NEWS UPDATE – Keefy signs up Ed Keazor’s Collective for first of his secret gigs.
Lagos; ‘Afro-Funk ‘at Keefy’s with ‘The Lagos Afrobeat Collective”.
No More Confined in Chiswick. The Final Blog.
In my final Blog of the Chiswick Confined / My Corona Series I allow myself a rant about some of the nasty elements in British politics before calming down to saying thanks for reading one of the 160 or so blogs, to acknowledge my fortune in being able to shelter from Covid in a place with so many parks and gardens and sign off with two special pieces of music.
Chiswick Confined – Getting Back To Live Music
Clinging to hope that we will continue to enjoy new found freedoms I am relishing the opportunity for live music again, prompting the question ‘why does The Devil have all the best tunes’?
This will be the pen-ultimate blog of this series. It started as a means of documenting my lock down and as I will explain next week, it is time to move on.
Stay. Don’t Go
#staydontgo #mentalhealthawareness #nhs
Plundered History. Stolen Culture (part two) Seeking The Truth
The second part of this blog exploring my post-covid reading comes out on International Museum Day. My recommended books question how the narrative around artifacts, publically displayed or hidden in private collections, needs to be rewritten to reflect the violent colonial looting that enabled the creation of western museums.
I am Reading Again ! Plundered History. Stolen Culture. (Part One.)
Inspired by a burst of post-Covid reading here are three books that have challenged me to consider cultural & religious items plundered during colonial & other conflicts but now gathering dust unseen in Museums & Galleries. The British Museum can only put some one percent of their items on display at any one time. Some artifacts, their loss still mourned by indigenous cultures, are still being sold immorally to wealthy collectors at public auction.
“MeRadio” Live. Shut Up & Listen.
Feel free to call into Keith’s new radio Phone in programme where he has an extensive range of guests who he agrees with. In line with current industry practice this programme is designed to reinforce your prejudices at the expense of anyone else’s prejudices. (Err, I think that’s how it works?)
I like my beer chilled but this is harsh.
T S Eliot might have thought April was a cruel month but was he sitting shivering in a pub garden looking into a warm but empty inside at the time?
Grateful & mellow with a touch of funk.
Saturday was my second jab and the sun was shining. I decided this weekend to ignore royal funerals, politics and other bad news and count my blessings. Sometimes you just should.
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A book. A Column, Another book. A blog. There is too much racism, injustice, environmental damage, hypocrisy and the like out there to stay silent. So I am not going to. Because I can – and I care enough to want to.
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Outsider Inside.
Having harboured a desire to write for half a lifetime, BusinessDay gave me the opportunity with a weekly column. In 2007 these comments on Nigerian business, politics and society were collected and published. Many of them are as relevant to day as they were then.
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