Posts Tagged ‘Manchester’
Peter Wheeler’s alternative conference guide
24/09/2010, 03:38:42 PM‘The road to Manchester’ a mixtape
23/09/2010, 12:00:10 PMThe votes are cast. All that’s left is to jump in the car, hop on the train or fire up the battle bus for one last leadership road trip.
We asked the leadership contenders for their desert island discs. The eight tracks they couldn’t live without. They tell you something about them, about where they’re going and where they’ve been. So what better mixtape for the leadership groupies’ journey to Manchester?
Grab yourself a couple of TDK 90s, squeeze into the car share, and hit the road.
Uncut – The road to Manchester
(You need Spotify to access this playlist. Unfortunately a few songs aren’t listed.)
The candidates’ selections were:
Harry Belafonte – Scarlet Ribbons
The Beatles – Things We Said Today
The Temptations – Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
Bob Marley – Exodus
Buju Banton – Driver A
D:ream – Things Can Only Get Better
Paul Roberts – Reflections in the Water
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrika
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love – (live, Madison Square Gardens 1972)
Joshua Redman – Blues for Pat (Wish)
Herbert Howells – Like as the hart (St Paul’s cathedral choir, Hyperion)
Spandau Ballet – True (12? version)
Bach – Partita No. 2 in D Minor for violin – Itzhak Perlman, EMI
Dolly Parton – I will always love you
Handel – Ariodante Act 3, Dopo Notte atra e funesta (Janet Baker, Philips)
Billy Bragg – Saturday Boy
How soon is now – The Smiths
There is a light – The Smiths
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn – The Pogues
Dirty Old Town – The Pogues
Ten Storey Love Song – Stone Roses
Every day is like Sunday – Morrissey
Bones of you – Elbow
Protection – Massive Attack
Sting – Englishman in New York
Elvis Costello – Oliver’s Army
Fritz Kreisler – Liebeslied
Sibelius – Violin Concerto
Shostakovich – Symphony No.10
James Taylor – How sweet it is (to be loved by you)
Elton John – Your Song
The Beatles – All you need is love
Paul Robeson: The Ballad of Joe Hill
Billy Bragg: A New England
Josh Ritter: Good Man
Hard Fi: Stars of CCTV
Housemartins: Caravan of Love
Robbie Williams: Angels
A-ha: Take on Me
Beethoven: Ninth Symphony
Andy Burnham’s Desert Island Discs
27/08/2010, 02:16:24 PMIn case you missed it: Andy Burnham is a working class Roman catholic from the north of England. Not the midlands. And certainly not the south. The north.
He has no aversion to posh people. Nor to protestants. Not at all. But he is not one of them. And it is important that you know that. Weirdly, Burnham has put his ‘ordinary’ northern origins at the centre of his Labour leadership campaign.
His desert island discs are parodically reflective of this. The only tune he’ll hear in paradise which hasn’t been recorded by either a Manc or a Roman catholic or both will be “Protection”, by the Bristol “trip hop” duo, Massive Attack. (more…)
Sunday News Review
01/08/2010, 08:54:20 AMManchester #hustings
Mr Burnham, who was Health Secretary, Culture Secretary and Chief Secretary to the Treasury during his time in government, argues that Labour will only make itself electable again if it ditches the “hollow” elements of the Blair-Brown years. “We need to keep the best of New Labour and ditch some of the hollowness of it, it looked hollow and rootless at times.” Asked what he would do to counter this, he says he would ban the practise of parachuting candidates into safe seats for a start: No more “favourite sons or daughters. No more fixing shortlists at national level. This is where the style of politics really cost us electorally.” – The Telegraph
David Miliband has warned Labour could be out of power for years as he made his bid for the party leadership at the final hustings before September’s vote. The front-runner in the race to replace Gordon Brown went head-to-head with his brother Ed, Andy Burnham, Ed Balls and Diane Abbott in a question-and-answer session for 600 party members in Manchester. The former foreign secretary told the audience that each time Labour had been thrown out of government they had stayed in opposition for between 14 and 18 years. “We could be out of power for a long time; history tells us we will,” he said. “I want to buck that trend.” – The Sunday Herald
