Showing posts with label Attila the Stockbroker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attila the Stockbroker. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2008

'NOTHING but Wagner?'

It'll be John Cooper Clarke riffing about it next week but for this week it's Attila the Stockbroker - with a hat tip to Kirsty MacColl, perhaps? - who has his take on that leaked list:

  • 'There’s A Man Down Our Road Who’s A Nazi!'
  • Thursday, September 25, 2008

    Attila the Gloater

    That's gloater, not goater.

    And why not. Man City may have the big time charlie aspirations for the near future, but last night's defeat to Brighton in the League Cup must have really hurt. It'll be a good few years before City can even begin to kid themselves on that the League Cup doesn't matter for them. Nice to see that Celtic might-have-been, Adam Virgo, scored one of the decisive penalties.

    Attila the Gloater? Noted Brighton fan, Attila the Stockbroker, celebrates the victory with considered ill-grace over at his MySpace blog. Yep, why not.

    Saturday, November 24, 2007

    The 'March of the Levellers' trilogy

    Download of the Day

    Good man that he is, Attila the Stockbroker has made his The 'March of the Levellers' trilogy available for download over at his MySpace page.

    In Mr Stockbroker's own words:

    "The 'March of the Levellers' trilogy ('March Of The Levellers', 'The Diggers' Song', 'The World Turned Upside Down') is the centrepiece of my live sets with my band Barnstormer and was released in 1996 on our first album 'The Siege of Shoreham'. The first section is an instrumental of mine. The second is an arrangement of the words of Gerrard Winstanley, leader of the Diggers, the radical sect who came to prominence at the end of the 1640s and who could be described as the first English socialists. The rap in the middle is my brief history of the movement. The third is our version of Leon Rosselson's wonderful song about the Diggers, brought to prominence by the version done by Billy Bragg on the B side of his 'Between The Wars' single."

    For myself, Dick Gaughan's version of 'The World Turned Upside Down' will always be the definitive version of that song, but I like his souped up version of it, and 'The Diggers' Song' is excellent.

    Must be played on repeat and at high volume.