest was a fact-finding exercise and "not a forum to determine culpability or compensation, still less to dispense punishment".
Why not?
How come chief constable Ian Blair didn't resign over that? What happened to honour? Humanity? An innocent man got blown away on his watch....
I just don't get it. Never will...
I'm working on the music for a Brazilian film about Jean Charles tomorrow and the album starts with a track referencing him....
If he can't get any justice I just hope he gets remembered.
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The trouble is that human stories can be so politicised...
Sorry about that....... Been a couple of weeks since my last blog. This week I've been to Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin to talk up "London Undersound" - both the album and October/ November tour. Last week I was trying to finish off the score for a film and a videogame "milestone", along with putting down some guitar for forthcoming album. She previewed me some of the tracks. Really stunning...
Been quite strange talking about the album with journalists. We get into a lot of mad stuff about music and politics. Although everyone seems to be into the music, some feel it's quite a political album, which they also like. I feel it's about human stories. The trouble is that human stories can be so politicised...
You know, if you have someone like , one of the album collaborators and guests on the show, who was standing in front of the bus when it exploded at Tavistock square on 7/7 or was a few train carriages behind Jean Charles De Menezes when he got shot a couple of weeks later, his human experience is bound to feel politically charged... but it's still a human story. It's still a London story.
Anyway....
You don't want to get me started on politics.
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4 film scores and a videogame...
4 film scores and a videogame on the go right now plus a quick Dj set this weekend over in Stradbally, Ireland at the Electric Picnic. Life can be frantic.
Still...
This week's been a bit lazy other than the above. Normally, I wake up, run, do some weights and a bit of kickboxing or yoga if I get the time. This week I've been getting up, falling over, wandering around the house pointlessly for a bit before finally succumbing to the fact that I actually need to go back to bed.
Tomorrow morning I'm meeting the creative team who are going to be working the visuals for our EP show in Camden. They're very sharp and really seem to get the ideas behind 'London Undersound'. When you've been manically working an album for two years you want to know it's in safe hands when you're taking a step back from it. Same goes for, say, the remixes. We spent ages looking for the right guys to remix key tracks. In the end it's really paid off - ie. we just heard that Cotti's dubstep remix of 'Ek Jaan' works for Skream. Did that sentence sound English?
Anyway, blah blah 颅 I'm wrecked.Nite.
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