Final send-off for loveable Aberdeen anarchist, punk singer Dod Copland

From The Press and Journal

The funeral of Dod ‘ACAB’ Copland – one of Aberdeen’s best known personalities – will take place on Friday, August 5.

The former frontman of punk band Toxik Ephex, popular piper and ‘weel kent’ city centre busker passed away on Thursday July 28 after a period of illness aged 59.

The Untold Story of Chumbawamba with Dunstan Bruce

from The Final Straw

Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more to him and that band than that one song. For the hour we touch on some of the band’s 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Dunstan’s recently finished documentary “I Get Knocked Down: The Untold Story of Chumbawamba” and his accompanying one man show “Am I Invisible Yet?, aging and the battle for relevance, staying involved in politics and more.

Penny Rimbaud Interview: "I influence myself the most when it comes to anarchism"

March 5, 2022
It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2022/03/penny-rimbaud-interview.html

Penny Rimbaud is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. One of the most prolific punk pioneers is still very active these days. Together with Martin ‘Youth’ Glover they recorded a collaboration album ‘Corpus Mei’, out via One Little Independent Records.

Albums Against the Invasion by the ABC Musical Solidarity Group

Shortly after the first bombs started falling on Ukrainian cities in the
invasion by Russian forces, anti-authoritarian musicians around the
world began collaborating with members of Anarchist Black Cross
collectives to respond. Now, two compilation albums have been released
to raise money for anarchists fighting the invasion on the front lines
in Ukraine, and behind the lines in Russia.

https://abcmusicalsolidarity.bandcamp.com/

25 years ago, Chumbawamba smuggled anarchist ideals onto the U.S. pop charts

These days, countless copies of Tubthumper line used CD stores across the country while the real message of “Tubthumping” is still lost on nostalgic 40-somethings on their fifth or sixth whiskey drink, vodka drink, lager drink, or cider drink.

How Chumbawamba Tricked Everyone into Thinking ‘Tubthumping’ Was a Pop Song

And so, perhaps now more than ever, we need a song about the resistance and resilience of the working class. We need “Tubthumping” as a reminder of the radical potentials of camaraderie — maybe only then we can escape the tyranny of capitalism and the One Percent.

Introducing ‘Distroism Now!,’ a New Monthly Podcast

From It's Going Down

Distroism Now! is a new monthly podcast on It’s Going Down. Each episode is hosted by a different distro, and the style, length and content of each episode is whatever the hosts want it to be. At the end of each episode, the host nominates a new distro to do the next episode.

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