Tag: protest songs

The Sound of Silence: What’s Become of the Protest Song?

If the past three years haven’t been sufficient to drive home the point, then perhaps it needs restating. We live in compelling political times, the reality starker than before, the populace engrossed by the ongoing national conversation. It’s been an…

ALBUM: J.R. Harbidge – ‘The First Ray Of Light’

Rating: Releasing an acoustic album in 2018 is something of a brave choice.  Despite being involved in a field dominated almost exclusively with dance tracks and pop-rock groups, J.R Harbidge, and his debut record First Ray of Light, sets out to prove this…

WATCH: Guttfull – ‘Arsehole’

Who doesn’t love the insult ‘arsehole’? It’s hilarious. It’s a non-gender specific slight that exudes brilliant British humour and disapproval. It’s a word, I would argue, frequently used to describe politicians on a day-to-day basis. Now, we can add Donald…

Playlist: Protest Songs

It hardly seems necessary for me to go into why we’ve put together a playlist of ‘Protest Songs’ right now. So I won’t… What I will say is that it’s at times like this that we seek refuge in music…